CAEEOT. 



Daucus Carota. Nat. Ord., 

 Umbellifera:. 



NY one who is at all familiar 

 with the look of the garden 

 carrot will have no difficulty 

 in recognising its wild pro- 

 genitor, for though culti- 

 vation has done much to 

 improve the plant, its main 

 features, the richly - cut 

 leaves and densely-clustered 

 blossoms, remain unaltered. 

 When we pull the plant up, 

 we " make assurance doubly 

 sure," for the well-known 

 odour of the root settles the 

 point beyond all further 

 doubt. The wild carrot is 

 very generally distributed 

 throughout Britain, on the borders of fields and by the 

 road-sides, and seems to thrive more especially near the 

 sea. It may be found in flower throughout the whole 

 of the summer. The root is spindle-shaped, slender, firm, 

 somewhat tough and woody, yellowish in colour, pene- 

 trating some distance into the ground, and having only 

 a few lateral rootlets. The leaves are very finely 



