DaUCUS.] LXVIII. UMBELLIFER^ (hIERn). 25 



the middle of the face, but not deeply sulcate. — Annual or biennial 

 herbs with pinnatel}'^ decompound leaves. Umbels regularly compound ; 

 involucre and involucels of several dissected or linear leaves, 



A large genus, chiefly Mediterranean, and extending to temperate Asia and North 

 At"'ica, America, and Australia. 



Umbels stalked 1. D. Carota. 



Umbels sessile 2. />. abysainlca. 



1. D. Carota, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 211. Erect, hispid, biennial. 

 Leaves 2 or 3 times pinnate, ^'\t\\ small or linear acute seg-ments. 

 Umbels terminal on long- peduncles of many crowded primary and se- 

 condary rayfi; involucre of many crowded leaflike bracts, and involucels 

 of many linear or trifid acute bracteoles. Fruit J in. long; ; spines of 

 the fruit shorter than its thickness. — Daucus ahyssmimm, C. A. Mey. in 

 Index Hort. Petrop. ix. 68. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schlmper ! fl. and fr. December. 



Occurs also widely distributed in Europe, temperate Asia and India, N. Africa, and 

 introduced in N, America and Australia. 

 Abyssinian name, Kuerta adagi. 



2. D. abyssinicuSy Ilochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 331, non 

 C. A. Mey. Annual, J— 1 ft. high, erect, with scattered setose hairs, 

 but shining. Stem terete, striate. Leaves oblong- or ovate, the lower 

 ones on long petioles terete except at the clasping base; segments 

 linear-acute. Umbels sessile, opposite the leaves, of few- often l-flowered 

 rays. Fruiting rays \-^ in. long. Involucre of linear-acute bracts ; 

 petals whitish-rose colour. Fruit with minutely glochidiate spines 

 on the secondary rays longer than the thickness of the fruit, ^ in. long 

 by i^y in. thick; spines y*^ in. long. — Caucalis abyssinica^ Hochst. in 

 Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sec. i. 338. Durieim abyssinica,. Boiss. in Ann. Sc. 

 iVat. ser. 3, ii. 51. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schiniper! Fr. October. 



21. CAUCALIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 928. 



Calyx-teeth rather prominent, lanceolate- acute or obsolete. Petals 

 usually unequal, oval, w4th inflected acumen ; stylopods thick. Fruit 

 ovoid," somewhat compressed laterally and narrowed at the commissure; 

 5 primary ridges not prominent, filiform or wider, covered with short 

 appressed bristles ; 4- secondary ridges predominating, armed with 

 longer patent bristles, glochidiate or forked at the end. Vittai solitary 

 under secondary ridges. Carpophore undivided or 0. Seed subterete, 

 deeply sulcate on the face. — Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves piu- 

 nately decompound. Umbels of few rays or subcapitate small, terminal 

 or opposite the leaves. Involucre of 0, 1, or several bracts; involucels 

 of many bracteoles. Flowers white or dark purple. 



A moderate sized genus, chiefly found in the Mediterranean region, but some apecies 

 are widely scattered over the world. 



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