PENTANDllIA—DIGYNIA. Daucus. S9 



confluent, taper-pointecl, straight or hooked, j^rickles ; 

 the mtermediate ribs slighdy prominent, roughish ; the 

 inner surfaces flat and even, closely applied to each other. 

 Root tapering, annual or biennial. Stem round, furrowed, 

 bi'anched, leafy. Leaflets repeatedly, and for the most 

 part finely, divided, not spinous, flat, often hairy. Umbels 

 compound, large, flat or convex while in flower, after- 

 wards either concave or convex. General, and some- 

 times partial, hradeas pinnatifid, or three-cleft, narrow, 

 jiernianent. Fl. white, or reddish, sometimes dotted, 

 various in their respective degrees of perfection. Fruit 

 adhesive, like burs. 



1. D. Carota. Wild Carrot. 



Bristles of the seeds slender. Leaflet;? pinnatifid, with linenr- 

 lanceolate acute segments. Umbels with a solitary, co- 

 loured, abortive flower ; when in seed concave. 



D. Carota. Linn. Sp. PI. .3-18. fFilld. v. 1 . 1389. FL Br. 300. 



Engl. Bot. V. 17. f. 1 174. IJ'oodv. Med. Bof. t.\6\. 3Iart. Rust. 



t. 82. Hook. Scot. 88. FL Dan. t. 723. 

 D. polygamus. Gounn. Obs. 9. Jacq. Hort. Vind.v.3. -13. '. 78. 

 D. n. 7AQ. HalL Hist. V. I. 326. 

 D. vulgaris. Rail Sijn. 218. C!us. Hist. v. 2. 198. 

 Caucalis Carota. llnds. 111. 

 Staphylinus. Riv. Penlap. Irr. f. 28. 

 Pastinaca sylvestris. Matth. Falgr.v.2. 107./. bad. Camer. Epit. 



508. /. 

 P. .sylvcstvis tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 1028./. bad. 

 P. erratica. Fuchs. Hist. 684./ 



In pastui'cs, and the borders of fields, in a gravelly soilj common. 



Biennial. .June, July. 



Root .slender, yellowisli, nronuUic and sweetish, resembling the 

 Garden Carrot, which is only a cultivated variety. Stem 2 or 3 

 feet high, branched, erect, leafy, hairy or bri.stly. Leaves alter- 

 nate, on broad, concave, ribbed footstalks, bipinnate, cut, nar- 

 row, acufc, distp.ntly hairy. Umbels terminating the long leaf- 

 less branches, solitary, large, white, except the one central 

 neutral^o;«er, which is bloo:l-rcd. General bracteas pinnatifid, 

 .slender, large, but not so long as the umbel ; partial undivided, 

 or partly 3-cleft, membranous at the edges. Seeds small, pro- 

 tected by the incurvation of all the flower-Btallis, by v.hicii the 

 umbels are rendered hollow, 1 kc a bird's nest. 



The herb and seeds are diuretic, and esteemed pscful in gravelly 

 or calculous complaints. 



