CLASS Y. OHDER II.] DAUCUS, 397 



Tribe 7. Daucinej-.— Koch. Fruit compressed at the baclv, ox 

 vounclish, on a transverse section. Channels with five primary 

 filiform bristly ri(J(/es, the lateral ones being placed on the com- 

 missure, and with iouv secondary ridges, bristly, and more prominent 

 than the others, the bristles free, or united «ilh a kind of wing. 

 Albumen flattish in front, or roundish. 



GENUS LXXVII. DAU'CUS.— Linn. Carrot. 



Gen. Char. Cali/x of five teeth. Petals obcordate, with an inflcxed 



point, the outer ones radiant, bifid. Fruit compressed at the bacli. 



Carpels with ii\c primary filiform bristly ridges, three at the bact, 



the two lateral ones on the pdane of the commissure, the four 



secondary ones more prominent than the rest, and with a single 



row of prickles. Channels under the secondary ridges, with single 



vittiE. Alhtimen flat in front. General and partial involucre of 



numerous segments, the former often wanting. — Name from 



Jau^Oi, daucics, 



1. X>. Caro^la, Linn. (Fig. 457.) Wild Carrot. Bristles of the fruit 



slender; leaves two or three pinnate; leaflets pinnalifid, with linear 



lanceolate acute segments; involucre of piunatifid segments; umbels 



with a solitary abortive coloured flower^ in the centre, when in seed, 



concave. 



English Botany, t. 1174. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 39. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 136. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 113. 



Root tapering, slender, yellowish, sweetish, with a pleasant aromatic 

 smell. Stem erect, from oae to three feet high, roundish, coarsely 

 striated, and more or less rough, with deflexcd hairs or bristles. Leaves 

 small above, larger below, footstalks striated, with a dilated sheathing 

 base, two or three times pinnate, with narrow lanceolate more or less 

 linear acute segments, with a bristly point, smooth, or clothed more or 

 less with white softer rigid hairs, especially on the under side. Umbels 

 terminal and lateral, the general of numerous unequal striated downy 

 or smooth raya, spreading when in flower, concave when in seed, from 

 the longer outer rays bending over and enclosing the shorter inner 

 ones, and in the centre of the umbel is a short ray, with two or three 

 abortive mostly coloured flowers, the partial of numerous short slender 

 unequal ones. General involucre of numerous spreaxliug pinnated 

 segments, smooth, or somewhat rough, partial numerous, narrow, 

 lanceolate, with a pale thin membranous margin. Flowers white or 

 pinkish. Cnh/x of five '^mall acute tocth. Petals nearly equal, except 



