44 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Anthriscns. 



In fields and by way sides, common. 



Annual. July. 



Smaller than the last, and more spreading, from 6 to 18 inches 

 high. Lertjjes pinnate, deeply cut and sometimes almost bipin- 

 nate, harsh to the touch ; the terminal leaflet elongated. Um- 

 bels of from 3 to 5 rather close rays, for the most part destitute 

 of general bracteas, though now and then furnished with a soli- 

 tary one, which, like the numerous partial bracteas, is lanceolate 

 and acute. Fl. cream-coloured, or pure white ; rarely flesh-co- 

 loured. Anth. yellowish or purple. Fr. larger than that of 

 T. Anthriscns, green or reddish, crowned with the white or hoary 

 calyx, and red styles, but not tipped with purple. A very di- 

 stinct species, well marked by the deficiency of general bracteas, 

 and by the spreading branches. 



3. T. 7iodosa. Knotted Hedge-parsley. 



Umbels lateral, simple, nearly sessile. Stem prostrate. 

 Fruit partly granulated. 



T. nodosa. Gcertn. v. 1.82. 



Caucalis nodosa. Hiuls. 1 14. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1 . 1388. Fl. Br. 299. 



Engl. Bot. V 3. t. 199. Hook. Scot. 88. 

 C. nodosa, echinato semine. Bauh. Pin. 153. Prodr. 80. Rati 



Syn.220. Ger.Em. 1022./. 

 C. ad alas florens. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 36. 

 Tordylium nodosum. Linn. Sp. PL 346. Jacq. Austr. app. t. 24. 



On banks, and about the borders of fields j most plentiful in a 

 gi'avelly or chalky soil. 



Annual. May, June. 



Root slender. Steins prostrate, branched, leafy, round, a foot long, 

 rough with reflexed bristles. Leaves of a deep glaucous green, 

 hairy, doubly pinnate and sharply cut, with very narrow, tolera- 

 bly uniform, segments. Umbels opposite to the leaves, solitary, 

 on short stalks, simple, dense, nearly globular, with several linear 

 hairy bracteas. Fl. almost sessile. Cal. short and unequal. Pet. 

 small, white or reddish, scarcely at all radiating or unequal. 

 Stam. short. Styles globular at the base ; straight and elon- 

 gated after the flowering. Seeds ovate ; the outer one of each 

 external fruit thickly clothed with long, straight, pale, rough 

 bristles, minutely hooked at the tips ■ the inner, as well as all 

 the interior fruits, covered with dense, whitish, shining tubercu- 

 lar granulations. 



142. ANTHRISCUS. Beaked-parsley. 



Spreng. Prodr. 27. 



FL all perfect, regular, and generally prolific. CaL none. 

 Pet. equal, uniform, inversely heart-shaped, with a small 



