22. UMBELLIFER^. 



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involucre and iiivolucol of 3 

 bracts, those of the involucel 

 fruit ; calyx-teeth absent ; fruit 

 pressed laterally, studded with 

 little white tubercles, concealing 

 the ribs; carpophoi-e undivided. 



Near Dry Creek. — Sept. -Nov. — 

 Mediterranean region. 



2. Daucus, L. 



1. Daucus Carota, L. 



Carrot. Erect, bristly annual or 

 biennial, with a taproot which 

 becomes large and fleshy under 

 cultivation ; leaves soft, the lower 

 ones bipinnatisect with oval or ob- 

 long pinnatifid segments ; flowers 

 white or pink, the outer ones 

 with radiating lower petals ; 

 umbels large, of 30-60 slender 

 rays, the outer ones longest and 

 connivent.in fruit; bracts of the 

 involucre pinnatisect, those of 

 the involucel linear, the outer 



5 linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved 



exceeding the flowers and 



small, subglobular, coni- 



Bupleurum semicom- 

 positum. 





ones trifid ; calyx with o short 

 erect teeth ; fruit ovoid, slightly 

 compressed dorsally, the 4 second- 

 ary ribs of each carpel promin- 

 ent, each bearing 1 row of long 

 prickles, the 3 primary ribs bear- 

 ing short, divergent bristles; 

 vittas 1 under each secondary 

 rib and 2 at the commissure ; 

 carpophore forked. 



Mount Lofty Range. — Nov.- 

 April. — Europe ; western Asia. 



3. Caucalis, Hoffmann. 



1. Caucalis nodosal Scop. 

 Procumbent, rough-villous an- 

 nual ; leaves bipinnatisect, seg- 

 ments oval-oblong, with linear, 

 entire or incised lobes; flowers 

 white or pink, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, in compact subglobular 

 umbels on a short peduncle 

 opposite to the leaf; umbellules 

 2-3, sessile on peduncle or on 

 very short rays or reduced to a cluster of flowers ; in- 

 volucre none ; involucel with linear bracts longer than 



Daucus Carota. 



