156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



of the parks, Oxford ; in a hedge ahout half a mile from Eton, and 



near Isleworth. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 



Stem erect, 1 to 4 feet high, furrowed, retrorsely hispid, slightly 

 branched towards the top. Umbels of 5 to 10 hispid unequal rays, 

 -J to 1 inch long. Pedicels much surpassed by the leaves of the 

 involucels. Elowers ^ inch across, white. Cremocarp ^ inch long, 

 covered with small tubercles, from which short stiff hairs are pro- 

 duced ; border continuous, not beaded. Plant dark-green, hispid. 



Great Hart-wort. 



Freucli, Tonlyle eleve. German, Grosster Zirmet. 



TuiBE VII.— DAUCINEiE. 



Cremocarp dorsally compressed ; columella distinct ; mericarps 

 flattened from back to front, with 5 primary ridges, 3 on the back, 

 filiform and hairy, the lateral pair on the face of the mcricarp, and 

 4 secondary elevated prickly ridges. Seed flat on the inner face. 

 Elowers in regular umbels. 



GENUS XXX— 1> A U C U S. Linn. 



Calyx-limb of 5 teeth. Petals obovate, notched, with an inflexed 

 lobe. Cremocarp oblong or oval, slightly compressed from back 

 to back of the mericarps ; columella free, undivided, 2-cleft or 

 bipartite ; mericarps compressed from back to front, with 5 primary 

 filiform bristly ridges, of which 3 are on the back and 2 on the face 

 of the seed, and 4i prominent winged secondary ridges, with the 

 wing divided into a single row of soft spines ; vittse solitary, under 

 the secondary ridges. Involucre generally of numerous pinnatifid 

 leaves. 



Herbs with pinnately decompound leaves, and white, pink, or 

 yellowish flowers. 



The name of this genus of plants is supposed to be derived from laiu} (daio), I 

 warm. 



SPECIES I— DAUCUS C A ROT A. Linn. 

 Plates DCXV. DCXVI. 



Stem hispid. Leaves bi- or tri-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid. 

 Involucre of numerous pinnatifid or 3-clcft leaves, about as long as 

 the umbel -rays in flower, exceeding them in bud; involucels 

 scarious, with an herbaceous midrib. Cremocarp oblong-ovoid. 



