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rough stalks, 3 — 5-lobed bracts with linear segments, and linear 

 bracteolis^ is only a casual introduction on ballast-heaps and in 

 cornfields. 



14. Carum. — Glabrous plants with pinnate or decompound 

 leaves ; compound umbe/s of white, pink, or yellow flowers^ with 

 many, few, or no bracts and 

 bracteoks, and deeply-notched 

 petals ; and oblong /;7//V with 

 slender ridges. (Name said 

 to be derived from Caria, in 

 Asia Minor.) 



1. C. verticilldtum (Whorl- 

 ed Caraway). — An erect 

 plant, I — 2 feet high, with 

 leaves pinnately divided into 

 very many hair-like segments 

 and so crowded as to appear 

 whorled ; M?ibels flat-topped ; 

 pedicels slender; bracts and 

 bracteoles many, short, re- 

 flexed ; floivers white or pink. 

 — Wet meadows, chiefly in 

 the west; rare. Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



2. C. vidjus (Common 

 Pig-nut). — A very slender 

 plant, about a foot high, 

 bearing a few finely divided, 

 3-ternate leaves and terminal 

 umbels of white floivers. The 

 iuber^ which resembles a 

 small potato in shape, and is 

 covered by a thin, easily re- 

 movable, brown skin, is eat- 

 able, but only fit for the food 

 of the animal after which it is 

 named. The plant much resembles Carum Bulbocdstanum^ but 

 differs in its brown, not black, tuber, its smaller size, ternate, not 

 pinnate leaves, fewer or absent bracts and bracteoles, large disk 

 and erect styles. — Sandy pastures ; common. — Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



3."^ C. Cdrvi (Common Caraway). — Root spindle-shape ; stem 

 I — 2 feet high, much branched ; leaves bipinnate, cut into linear 



CARUM mAjus (Coiinnon Pig-nut). 



