146 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Inner face of the seeds flat (not hollowed out), where the two halves 
of the fruit join 
Fruit with jong prickles. Umbel tanto concave. 1. Daucus. 
Fruit not prickly but th on the m: 
Flowers yellow. All alike. 2. PASTINACA. 
owers white, the outer corollas larger. 3. HERACLEUM. 
Flowers white, all alike ; leaves —, La 8-foliolate. 4. ARCHEMORA 
Fruit rian Briokiy nor winged on the mar; 
Flow: ellow ; leaflets long and narrow. ’ §. FornIcuLuM. 
Howelk = i . 
Umbels ‘usually without inyolucre or iia 
Divisions of the leaves very slen 6. CARUM. 
Divisions or leaflets wedge-shaped. rf 
Divisi afiets ovate o: 8. JEGoPODIUM. 
Umbels with 3-leayed inyolucels but no involucre 9. 
10. PETRO 
2-3 times compound ; lea 11. CicuTs. 
Inner face ~ — seed oaal ed or soltoved out Prseg the iwiiaio length 
of the inn 
ie ly cut, with an unpleasant odor. 12, ConiuM. 
Inner face ru te: wen pi at the top and bottom. 
Flowers white. 13. CoRIANDRUM. 
=! DAU’CUS, Tournef. Car 
‘ukos, the ancient Greek name of the ra a 
Calyx — hed. Corolla irregular. “Abe ovoid oblong, somewhat 
dorsally compressed. Carpels with the 5 primary nd slender and 
minutely bristly, the 4 pinta ad Be ribs one prominenay each 
rpg cleft into a single row of prickles with an ozl tube dase each 
of thi bore many ered 4 one pinna natifid. Involucels many- 
leaved ; leaflets tri trifid or entire. Biennials with leaves bi- or tri- pinnately 
1. D. Car o’ta, L. pice ge leaves 2—3-pinnatifid ; segments pin- 
— the lobes lanceolate and ¢ cuspidate  eates of the involucre 
as long as the umbel ; ~ price about equal to the diameter of the 
oblong-oval ruit. 
ARRoT Daveus. Carrot. Wild Carrot. 
Carotte. Germ. Die Moehre. jee Zanahoria. 
stom 3S & fee ig Ape gyres 
peduncles or beans "Sextotes, nearly level on “the top when. in a a =n in 
or ochroleucous—occasionally with a lish e central floret. 
of the umbel fte es het with fleshy — purple eeleng ieee ve ery hispid, the. 
Gardens, field: cnaee? Native of Europe and the East. Fi. July- 
Obs. The var. satrva, DC., or common —— Banat ei a oe 
fleshy yellow or r reddish orange-colored cultivated as 
culinary vegetable, for soups, &e. In Barope re is highly esteemed as 
a food for Milch Cows, and other stock, during winter; but. inthis 
country, the root athe for such ek is but little ‘attended to,” 
probably less than it oni 0: The wild variety is extensively natu- _ 
