40 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Caucalis. 



2. D. maritimus. Sea-coast Carrot. 



Bristles of the seeds flattened. Leaflets dilated, fleshy, pin- 



natifid, with rounded segments. Umbels convex when 



in seed. 

 D. maritimus. With.2Q0. Comp. 45. Engl. Bot. v. 36. t. 2560. 

 D. maritimus lucidus. Dill, in Rail Sijn. 218. 



On the sea coast, of the south of England. 



Near Dover. Sherard and Rand. In Cornwall, mthering. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Of a more humble stature than the former, with broad, shining, 

 bluntly cut leaflets, whose edges and ribs are hairy. The brac- 

 teas are all broader ; the partial ones more generally three-cleft. 

 Umbels destitute of the red central abortive flower, at all times 

 convex, never concave. Bristles of the seeds more flattened at 

 the base, rather resembling those of some foreign species than 

 the foregoing, from which this plant is surely distinct. It must 

 not be confounded with D. fnaritimus of Gaertner, (. 20, which 

 is rather, as that author himself observes, a Caucalis. 



140. CAUCALIS. Bur-parsley. 



Linn. Gen. 130. Juss. 224. Fl. Br. 296. Tourn.i.l7l. Lam. 1. 192. 

 Gcertn. t. 20. 



Fl. imperfectly separated, irregular ; the outermost fertile. 

 Cal. superior, of 5 broad, acute, unequal, permanent 

 leaves. Pet. more or less unequal, inversely heart-shaped, 

 with a strongly inflexed point, the lobes of each almost 

 equal. Filam. awl-shaped, shorter than the corolla. Anth. 

 roundish. Germ, inferior, oblong, bristly. Fl. Recept. 

 obsolete. Styles awl-shaped, shghtly spreading, much 

 shorter than the corolla, tumid and somewhat pyramidal 

 at the base, permanent. Stigmas abrupt, oblique. Fruit 

 elliptic-oblong, rather compressed transversely, tumid. 

 Seeds with 4 principal ribs, beset each with a row of nu- 

 merous, ascending, awl-shaped, hooked prickles; the 

 intermediate spaces prickly or rough ; the inner surfaces 

 flattish, and close together. 



Foot annual, or biennial. Stem branched, furrowed, rough- 

 ish, leafy. Leaves on short stalks, doubly or triply pin- 

 natifid, toothed, or finely cut. Umbels lateral and termi- 

 nal, stalked, of few general rays, and not many partial 

 ones. Fl. white or reddish, several of them barren, or 

 abortive. Bracteas various, often broad and membranous, 

 alwavs undivided. Fruit adhesive, 



