PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. T6rilis. 75 



nearly as well, as upon oats : if given beyond a certain time, apt to 

 cause bloody urine in cattle. To destroy crickets, place a paste of 

 powdered arsenic, wheat meal, and scraped carrots, near their 

 habitation. Poultice of the boiled roots, mitigates the pain, and 

 abates the stench of foul ulcers. See Walker on Carrots, 8vo.' 

 The herb and seeds are diuretic, and esteemed useful in gi'avelly 

 or calculous complaints. Garden carrot, a var. of this. 



CAU'CALIS. Bur-parsley. 



C. daucoides. Small B, Umbels three cleft, without 

 general bracteas ; partial ones with three bracteas, and 

 ripening about three fruits. Leaves repeatedly subdi- 

 vided. E. B. 197. 



Cornfields, on a chalky soil. Between Middleton Stoney and Buck- 

 nell. Sb. Frequent in the County of Oxford. Sm. 



An. June. 



Stems straddling. Ls. narrow, deep-green segments, very finely 

 divided. Germs armed with hooked bristles. Pet. reddish. 



TO'RILIS/ Hedge-parsley. 



T. Anthriscus. Upriyht H. Umbels of many close 

 rays, with numerous general bracteas. Leaflets wing- 

 cleft. Branches nearly upright. Caucalis Anthriscus. 

 E. B. 987. C. 6. 22. Sb. 93. C. minor, floscuhs 

 rubentibus. G. E. 1022. 



Hedges, borders of fields. 



An. July. 



Fl. white, or flesh-coloured, red underneath. Fruit purplish at 

 the top. Styles bent back. Ls. twice winged. Leaflets egg- 

 spear-shaped. Seeds egg-shaped. 



T. infesta. Spreading H. Umbels of many close rays. 

 General bracteas scarcely any. Leaflets wing-cleft. 

 Branches spreading. Caucalis infesta. E. B. 1314. 

 C. 6. 23. C. arvensis. Sb. 92. 



Fields, icay sides. 



An. July. 



Seeds adhesive. Want of many leaved involucre, and straddling 

 branches of this, distinguish it fi'om T. Anthriscus. Terminating 

 leaflet linear-spear shaped. Generally found in corn-fields, not 

 under hedges. 



1- Author of the well-known " Experiments and Observations on the ProduC' 

 Hon of Artificial Cold." 1796. 8vo. 

 2 Torilis, toreuo, to carve, emboss, in reference to the seed. 



