548 TENTAKDRIA DIGYNIA 



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SANICULA. Gen. pl. 458. 



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Umbell(C confertae, sub- | Umbels crowded, some* 

 capitatae. Finidus acii- I what capitate. Fruit a- 

 leatus. Flores disci abor- j culeate. Flowers of the 

 tientes. disk abortive. 



1. Marilandica. 



S. foliis digitalis, foliolis | Leaves digitate, leaf- 

 olilongis, incisis ; floribiis | lets oblong, incised ; fer- 

 fertilibus sessilibus, sub- | tile flowers sessile, gene- 

 ternis, sterilibus pedicel- rally by thi 



latis, niimerbsis. Pursh, j footstalks 



l.p. 191. 



Sp. pl. 1, p. 1367. Walt p. 113. Mich. 1. p. 162. 



Perennial. Stem herbaceous;, erect, 2 — 3 feet high, terete, very 



abrous. Leaves alternate, on long footstalks, 3 parted to the base; 



e lateral lobes more slightly 2 parted ; all of the lobes notched, 

 toothed, glabrous. Flowers in umbels somewhat capitate, compourid*' 

 ly dichotomous, with a simple ray in each division. Universal twro* 

 tucrum 2 leaved, many parted; partial many leaved (8 — 10), smalL 

 Calyx 5 jointed, persistent. Corolla 5 petalled ; petals linear, ob-» 

 tuse, furrowed, white, inflected to the base, inserted on the summit 

 of the germ. Filaments as long as the petals, inserted between them. 

 Germ inferior, muricate. Styles 2, short, reflected. Stigmas simple^ 

 obtuse. Fruit oval, divisible in 2. Seed flat on one side, on the 

 other roughened with 4 double rows of hooked bristles. 



Grows in dry, shaded soils; common. 



Flowers May — August. 



DAUCUS. Gen. PL. 466. * 



Corolla subradiatse. I Cor oWa somewhat rad- 

 Flosculi disci abortivi. I iate. Flowers of the disk 

 Fructus pilis hispidus. j abortive. Fruit hispid. 

 1. Carota. 



D. seminibus hispidis ; | Seed hispid ; petioles 

 petiolis subtus nervosis; | nerved on the under side; 

 foJiorum laciniis angusto- 1 segments of the leaf 

 liiiearibus, aeutis. La \ row, linear, acute. 

 Blarck. 



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%). pl. 1. p. 1389. Walt. p. 115. Porsh 



