106 DIALYPETALOUS EXOGENS 



Hob. Gardens, &c. Nat. .of Europe. Fl. June. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. The var. CRISPUM, DC. or Curled Parsley, is also frequent in 

 gardens. 



164. CA X RUM, L. 



[Said to be from Caria, the native country of the plant.] 

 Fruit ovate-oblong; stylopodium depressed; carpels with 5 filiform 

 equal ribs ; carpophore bifid ; v ittae single. Mostly perennials : 

 smooth ; leaves pinnately dissected ; segments multifid ; involucre and 

 involucels various, sometimes wanting; flowers white. 



1. C. CARUI, L. Leaves bipinnatifid, the segments linear ; involucre 

 1-leaved or none; involucels none. 

 CARIA N CARUM. Common Caraway. 



Biennial* (perennial, DC.). Stem about 2 feet high, branched. Radical leaves 

 rather large ; stem-leaves multifid. Fruit oblong, or elliptic, often oblique at apex. 

 Hat>. Gardens. Nat. of Europe. Fl. June. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. Cultivated, occasionally, for its highly aromatic fruit. 



165. FCEMIC'UtlTM, Adam. 



[Latin, diminutive of Foenum, hay, from a similarity of odor.] 

 Fruit elliptic-oblong, subterete ; stylopodium conical ; carpels with 5 

 prominent obtuse ribs; vittae single. Perennial? (biennial, DC.) : 

 smooth ; leaves pinnatindly decompound ; segments filiform ; involu- 

 cre and involucels none ; flowers yellow. 



1. F. vuLoXRE, Gaertn. Stem terete at base; leaves biternately 

 dissected, the segments subulate-linear, elongated ; umbels many- 

 rayed. 

 COMMON F(ENICULUM. Fennel. Garden Fennel. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet high, branching, striate-grooved, purplish-green and somewhat 

 glaucous. Segments of the leaves an inch to an inch and half long, almost filiform, 

 the subdivisions often dichotomous; common petioles much dilated, sheathing, 

 produced into 2 marginal lobes at summit. Umbels of numerous unequal rays. 

 Hab. Gardens, &c. Native of Europe. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The whole plant is highly aromatic. Those who kept Sees, 

 in former years, were much in the practice, when those insects 

 twarmed (after ringing the frying-pan, to make them settle !) of 

 rubbing the inside of the Hive with this fragrant herb, under the 

 impression that the odor would attach them to their new domicil. 

 The F. dulce, or Sweet Fennel with the stem subcompressed at 

 base, and the umbels fewer-rayed is sometimes, though rarely, to 

 be seen in our gardens. 



SUBORDER II. CAMPYLOSPER'MAE. 



Inner face of the carpels grooved lengthwise, or the margins curved in. 



166. CHAEROPIIYI/L.FM, L. 



[Gr. C/iairo, to gladden, and PhyUon, a leaf; the leaves having a pleasant odor.] 

 Fruit linear-oblong, slightly beaked, contracted at the sides ; carpels 

 with 5 equal obtuse smooth ribs ; channels with single vittae. Leaves 

 decompound, the segments lobed, or toothed; involucre none, or 

 few-leaved ; involucels many-leaved ; flowers chiefly white. 



