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10. Sison (Stone Parsley) 



I. 5. atnotnum (Hedge Stone Parsley). A slender plant 2-3 feet 

 high, with a wiry, branched stem and pinnate, cut leaves, the leaflets 

 of the upper ones being very narrow. The general umbels consist 

 of about 4 rays, with 2-4 bracts at the base; the partial 

 umbels are small, and have 4 bracts at the base of each; the 

 flowers are cream-coloured and very 

 small. The whole plant has a nauseous 

 smell. The only British species. Damp, 

 chalky places ; common in the south of 

 England, becoming rarer farther north. 

 Fl. August. Biennial. 



11. .ZEgopodium (Gout-weed) 



1. JE. podagraria (Common Gout- 

 weed). A common and very trouble- 

 some garden weed, with a creeping root, 

 large, thrice ternate leaves, and white 

 flowers. The stems grow about a foot 

 high. The leaves are sometimes boiled 

 and eaten, but have a strong and very 

 disagreeable 



Perennial. 



flavour. Fl. May, June. 



jEgopodium Podagraria 

 (Common Gout-weed) 



12. Carum (Caraway) 



1. C. canti (Common Caraway). Root spindle-shaped ; stem 

 much branched, about 2 feet high ; the leaves twice pinnate, with 

 leaflets cut into very narrow segments ; the flowers are white, and 

 grow in rather large umbels, with rarely more than 1 bract, and 

 that at the base of the general umbel. Occurs in many places as 

 an escape from cultivation. Produces the well-known caraway 

 seeds. Fl. June. Biennial. 



2. C. vcrticillatiim (Whorled Caraway). Smaller than the last, 

 with pinnate leaves, the leaflets of which are divided to the base 

 into very numerous hair-like segments, and are so crowded as to 

 appear whorled. Very rare, except in the west of Scotland. 

 Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3. C. bulbocastanum (Bulbous Caraway). Root tuberous; stem 

 1-2 feet high ; leaves twice or thrice pinnate ; bracts of the partial 

 and general umbel numerous ; flowers white. A local plant, so 

 abundant in the chalk district near Baldock, in Hertfordshire, that 

 " the farmers turn their pigs upon the fallows to feed upcr the 

 roots." Hooker and Arnott. Found in chalky fields in one or 

 two other districts, but very local. -Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



