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The leaves are large, and divided in a hand- 
fome manner into numerous {mall fegments : and 
they are lightly hairy, and of a pleafant green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and five feet high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe fromm the root . 
but they are fmaller: ‘ 
The flowers ftand at the tops bf the branches 
in large umbells ; and they are little and white : 
fometimes they are lightly tinged with red, 
The feeds are light; hairy, and of a pale brown. 
It is found wild in Scotland near the {ea- 
coafts, where the root is yellow and hard; but 
the plant in all things refembles the garden kind, 
This is the original carrot: the red-rooted kind 
is only a variety, though fome have named it as 
a diftinct f{pecies. 
The root is nourifhing and wholefome, 
feeds are diuretick. 
The 
3. Wild Carrot. 
Daucus fylveftris. 
The root is long and white, of a fweetith, but 
fomewhat acrid tafte, and hung with a few fibres, 
The leaves are large, and of a pale green, finely 
divided into fegments, and hairy. 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, and is 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root ; 
but they have fewer divifions, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches 
DIVISION IL FO 
Candy Carrot. 
Daucus Creticus. 
The root is long, flender, and white: 
The firft leavés are deeply divided into a mul- 
titude of fegments; which are very narrow and 
pointed ; and the whole leaf is of a pale green, 
‘and hairy. 
The ftalk is ribbed; upright; two feet high, 
and divided into numerous branches. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the toot, 
but that they are fimaller. ‘ 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
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in little, round umbels; aiid they aré fiiall and 
white. 
_The feeds are hairy ; and they form a hollow 
bed, like the neft of a bird. 
Tt is commén by way-fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Daucits flvefris tenuifolia 
Diofcoridis. 
The feeds of this plant are excellent in the gra- 
vel, and in obftruétions of the vifcera ; in thé 
beginnings of dropfies, and in the jaundice, 
They operate powerfully by urite. 
4. Shining-leaved Wild Carrer: 
Daucus maritimus foliis lucidis. 
The root is long; flender, white, 
with fibres, 
The firft leaves are numerous, and divided into 
beautiful (egments : they are of a fine gteen, and 
of a glofly furface, 
The ftalk is upright, branched, ahd two feet 
high : its leaves fland alternately, and refemblé. 
thofe frorn the root. ; 
The flowers are {mall and white; and the feeds 
are rough, and of a pale brown: 
We have it on our fouthern coafts. Tt flower’ 
in July. i 
Ray calls it Daucus maritinus lucidus. 
and hung 
REIGN SPECIES, 
; The feeds aré oblong; hairy, and of a vety 
pale colour. : 
It is a native of thé Greek iflands, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Daucus foliis faniculi tenuif» 
Jimis. Others, Daucus Creticis. 
The feeds are ufed in medicine: they are diu: 
retick and deobftruent, and are ingredients in 
many compofitioris. Nature varies a little in the 
characters of this plant; and Linnzeus makes it 
a fpecies of another genus, but the feeds thew 
it a daucus. 
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BASTARD PARSLEY. 
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ALIS. 
HE flowers ate placed in little umbells, on a few btanches, with more numerous fubdivi- 
T fions: there are fome narrow leaves, both at the bafe of the larger branches, and of the 
fmaller. Each flower is formed of five petals; which are fomewhat bent, and fplit at thetop. The 
cup is divided into five pointed fegments. 
and are covered with a kind of prickles. 
The feeds are of an oval, of fomewhat oblong figure, 
Linneus places this among the pentandria digynia; the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
each flower. 
1. Purple-flowerdd great Baftard Parfley. 
Caucalis major flofciulis rubentibus. 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The firft leaves are large, and of a pale green: | 
they are bedutifully divided in a pinnated man- 
ner into fliort fegments, which are ferrated and 
fharp-pointed. 
The ftalks are two feet high, branched, and 
iated, and of a pale green. 
ftriated, and of a pale g ae 
