110 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Plants of various habit, generally with finely- divided leaves and 

 terminal compound umbels of white slightly radiant flowers. 



This genus of plants is named from the place whence it was brought and where it 

 still abounds — Caria, in Asia Minor. 



SPECIES L— C A RUM VERTICILLATUM. Koch. 



Plate DLXXXI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXL Tab. 1873. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1885 (bis). 

 Sison verticillatuni, Linn. Sin. Eug. Bot. No. 395. 

 Buniuin verticillatuni, Gr. <fc Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 729. 



Root of thickened clavate fibres. Leaves mostly radical, sub- 

 cylindrical in outline, pinnate, with the pinnae short, divided to the 

 base into numerous setaceous linear very acute segments, spreading 

 on all sides, so as to appear whorled. Involucre and involucel of 

 numerous lanceolate acuminate subscarious leaves. 



In moist meadows. Local, and confined to the "West coast, 

 where it occurs in "Wales, the Lake district, and abundantly in the 

 south-western counties of Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Root of numerous fibres, 1 to 2 inches long, increasing in width 

 towards the apex. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high, slightly branched, 

 surrounded at the base by the fibrous remains of decayed leaves. 

 Radical leaves 2 to 12 inches long, with numerous pairs of pinnae 

 split up into very slender segments, which surround the petiole, as 

 if in whorls; lowest whorls small and distant, all slightly curving 

 towards the apex of the leaf; stem-leaves few, similar to the radical 

 ones, the upper ones very small, with dilated petioles. Umbels 

 regular, flat-topped, the rays f to \\ inch long ; umbellules many- 

 flowered, the rays about \ inch long ; leaves of the involucels not 

 half the length of the rays; flowers white, fo inch across, slight ly 

 radiant. Petals obcordate, notched, with an indexed point. Sta- 

 mens about as long as the petals. Cremocarp ovate-ovoid, com- 

 pressed, yellowish-brown, with the ribs paler and strongly marked; 

 vittse very large, filling up the entire space between the ridges ; 

 columella split about one-third of the way down. Styles curved 

 outwards, about half as long as the cremocarp. Plant glabrous 

 bright-green. 



Whorled Caraway. 



French, Carum verlicilli. German, Quirlbliitlrige 



