158 OOLIN CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



very like effects in the most widely different families. 

 Thus the carrot does not belong to the same group as the 

 turnips at all, but is a similar highly evolved root of the 

 extremely unlike parsley and chervil tribe ; while the 

 beet and mangel-wurzel are equally remote by ancestry, 

 being artificial products from the goosefoot and spinach 

 line of descent. 



