

'JS PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Daucus. 



Engl. Bot. r.34. t. 2413. Fl. Grcec. v. 3. 58. t. 265. Turr. Far- 

 set. 7. Cuvan. Ic. v. 2. 24. t. 127. Jucq. Collect, r. 2. 155. 



E. miiritinia spinosa. Tourn. Inst. GoG. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 220. 



Crithmum .spinosum. Dod.Pewpt.JOo.f. Ger.Em.533.f. Raii 

 Si/n. ed.2.\l4. 



C. secundum. Matth. Valgr.v.\.A-\o.f. Ed. Bauh. 33]. f. Camer. 

 Epit.273.f. 



Pa.stinaca marina. Loh. Ic. 710./. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 106./. 

 'palech.Hist.\306.f. 



On t!ie sandy sea shore ; not found by any recent botanist. 



Observed by Mr. Lawson at Koosebeck in Low Fiirness, Lanca- 

 shire. Rui/. Between Feversham and Sea Salter. Blacksione. 

 Betv.-een Whit.stable and the isle of Thanet^ by Sandwich^ and 

 near We.st-chester. Gerarde. 



Perennial. July. 



Root spindle-shaped, long and fleshy, reported to be eatable, hav- 

 ing the flavour of Parsnep, vvith a stimulating and diuretic 

 quality. Herb glaucous, finely downy, copiously branched, and 

 spreading in every direction 2 or 3 feet. Leaves rigid, alternate 

 or opposite, doubly pinnatlfid, wit!i narrow, channelled, entire, 

 spinous -pointed segments, /'/.white, or pale fie.sli-coloured, 

 numerous. General bracieas undivided, numerous, about as 

 long as the stalks of the general umbel; partial cues much 

 smaller, finally confluent with the receptacle and with each other. 

 Marginal flowers radiant and sometimes neuter. Fruit globose, 

 encompassed with the spreading hardened partial bracieas, and 

 crowned with the thickened stalks, and permanent calyx-leaves, 

 of the faded barren flowers. — There are rudiments of 2 seeds, 

 though only one comes to perfection. 



139. DAUCUS. Carrot. 



Linn. Gen. V?,\. Juss. 224. Fl. Br. 300. Tourn. t. 161. Lam. 

 t, \92. Gcrrtn. t.20. 



FL .separated ; the outermost irregular, barren ; inner ones 

 fertile ; eentral mostly neuter, often coloured. Cal. obso- 

 lete. Pet. inversely heart-shaj)ed, with an inflcxcd point, 

 more or less irregular ; the lobes of tlie 4 lateral ones 

 very unequal, of the odd one ecjual aiid largest. Filam. 

 capillary, longer than the eorolla, spieading. Anih, rather 

 oblong. Germ, inferior, ovato, bristh', imj-serlect in the 

 outermost, as well as in the central, flowers. .SVy/ri' thread- 

 .shaped, spreading, perpianent, dihUed at tlie base, and 

 forming a double permanent globe. Stigmas obtuse. 

 Floral Receptacle none. Fruit elliptic-oblong, trans- 

 versely compressed, tumid. Seeds with 4 principal ribs, 

 beset each witli a row of numerous, flattish, somewhat 



