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1. C daucoides. Small Bur-parsley. 



Umbels three-cleft, without general bracteas ; partial ones 

 with three bracteas, and ripening about three fruits. 

 Leaves repeatedly subdivided. 



C. daucoides. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 205. ed. 14.276. 



Mant.35l. WiUd.v.l.l384. Fl.Br.296. Engl. Bot.v.S.t. 197. 



Jacq. Austr. t. 157. 

 C. leptophylla. Huds. ed. 1. 99 ; not of Linn. 

 C. n. 739. Hall. Hist. V. 1.324. 

 C. tenuifolia, flosculis siibrubentibus. Ra'd Sijn. 219. 

 Conium Royeni. Linn. Sp. PI. 350. 

 Echinophora. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 24. 

 E. tertia leptophyllon purpurea. Column. Ecphr. 96. t. 97./. 2. 



In corn fields, on a chalky soil. 



At Marham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Carlby, between Stamford and 

 Bourn, Lincolnshire. Mr. Woodward. Thorp Arch, Yorkshire. 

 J. Allan, M.D. Frequent in the counties of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering. Herb nearly smooth, bushy. Stem deeply 

 furrowed, hairy at the joints. Leavts on short membranous- 

 edged foot-stalks ; thr.:e-cleft at the base, then thrice com- 

 pounded, with very narrow, deep-green segments. Umbels of 

 3 or 4 stout, spreading, principal rays, with rarely a small so- 

 litary bractea; the partial ones of 2 or 3 fertile j^owers, with 

 several barren, and some that are abortive. Cal. very obvious. 

 Pet. generally reddish, but slightly radiant. Partial bracteas 

 from 3 to 5, lanceolate, not membranous. Fruit large, oblong, 

 very prickly, as well as somewhat hairy. 



The synonym of Gerarde Em. 1021, quoted in Fl. Br,, certainly 

 belongs to C. grandiflora. 



2. C. latifolia. Great Bur-parsley. 



Umbels three-cleft, with membranous bracteas; partial ones 

 ripening about five fruits. Leaves pinnate, serrated. 



C. latifolia. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 205. ed. 14. 276. Willd, 



«.1.1384. Fl.Br.297. Engl.Bot.v.'i.t.\9Q. Jacq. Hort. Find, 



r.2.59. t. 128. 

 C. n. 738. Hall. Hist. v. 1.324. 

 C. arvensis echinata latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 152. Raii Stjn. 219. 



Mill. Ic. t. 85. Garid. Prov. 90. t. 22. 

 Tovdylium latifolium. Linn.Sp. PI. 345. Huds. ed. 1. 98. 

 Echinophora quarta major platyphyllon purpurea. Column. Ecphr, 



9S.t.97.f. 1. 

 Broad Bur-])arsley. Pet. H. Brit. t. 27./. 6. 



j3. Echinophora laciniata. Dill, in Raii Syn. 219. 



