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of numerous small leaflets. The umbels are large and widely 

 spread, the flowers white. The scent of the plant is somewhat 

 aromatic. 



The Garden Chervil (C. sativum), has the umbels from the 

 sides of the stem. As in the two last families, the fruit is 

 beaked, and there is no calyx. 



The third group, according to Sir J. E. Smith, comprises 

 those genera whose fruit is solid and prickly, without a beak. 

 Our British families of this kind are the Sea Holly, the Carrot, 

 the Sanicle, and the Bur and Hedge Parsley. 



The Sea Holly is one of Fanny's trophies ; it grew on the 

 bar of sand separating the Loe Pool from the ocean. Its 

 umbel is simple, and the flowers blue ; the leaves are lobed. 

 acute and thorny ; the colour a very blue or glaucous green, 

 and the veins white (Eryngium maritimum, Plate IX., fig. 3). 

 There is a Field Eryngo, with lilac flowers and bright green 

 foliage, but it is doubtfully indigenous. The Sea Holly stems 

 are preserved and make a pleasant candy. 



The Sanicle (Sanicula europsea, Plate IX., fig. 2), I have 

 gathered in woods in Somersetshire, Kent, and Yorkshire in 

 June, and I have seen the leaves, later in the summer, among 

 the herbage of woods in other counties. It is a handsome 

 plant, with dark, glossy foliage, the leaves round and cut into 

 deep lobes ; and the umbels carry their flowers so close to the 

 stem that they seemed quite globular ; the long, white stamens 

 give them a light appearance. 



We have the Wild Carrot (Caucus carota, Plate IX., fig. 8), 

 both from Kent and Cornwall. The umbel is large, but the 

 stalks in the centre are shorter than those round the margin, 

 so that the whole collection of small umbels seem to form a 

 cup, in the centre of which is one crimson flower. The leaves 

 are much divided, and the segments pointed. The root is tap- 

 shaped, doubtless the original of our garden Carrot, the utility 

 of which is patent to all. 



The Sea Carrot (D. maritima), Fanny describes as growing 



