74 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Daucus. 



corymbose. Distinguished by its cal. segments from G. Ama- 

 rella. Cor. pale violet. 



Used by the poor instead of hops. FL Suec. All the Gentians 

 bitter. 



ERY'NGIUM.' Eringo. 



{^E. campestre. Field E. Leaves clasping the stem ; 

 root-ones twice or thrice wing-cleft. Scales of the 

 receptacle undivided. E. B. 57* E. med. G. E. 

 1162. 



Pastures, rare. * Da^^entry, Northamptonshire. Morton. Oppo- 

 site Brookhall, near Daventry. E. FL Smith's. 



Per. Juii/, August, 



Plant palish green. Pet. white or purplish, narrow, bent inwards 



sharply.) 



Umhelliferous plants generally herbaceous. Is. for the most part 

 repeatedly compound. Flowers white, reddish, or yellow. In 

 dry or mountainous places aromatic, wholesome ; marsh or 

 aquatic, virulent and dangerous. Sm. 



SANI'CULA/ Sanicle. 



S. europcBa. Wood S. Root-leaves simple, deeply 

 lobed. Flowers all nearly stalkless. E. B, 98. S. 

 sive Diapensia. G. E. 948. 



PVoods, groves. 



Per. May. 



Ls. about seven lobed, three cleft, shining. FL nximerous, crow-ded, 



cream-coloured, in small, stalked heads. 



Herb bitter, acrid, somewhat aromatic, pungent. 



DAUCUS. Carrot. 



D. Carota. Wild C. Bird's Nest. Bristles of the 

 seeds slender. Leaflets wing-cleft, with linear-spear- 

 shaped acute segments. Umbels with a solitary, 

 coloured, abortive flower ; when in seed hollow. E. B. 



1174. 



Banks of fields, dry pastures. 



Bien. July. 



Ls. twice, thrice winged. Neutral fl. in the centre, blood-red. 



Leaf-stalks ribbed beneath. 



Gi-atefvd, nutritious to cattle : carriage horses work upon them, 



' See Nova Acta Acad. Natura Curiosorum for 1821, aMd Hooker's Brit. Fl, 

 in Umbellif. Plants. 

 « So called from its supposed vulnerary qualities. 



