156 ENGLISH B0TAJT5T. 



of the parks, Oxford ; in a hedge ahout half a mile from Eton, and 

 near Isleworth. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 



Stem erect, 1 to 4 feet high, furrowed, retrorsely hispid, slightly 

 branched towards the top. Umbels of 5 to 10 hispid unequal rays, 

 •| to 1 inch long. Pedicels much surpassed by the leaves of the 

 involucels. Flowers \ inch across, white. Cremocarp ^ inch long, 

 covered with small tubercles, from which short stiff hairs are pro- 

 duced ; border continuous, not beaded. Plant dark-green, hispid. 



Great Hart-wort. 



French, Tordyle eleve. German, Gr'ussler Zirmet. 



Tribe VII.— DAU CINE -E. 



Cremocarp dorsally compressed ; columella distinct ; mericarps 

 flattened from back to front, with 5 primary ridges, 3 on the back, 

 filiform and hairy, the lateral pair on the face of the mericarp, and 

 4 secondary elevated prickly ridges. Seed flat on the inner face. 

 Elowers in regular umbels. 



GENUS XXX— D A U C U S. Linn. 



Calyx-limb of 5 teeth. Petals obovate, notched, with an inflexed 

 lobe. Cremocarp oblong or oval, slightly compressed from back 

 to back of the mericarps ; columella free, undivided, 2-cleft or 

 bipartite ; mericarps compressed from back to front, with 5 primary 

 filiform bristly ridges, of which 3 are on the back and 2 on the face 

 of the seed, and 4 prominent winged secondary ridges, with the 

 wing divided into a single row of soft spines ; vittae solitary, under 

 the secondary ridges. Involucre generally of numerous pinnatifid 

 leaves. 



Herbs with pinnately decompound leaves, and white, pink, or 

 yellowish flowers. 



The name of this genus of plants is supposed to be derived from la.m> (daio), I 

 warm. 



SrECIES I.— DAUCUS CAR OTA. Linn. 



Plates DCXV. DCXVI. 



Stem hispid. Leaves hi- or tri-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid. 



Involucre of numerous pinnatifid or 3-cleft leaves, about as long as 



the umbel -rays in flower, exceeding them in bud; involucels 



scarious, with an herbaceous midrib. Cremocarp oblong-ovoid, 



