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Inflorescence and Flowers. — The flowers (,Fig. 221) are 

 in. broad compound umbels usually with 7 to 15 main "rays/ ' 

 each terminated by a small umbellet. There are no involu- 

 cres and involucels in the parsnip, thus differing markedly 



Fig. 221. — Leaf and inflorescence of parsnip (Pastinaca sativa). 



from the carrot. The flowers are yellow. The calyx teeth 

 are very small or absent, the petals incurved and small., the 

 stylopodium depressed, and the ovary inferior. 



Fruit and Seed. — The fruit (Fig. 218) is broadly oval and 

 much flattened dorsally. The dorsal and two intermediate 



