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highly aromatic; leaves large, twice or thrice pinnate, with 

 numerous lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, and toothed segments ; 

 umbels terminal, not large, of 8-10 rays, without general invo- 

 lucre, the bracts of the partial ones numerous, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate ; fruits, when ripe, nearly an inch long. Mountain 

 pastures, indigenous or naturalized. Fl. May, June. 



(131) Torilis. HEDGE PARSLEY. 



T. nodosa : annual; stems procumbent or spreading, scarcely 

 a foot long ; leaves twice pinnate, with small, narrow, pointed 

 segments ; umbels forming little heads, closely sessile, opposite 

 to the leaves, composed of 2-3 exceedingly short, scarcely dis- 

 tinct rays, sometimes of a simple cluster ; fruits covered with 

 short, straight or hooked bristles. Roadsides and waste places. 

 Fl. May, June. 



T. Anthriscus : annual ; stem erect, 2-3 feet high, with 

 slender, wiry branches ; leaves once or twice pinnate, the seg- 

 ments lanceolate, pinnatifid, or coarsely toothed ; umbels on 

 long slender peduncles, of 38 rays ; involucres, both general 

 and partial, of small subulate bracts, one close under each 

 ray; fruit a small burr. Hedge Parsley. Hedges, roadsides, 

 and waste places. Fl. July, August. 



T. infesta : annual ; smaller and more spreading than the 

 last ; general involucre entirely wanting or reduced to a single 

 bract, often lanceolate ; bristles of the fruit less curved, with 

 a minute hook at the top. Cultivated and waste places. Fl. 

 July, August. 



(132) Daucus. CARROT. 



D. Carota : annual or biennial ; stem 1-3 feet high ; leaves 

 twice or thrice pinnate, with deeply three-lobed or pinnatifid, 



