110 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Plants of various habit, generally with finely- divided leaves and 

 terminal compound umbels of white slightly radiant flowers. 



This genus of jjlants is named from the place whence it was brought and where it 

 still abounds — Caiia, in Asia INIinor. 



SPECIES I.— C A RUM VERTICIL LATU M. Koch. 



Plate DLXXXI. 



Jieick Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XXL Tab. 1873. 

 milot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1885 (bis). 

 Sison verticillatum, Lin7i. Sm. Eug. Bot. No. 395. 

 Bunium verticillatum, Gr. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 729. 



Root of thickened clavate fibres. Leaves mostly radical, sub- 

 cylindrical in outline, pinnate, with the pinnae short, divided to the 

 base into numerous setaceous linear very acute segments, sjireading 

 on all sides, so as to appear whorled. Involucre and involucel of 

 numerous lanceolate acuminate subscarious leaves. 



In moist meadows. Local, and confined to the West coast, 

 where it occurs in Wales, the Lake district, and abundantly in the 

 south-western counties of Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Root of numerous fibres, 1 to 2 inches long, increasing in width 

 towards the apex. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high, slightly branched, 

 surrounded at the base by the fibrous remains of decayed leaves. 

 Radical leaves 2 to 12 inches long, with numerous pairs of pinna? 

 split up into very slender segments, w^hicli surround the petiole, as 

 it* in whorls; lowest whorls small and distant, all slightly curving 

 towards the apex of the leaf; stem-leaves few, similar to the radical 

 ones, the upper ones very small, with dilated petioles. Umbels 

 regular, flat-topped, the rays J to 1 J inch long ; umbellules many- 

 flowered, the rays about ^ inch long ; leaves of the involucels not 

 half the length of the rays ; flowers white, ^^y inch across, slightly 

 radiant. Petals obcordatc, notched, with an inflexed point. Sta- 

 mens about as long as the petals. Cremocarp ovate-ovoid, com- 

 pressed, yellowish-brown, with the ribs paler and strongly marked ; 

 vitta? very large, filling up the entire space between the ridges ; 

 columella split about one-third of the way down. Styles curved 

 outwards, about half as long as the cremocarp. Plant glabrous 



bright-green. 



Whorled Caraway. 



French, Carum verticillc. Geruian, QuirlhlUttriger Kiimmel. 



