Ammodaucus. — Daucus. fal 
at the base, .bi- or tripinnatisect, lobes linear, thick, obtuse or 
mucronulate. Umbels opposit the leaves, 1—3-radiate. Involucre with 
2—3 bracts. Umbellules many-radiate. Calyx-lobes with lanceolate 
tooths, subulate at the apex. Styles half as long as the stylopode. 
Fruit 5—6 mm broad, setiferous. — Flow. April to May. 
D. 1. Between Alexandria and Siwa. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. 
403. (26.) Daucus Linn. 
Calyx-teeth acute; petals unequal, obovate, with inflected acumen, 
deeply emarginate, or the larger ones bilobed. Stylopodia shortly 
conical. Fruit ovoid, somewhat compressed laterally or subterete; 
5 primary ridges not prominent, with 2 faint rows of short thin patent 
hairs; 4 secondary ridges very prominent, armed with long spines 
hooked at the end or glochidiate. Vittae solitary under the secondary 
ridges, and 2 contiguous in the commissural face of each mericarp. 
Carpophore undivided. Seed sub- or 7/,-terete, somewhat hollowed 
in the middle of the face, but not deeply sulcate. —- Annual or 
biennial herbs with pinnately decompound leaves. Umbels regularly 
compound; involucre and involucels of several dissected or linear leaves. 
A large genus, chiefly Mediterranean, and extending to temperate Asia 
and North Africa, America, and Australia. 
A. Prickles often connate for one-fourth their length . 1. D. Broteri. 
B. Prickles short-connate at the base, barbed. Leaves 
dissected into minute lobes. 
I. Bracts of the involucre linear, entire or trifid . 2. D. litoralis. 
II. Bracts of the inyolucre linear-setaceous, setulose 3. D. guttatus. 
Ill. Bracts of the involucre pinnately dissected into 
Seboceous obese. CaMetiee eee. oH ack] Bade ES 4. D. aureus. 
C. Prickles free at the base. Lobes of the leaves often 
termi long yorntmores .belsris itl tenis els fra. 5 5. D. Carota. 
1007a. (1.) Daucus Broteri Ten. Syll. Plant. (1831), p. 591. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. Il, p. 1073. -— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., 
Supplem. p. 759. — An annual plant, 10—40 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, bristly, divaricately branching from the base. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate in outline, 2-pinnately dissected into minute, ob- 
long-linear, entire or 2—3-fid lobules. Umbels small; rays 5 mm 
to 2 cm long; bracts of the involucre, linear, trifid, of the involucel 
linear, subulate, simple or three-forked; fruits 6 mm long, 4 mm 
broad; ribs somewhat remote; prickles longer than the diameter of 
the seed. — Flow. March. 
M. p. El-‘Arish. — N. d. Mahsama. 
Also known from Sinai and Syria. 
