398 DAUCDS. [CLASS v. ORDER n. 



the outer ones of the radiant flowers being bifid, the rest inversely 

 heart-shaped, with a small inflexed point. Stamens with long slender 

 filaments, with ovate anthers. Styles spreading, with small obtuse 

 stigmas. Fruit oblong ovate, compressed at the back. Carpels clothed 

 with rigid bristles, which have a small hook at the extremity, the vitta: 

 beneath the secondary ridges yellowish, abounding in an aromatic oil. 

 Albumen flat in front, somewhat convex at the back. 



Habitat. Pastures and road sides, especially in a gravelly soil ; 

 frequent. 



Biennial ; flowering in June and July. 



An extremely variable plant with regard to its hairiness and the size, 

 and the more or less divided lanceolate segments of the leaves. We 

 have specimens quite smooth, with broadly linear segments to the 

 leaves, having quite a different appearance to the common state of the 

 plant, but it is not otherwise different, and was found in a damp situa- 

 tion, which is probably the cause, as we find the contrary to be 

 the case with plants grown in a dry sandy soil ; they are then 

 more rigid in their foliage, and profusely clothed with hairs, and be- 

 tween these two extremes all varieties may be met with. 



The root is well known when cultivated, and by cultivation attains 

 to a very large size. It is used for a variety of domestic purposes, is 

 nutritive and wholesome, and is found to be profitably grown as food 

 for cattle in a deep rich soil. The whole plant, especially the seeds, 

 are diuretic, and are considered useful in gravelly and calculous 

 affections. 



2. D. marit'imus, With. (Fig. 458.) Sea side Carrot. Bristles of the 

 fruit flattened; leaves tri-pinnate; leaflets pinnatifid, with short lanceo- 

 late acute segments, fleshy; umbels without abortive flowers in the 

 centre, convex when in seed, 



English Botany, t. 2560. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 40. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 136. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 113. 



Root slender, tapering, whitish. Stem erect or spreading, branched 

 from the base, roundish, coarsely striated, thickly clothed with white 

 hairs pointed downwards, from ten to eighteen inches high, leafy. 

 Leaves on rough channeled footstalks, dilated and striated at the base, 

 two or three times pinnated, with short broad acute or rounded seg- 

 ments, somewhat fleshy, and more or less profusely scattered over with 

 hairs on the under side, somewhat shining. Umbels terminal, and on 

 short lateral pedicles, the general of stout striated unequal spreading 

 rays, without any abortive flowers in the centre, the partial of nume- 

 rous short unequal ones. General involucre of numerous roughish 

 pinnated segments, spreading, closing round the umbel when in seed, 

 partial of numerous linear or pinnated roughish. segments, also closing 

 round the umbcllules when in seed. Flowers white, or pale rose 



