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rough slalks, 3 — 5-lobed hriu-ts with linear segments, and linear 

 hraiteoks, is only a casual introduction on ballast-heaps and in 

 cornfields. 



14. Carum. — Glabrous plants with pinnate or decoimpound 

 leaves ; compound umbels of white, pink, or yellow /'oij.'ers, with 

 many, few, or no brac/s and 

 bracteoks, and deeply-notched 

 petals ; and oblong //-«zV with 

 slender ridges. (Name said 

 to be derived from Caria, in 

 Asia Minor.) 



1. C. vertiLilldtiini (W'horl- 

 ed Caraway). — An erect 

 plant, I — 2 feet high, with 

 leaves pinnately divided into 

 very many hair-like segments 

 and so crowded as to appear 

 whorled ; umbels flat-topped ; 

 feJiuis slender ; braeis and 

 braeteoles many, short, re- 

 fiexed ; flowers white or pink. 

 — -Wet meadows, chiefly in 

 the west ; rare. Fl. July, 

 August, Perennial. 



2. C. indjus (Common 

 Pig-nut). — A very slender 

 plant, about a foot high, 

 bearing a few finely divided, 

 3-ternate leaves and terminal 

 umbels of \<\\\\.tflo'cvers. The 

 tuber, which resembles a 

 small potato in shape, and is 

 covered by a thin, easily re- 

 movable, brown skin, is eat- 

 able, but only fit for the food 

 of the animal after which it is 

 named. The plant much resembles Cdruiii Bulbocdsia)inm, but 

 differs in its brown, not black, tuber, its smaljer size, tcrnate, not 

 pinnate leaves, fewer or absent bracts and bracteoles, large disk 

 and erect styles. — Sandy pastures ; common. — Fl. May, June, 

 Perennial. 



3,* C- Cdrvi (Common Caraway). — lioot spindle-shape ; stem 

 I — 2 feet high, much branched ; leaves bipionate, cut into hnear 



CARUM niAjiis {Cni//j!/on Fig-nut). 



