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4- C Biilboiastanum ( ''uberous 





iobes ; iinihch rather large and irregular, with rarely more than 

 one l<yad : //(nct-fs white. The aromatic cari)els are the well- 

 known " caraway seeds." It i.s a naturalised escape from culti- 

 vation. — I'l fune, July. Bienni.il. 



Caraway). — Ikup/ Mack, 

 tuberous, as large as a 

 •chestnut ; stem erect, 

 I — 2 feet high, much 

 branched ; /fiwfs 2 — 3- 

 pinnate ; Icafhis cut into 

 few slender lobes ; bracts 

 and bractcoles many, 

 small, narrow ; flouiers 

 white. Chalky fields in 

 Cambridgeshire, Bed- 

 fordshire, Hertfordshire, 

 •and Buckinghamshire, 

 and so abundant about 

 Baldock, in Hertford- 

 shire, that " the farmers 

 turn their pigs upon the 

 fallows to feed upon the 

 roots." (Hooker and 

 Anion) — Fl. June, 

 July. Perennial. 



15. Si'soN (Stone 



Parsley). — Differing 



from CdriDti chiefly in 



ha\ing less divided 



^S^^\ W if taii/i/w /eoTes and very 



^/M&\'^\ fi short, club-shaped rv//.(\ 



(Name, the Greek for 

 some allied plant.) 



1 . 6' . .1 )>! b 111 II m 



{Stonewort, Stone Bars- 

 ley). — A slender plant, 

 much like l\-trosi-/i/niin 

 sb\s:etiim, 2 — 3 feet high, witii a wiry, branched stem ; pinnate or 

 bipinnate leaves with narrow leajlets : umbels few-rayed, irregular ; 

 liraets 2 — 4, subulate ; seoioidary lunbels small ; bracteoles 2 — 4 ; 

 jLnvcrs cream-coloured, \cry small. Damp |)laces on a chalky 

 soil. The whole plant has a nauseous smell. — Fl. August, 

 September. Biennial. 



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