WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
Utah and California, and probably in Washing- 
ton. 
WILD CARROT. BIRD'S NEST. QUEEN 
ANNE’S LACE 
Daticus Cardta. Carrot Family. 
Tirades of abuse and condemnation have been 
heaped upon the Wild Carrot by farmers whose fields 
and pastures have been overrun by this prolific immi- 
grant from Europe and Asia. It is doubtful, how- 
ever, if the farmer knows, or even whether he cares, 
that this species is said to be the original of the very 
carrot that he regularly cultivates. Scrapings from 
the strongly scented roots have been applied as a local 
stimulant for wounds. The round, slender, hairy, 
biennial stalk grows erect from one to three feet from 
a deep, conical root. It is a light green in colour, and 
very finely ribbed. The lower leaves are exceedingly 
fringy, being very much cut and divided, and the 
upper ones less so. Their surface is rough, and the 
colour is yellowish green. The foliage is sparse and 
occurs at distant intervals. The tiny, white, usually 
five-parted flowers have minute, yellow-tipped stamens, 
and are densely clustered in many small, flat wheels 
that are again grouped in a symmetric, flat-topped disk. 
The central flower of each disk is often dark or purp- 
lish, and occasionally all of the flowers have a delicate 
purplish tinge. The outer florets are largest. The 
flowers are set on slender stems that radiate from a 
common centre, and about which is set a whorl of 
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