Vor. II.] CARROT FAMILY. 535 
3. Zizia cordata (Walt.) DC. 
Heart-leaved Alexanders. 
(Fig. 2692.) 
Smyrnium cordatum Walt. Fl. Car. 114. 
1788. 
Zizia cordata DC. Prodr. 4: 100. 1830. 
Thaspium trifoliatum var. aplerum A. 
Gray, Man. Ed. 2,156. 1856. 
Stout, erect, branched, glabrous, or 
somewhat pubescent, 2°-3° high. Basal 
and lower leaves long-petioled, broadly 
ovate, or orbicular, undivided, deeply cor- 
date at the base, sometimes 6’ long, cre- 
nate all around; stem-leaves shorter-pet- 
ioled, ternate, or rarely quinate, the seg- 
ments ovate, or oval, crenate, or lobed; 
rays of the umbel 7-16, ascending, 1/-2 
long; fruit ovate, or oval, about 134/” 
long, and 1/’ wide. 
In woods, Connecticut to Minnesota and 
the Northwest Territory, south to Georgia, 
Missouri, Wyoming and Oregon. Ascends 
to 3500 ft. in Virginia. May-June. 
a5: CARUM L,. Spe ble 26355 175a. 
Glabrous herbs, with pinnate or ternately pinnatifid leaves, and small white or yellowish 
flowers in terminal compound umbels. Calyx-teeth minute. Petals inflexed at the apex. 
Stylopodium conic; fruit ovate,or oblong, somewhat compressed, glabrous. Carpels somewhat 
5-angled, the ribs filiform, or inconspicuous; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals and 2 on the 
commissural side. Seed dorsally flattened, its face flat or slightly concave. [Greek, caraway. ] 
About 50 species, natives of temperate and warm regions. Besides the following, about 4 
others occur in western North America. F 2 
1. Carum Carui 1. Caraway. 
Carvies. (Fig. 2693.) 
Carum Caruzi I,. Sp. Pl. 263. 1753. 
Biennial or sometimes perennial, erect, 
branching, 1°-2° high. Jower and basal 
leaves long-petioled, the uppermost nearly 
sessile, all pinnatisected into linear or 
filiform segments; bases of the petioles 
widely dilated; involucre of 1-3 linear 
bracts, or none; involucels commonly 
none; umbels 1/-2%4’ broad, 7-10-rayed; 
rays %4/-2’ long in fruit; fruit oblong, 
usually slightly curved, about 2’” long, 
the ribs conspicuous when mature. 
Occasional in waste places, Newfoundland 
to South Dakota, Pennsylvania and Colorado. 
Adventive from Europe. May-July. 
36. CICUTALL, Spl 25 5.753: 
Erect tall perennial glabrous herbs, with pinnate or pinnately compound leaves, and 
compound terminal umbels of white flowers. Involucre of few bracts, or none; involucels 
many-bracted. Calyx-teeth acute. Petals broad, the apex inflexed. Stylopodium short- 
conic; fruit ovate, or oblong, glabrous, slightly flattened laterally. Ribs corky, the lateral 
ones strongest; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed nearly 
terete. [The ancient Latin name. ] 
About 8 species, natives of the north temperate zone and Mexico. Besides the following about 
4 others occur in western North America. 
Leaf-segments lanceolate. 1. C. maculata, 
Leaf-segments narrowly linear. 2. C. bulbifera. 
