516 290. Carum. 45. UMBELLIFER^. PLex.cal 



Carum seu Careiira, Raii Syn. 213, 1 ; Ger. em. 1034, 



Carum vnlgare, Park. 910. 



Carum Carui, Lin. S, P. 378, 



Seseli Carum, Scopoli Cam. 361, 



Apium Carui, Crantz ^ustr. 218. 



Ligusticum Carui, Hoth Germ. 324. . 



Seseli Carui, De Candolle Fl. Fr. 4,285. ' 



Bunium Carui, Marsch Fl, Taur. Cauc. 1,211. 



Carraway. 



Fields and pastures, also cultivated; peren.; June, July. 



Root fusiform; 5^em 2 feet high, bald ; leaves bipinnate; 

 leaflets crossed; umhells terminal, white. — Roots superior 

 to parsneps for kitchen use ; young leaves used as a pot- 

 herb; seeds used to flavour cakes, to form sugar-plums, 

 and, as they yield much essential oil on distillation, also to 

 flavour ardent spirits and form a carminative distilled 

 water. 



XXVI. 291. MEUM. Dioscorides. Spignel, 

 Involucrum or few-leaved, leaves cut ; involucella many- 

 leaved, halved, cut or whole; calyx scaly, toothed ; pe/a/^ 

 nearly equal, ovate, keeled ; lacinule very short, inflexed, 

 pointed ; fruit elliptical, oblong, crowned; akenium 5-ribbed; 

 ribs sharp, nearly winged; vallecules flattish, finely streaked; 

 spermapodium bi'istlelike, 2-cut. 



Meum Athamanticum. Athamantian spignel. 



Leaves 2 or tripinnate ; leaflets bristlelike, many-cut; 

 lobes very slender, bald. 



Meum, Raii Syn. 207, 1 ; Ger. em. 1052, 1. 



Meum vulgatius, Pflj-fc. 888. 



Athamanta Meum, Lin. S. P. 353. 



^thusa Meum, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 13, 237. 



Ligusticum Meum, Crantz Anstr. 308. 



Carum Meum, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 138. 



Mew. Bear wort. Spieknell. Bald money. Bawd money. 



Mountainous pastures ; perennial ; May . 



Root thick, woody, aromatic, fibrous at the tip ; stem 

 scarcely branched, rather naked ; stipules dilated ; umhells 

 many-rayed. 



XXVII. 292. LIGUSTICUM. Dioscorides, Lavage. 

 Involucrum 4 or 5-leaved, unequal ; involucella many- 

 leaved ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals nearly equal ; ovate, invo- 

 lute ; fruit oblong, crowned ; akenium 5-ribbed ; ribs mem- 

 branaceous. 



