188 



XXXVIIL UMBELLIFERiE. 



[ Torilis. 



prickles ; vittce solitary below each secondary rib. Albumen 

 involute. Pet radiant ; those of the ray deeply bifid, fin, 

 volucres iione^ or 1 — S-leaved,)— 'Name: Kav/caXtt,- of the Greeks 

 according to Linnaeus from /c£w, to lie along, and KavXog^ a stem 

 from their trailing along the ground. ' 



* Prickles of the secondary ribs in a single row, longer than the bristles of 



the fruit, 



1. C. daucoides L. (small B.); leaves bi-tripinnatifid seo*- 

 ments short, umbels of few rays, general involucre none, partial 

 imibels of few flowers, their involucres of about 3 small leaves 

 prickles of the secondary rib hooked. E, B. t. 197. 



Corn-fields, on a chalky soil, principally in the east and south-east 

 of England. 0. 6. — Peduncks lateral and terminal. 



partial umbels of about 3 rays. 



General and 



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Prickles of the secondary ribs in 2 — 3 rows similar to those of the 



others, "" 



Turgenia. 



2. C. "^latifolia L. {great B.) ; hispid, leaves pinnate, leaflets 

 decurrent pinnatifid and serrate, leaves of the involucres ovate 

 membranous, prickles on the fruit all 



^. B. t. 198. 



Turgenia Koch. 



etrorsely scabrous. 



Fields in a chalky soil, rare. Formerly abundant in Cambridge- 

 shire, but now extinct there. 0. 7. — A very striking plant, and 

 entirely different from the preceding. Leaves broad for this tribe 

 of Umbelliferce and comparatively little divided. General and partial 

 umbels with about 3 — 5 rays and about as many leaves to the invo- 

 lucre. Flowers rose-coloured, large ; fruit large, and abundandy 

 aculeat 



e. 



39. ToKiLTS Adans. Hedge-Parsley. (Tab. III. f. 39.) 



Fruit slightly laterally compressed. Carpels with 3 dorsal 

 inconspicuous bristly ribs, and 2 in the inner face of the car- 

 pels; the interstices scarcely prominent, clothed with prickles, 

 each with a single vitia. Albumen furrowed. Pet. obcordate, 

 outer ones radiant. (Partial involucre of many leaves.)— Name 

 of doubtful origin, perhaps, as Smith suggests, from ropeojy to 

 carve, or emboss ; in allusion to the appearance of the fruit. 



1 . T. Anthriseus Gasrtn. (upright IL) ; stem erect branched, 

 leaves bipinnate, leaflets lanceolate inciso-serrate attenuate, 

 umbels stalked terminal, involucres of many small subulate 

 leaves. Caucalis E, B. t. 987. 



Hedges and waste places. ©. 



7—9. 



Stenis 2 — S ft. hii^ch. 



Fruit densely clothed with incurved, but not hooked, scabrous bristles. 



ifesta Spr. (spreading: H 



ovate incise-pinnatifid serrate, umbels stalked terminal, general 



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