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DAUCUS CAROTA. 

 Wild Carrot. 



Class V. Pentandria.— 0/rfe/- II. Digynia. 



Nat. Ord. Umbellifek^. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-toothed. Petals obcordate, with 

 an indexed point, unequal. Fruit compressed at the 

 back ; carpels with five primary ridges, filiform and 

 bristly ; the four secondaiy ridges equal, more promi- 

 nent, with a single row of prickles which are slightly 

 connected at the base ; Channels under the secondary 

 ridges with single vittge. Seeds plane in front. — Invo- 

 lucres many-leaved. 



Spec. Char. Bristles of the fruit slender. Leaves tri- 

 pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, with linear-lanceolate 

 acute segments. Umbels with a solitary abortive, 

 coloured flower in the centre. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek lauKos. 



f Pastinaca tenuifolia sylvestiis, &c. Bauh. Pin. 151. Ger. 



! Em. 1028. 

 Lalin ■{ Daucus vulgaris. Rail Syn. 21 8. 



i Caucalis Carota. Stokes' Bot. Mat. Med. it. p. 64. 



L Daucus Carota. Lin. Sp. PI. 348. 

 French .... Carotte : Carotte sauvage. 

 Italian .... Carota ; Dauco. 

 Spanish .... Zanahoiua. 

 Portuguese. Cenoira. 



German... Mbhre ; Mohrriibe ; Vogelnest ; Gelbe Wurzel. 

 Dutch .... Wilde Peen ; ^''ogelnest. 



Polish Marchew. 



Swedish .... Morot. 

 .Sanscrit . . . Garjara. 



