Bunium.'] xxxvni. umbellifer^. 173 



Gardens and wet places. 2^. 6— 8. — A foot and a half high. 

 Eadical leaves twice ternate, upper ones ternate ; leaflets ovate, acu- 

 minate, unequally serrate. The creeping root is pungent and aro- 

 matic Although now among our most common and noxious weeds, 

 it appears to have been origmally introduced by the monks. 



11. Carum Linn. Caraway. (Tab. I. f. 11.) 



Fruit oblong, crowned with the depressed bases of the de- 

 flexed styles. ^Carpels with 5 ribs, and single vitt(B between 

 them. Cal'teeth obsolete. Pet obcordate with an inflected 

 point. — Name derived, according to Pliny, from that of the 

 country, Caria ; but more probably from the Celtic or Gaelic 

 carhh, a ship, from the shape of the carpels. 



1. C. ^Cdrui L. (common C) ; root fusiform, stem branched, 

 partial involucre none, universal none or 1-leaved. E. B. 

 t. 1503. 



Meadows and pastures, in several places both in England and 

 Scotland. $. 6.— Stem I— 2 feet high. Leaves doubly pinnate, 

 cut into linear segments, of which the lowermost are decussate. 

 Umbels dense. Carpels agreeably aromatic, and well known as Cara- 

 way seeds. Carpophore bipartite. 



2. C. Bulhocdstanum Koch (tuberous C) ; root tuberous, 

 general and partial involucres of many linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 leaves triplnnate, their segments linear acute. Buniumi.; 

 E. B. S. t. 2862. 



Fields. Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire ; and over the whole of 

 the chalk district from Bygrave, near Ealdock, in Hertfordshire, to 

 the neighbourhood of Dunstable (20 miles), so plentiful iiear Bal- 

 dock, that the farmers turn their pigs upon the fallows to feed upon 

 the root. !{:. 6, 7, 



3. C. verticilldtum Koch (whorled C.) ; root fascicled, leaflets 

 all capillary in short whorled segments. Sison Z. : E, B, t. 395. 



In England, very rare; near Carlisle. In the flat parts of Wales, 

 Killarney, and near Bantry Bay, Ireland. Extremely abundant m 

 moist hilly pasturages in the west of Scotland, especially near the 

 Clyde, if.. 7, 8._Lea^?es mostly radical; a long common petiole 

 hears a number of opposite multifid capillary leaflets, whose spreading 

 makes them appear whorled, Stem a foot high, slender. Umbels 

 few, terminal. General and partial involucres very small, deflexed. 



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12. BuNiUM Koch. Earth-nut. (Tab. I. f. 12.) 



Fruit oblong, crowned with the bases of the diverging or 

 nearly straight styles. Carpels with 5 slender, obtuse ribs, and 

 2—3 elongated linear vitt(B between them,' and none upon the 

 suture. Cal-teeth obsolete. Pet. obcordate, with an inflected 

 point. — Named from ^owoq^ dihill^ where the plant delights to 



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