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UMBELLIFER^ 



iobes; umbels rather large and irregular, with rarely more than 

 one bract ; flowers white. The aromatic carpels are the well- 

 known " caraway seeds." It is a naturalised escape from culti- 

 vation. — Fl. June, July. Biennial. 



4. C. Bulbocdstanum (Tuberous Caraway). — Root black, 



tuberous, as large as a 

 chestnut ; stem erect, 

 I — 2 feet high, much 

 branched ; leaves 2—3- 

 pinnate ; leaflets cut into 

 few slender lobes ; bracts 

 and bracteoles many, 

 small, narrow ; flowers 

 white. Chalky fields in 

 Cambridgeshire, Bed- 

 fordshire, Hertfordshire, 

 and Buckinghamshire, 

 and so abundant about 

 Baldock, in Hertford- 

 shire, that "the farmers 

 turn their pigs upon the 

 fallows to feed upon the 

 roots." {^Hooker aftd 

 Arnoit.) — Fl. June, 

 July. Perennial. 



15. SisoN (Stone 

 Parsley). — Differing 

 from Cdrum chiefly in 

 having less divided 

 cauline leaves and very 

 short, club-shaped vittce. 

 (Name, the Greek for 

 some allied plant.) 



I . S. Ambmum 

 (Stonewort, Stone Pars- 

 ley). — A slender plant, 

 much like Petrosel'mum 

 segetum^ 2 — 3 feet high, with a wiry, branched stem ; pinnate or 

 bipinnate leaves with narrow leaflets ; umbels few-rayed, irregular ; 

 bracts 2 — 4, subulate ; secondary umbels small ; bracteoles 2 — 4 ; 

 flowers cream-coloured, very small. — Damp places on a chalky 

 soil. The whole plant has a nauseous smell. — Fl. August, 

 September. Biennial. 



sfuM ERfiCTUM {Narrow-lfazied Water- Pars nip). 



