130 | ORD. VI. Umbellata. 
- DAUCUS CAROTA. WILD CARROT, or BIRD’s NEST. | 
SYNONYM4A. Daucus sylvestris. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
Pastinaca sylvestris tenuifolia Dioscoridis, vel Daucus officinarum, | 
Bauh. Pin. p. 151. Daucus vulgaris. Raii Synop. p. 218. fy 
Pastinaca sylvestris tenuifolia. Gerard Emac. p. 1028. Park. 
Theat. p. 901. Raii Hist. p. 465. Daucus involucris cavis, com- 
_ munibus pinnatis, peculiaribus lineari lanceolatis. Hall. Stirp. 
Helv. n. 746. Daucus Carota. Huds. Ang. p. 114.» Lightf. 
Scot. p. 156. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 274. Relhan. Cantab. p. 
112. Smith. Brit. 300. Ic. Flor. Dan. p. 723. 
« Pastinaca tenuifolia sativa radice lutea. C. Bauh. 
Yellow Garden Carrot.. 
£ Pastinaca tenuifolia sativa radice atrorubente. C. Bauh. 
fe Red Garden Carrot. Aiton. Hort, Kew. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 333. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. subradiate, omnes hermaphrodite. 
Fructus pilis hispidus. 
Sp. Ch. D. seminibus hispidis, petiolis subtus nervosis. 
THE root is biennial, large, spindle-shaped, fleshy, and yellowish : 
the stalk is round, erect, branched, furrowed, hairy, and rises about 
two feet in height: the leaves are large, and at the root many times ) : 
pinnated ; those on the stalk are gradually smaller towards the top, 
and cut into irregular pinnulz, which on the upper side are of a 
deep green colour: the leaves are all somewhat hairy, and stand | 
upon footstalks, which are nerved on the under side: the umbels are oe 
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