FKNTANDHIA DlHYNIAi 



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This Valuable and well known vegetable, a native of the dry plalng 

 'of Europe, is becoming completely naturalized in this country, I 

 have found it growing in the pine barrens of Effini;ham and Screvelx 



counties, Georgia: and Dr. Macbride informs me Re lias seen it 

 •imUar situations in St Johns. 



in 



Flowers ApriU— May. 



Carrot. 



S. PusiLLus. Mich. 



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D. retrorsum-hispidus ; I Retrorsely hispid ; leaf- 

 foliolis laciiiiis minimis, | lets with the segments 



very small, linear lanceo- 



um- 



lineari-Ianceolatis 



bellis parvis ; semii)ibus | late ; umbels small ; seeds 



8-fariam cristato-murica- muricate with 8-crested 



tis. 



vibs. 



Mich. 1. p. 164. Pursh, 1. p. 192. 



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Stem 12 — 18 inches. I-eaty^ very much dissected ; the sejrment's 

 Biinute. Seeds large for the size of the plant, with 8-crested ribs ; 

 tbe^segments acute and doubly barbed at the summit 



St. John's; Dr. Macbride. Savannah: Do 

 Baldwin. 



"^flowers 



Grows in dry soils 



AMMI. Gen. pl, 467, 



Involucra pinnatifida. I Involucrums pinnatifid. 

 CoroUce radiatse. omnes j Flowers radiate, ali fer- 

 herniaphroditae. Fructits \ tile. Fruit smooth, 

 laevis. 



1. Capillaceum. 

 A. foliis omnibus capil 



semmi- 



laceo-multiiidis 



busglabris,sulcatis:caule I brous, furrowed 



4 



All the leaves capilla- 

 y, many cleft ; seeds gla- 



: stem 



ab imb divarlcato, ramo 



&o. 



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from the base brandling 

 branches expanded. 



Mich. I. p. 164. Pursh, l.p. 192. 

 A. majus, Walt. p. 113. 



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Annual. Stem 1- 



glab 



-2 feet high, slightly angled anfl furrowed, cen^ 



Leaves alternate, compoumlly many parted ; leaf- 

 Ms 3-4 parted at base, manv parted at Ae summit; segments all 

 linear, glabrous. Universal involucrum many leaved (6), shorter 



than the raya of the umbels : leaves pinnatifid ; partial involuemm 



