340 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
HeracteuM Sponpyiium. Common Cow-parsnip. Fre- 
quent in hedges, pastures, and bushy places. A large coarse 
weed, four or five feet high, leaves divided, rough and hairy, 
leaflets also divided, the last into three distinct parts, and all 
cut at the edges; where the leaf joins the main stalk there 
is a large swollen sheath. Umbels rather large, flowers with 
unequal petals. 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
CALYCIFLORA. APIACES. 
DAUCUS. (Carrot.) 
Generic Character. Calyx of five teeth. Petals heart-shaped. 
Many leaves to both the zxvolucres. 
Daucus carota. Wild Carrot. Common in pastures 
and borders of fields, and the origm of our garden Carrot. 
Leaves very much divided and the leaflets also. The um- 
bels of flowers are remarkable for the large involucres, which 
are formed of many long narrow leaves. 
