252 UMBELLIFEILE. 



general bracts few, partial numerous. (Name, the Greek 

 for this or some allied plant.) 



23. CRITHMUM (Samphire). Fruit elliptical ; carpels 

 spongy, with 5 sharp, winged ridges ; bracts, both 

 general and partial, numerous. (Name from the Greek 

 crithe, barley, to which grain the fruit bears a fancied 

 resemblance. ) 



**** Umbels compound ; fruit of two flattened carpels, 

 which are* united by their faces, not prickly, nor 

 beaked. 



24. ANGELICA. Fruit with three sharp ridges at the 

 back of each carpel, and two at the sides, the latter ex- 

 panding into an even border ; general bracts few, or 0, 

 partial numerous. (Named angelic, from its medicinal 

 properties.) 



25. PASTINACA (Parsnep). Fruit very flat, with a 

 broad border ; carpels with 3 slender ridges on the 

 back, and 2 near the outer edge of the margin; general 

 and partial bracts, rarely more than 1 ; flowers yellow. 

 (Name from the Latin, pastus, pasture.) 



26. HERACLE"U.M (Cow Parsnep). Fruit nearly the 

 same as in Pastindca ; flowers rayed ; general bracts 

 several, soon falling off, partial numerous. (Name from 

 Hercules, who is said to have brought this, or some 

 allied plant, into use.) 



compound; fruit prickly, not beaked. 



27. DAUCUS (Carrot). Fruit slightly flattened ; car- 

 pels united by their faces, oblong ; ridges bristly, with a 

 row of prickles between ; general bracts very long, often 

 pinnatifid. (Name, the Greek name of the, plant.) 



28. CAUCALIS (Bur-Parsley). Fruit slightly flat- 

 tened ; carpels united by thin narrow edges ; ridges 

 bristly, with 1 3 rows of hooked prickles between. 

 (Name, the Greek name of the plant.) 



29. TORILIS (Hedge Parsley). Fruit slightly con- 

 tracted at the sides ; ridges of the carpels bristly, with 



