Genus 5. 



CARROT FAMILY. 



I. Scandix Pecten- Veneris L. Venus'- or 



Lady's-comb. Shepherd's-needle. 



Fig. 3107. 



Scandix Pecten-Veneris L. Sp. PI. 256, 1753. 



Pubescent, stem 6'-i8' high, branched, the 

 branches ascending. Leaves 2-3-pinnately dis- 

 sected, the lobes acute, less than 4" wide; lower 

 leaves long-petioled ; involucre none ; involucels' 

 of several lanceolate bracts sometimes 2-3-lobed 

 at the apex; flowers very nearly sessile; fruiting 

 carpels 4"-6" long, strongly ribbed, terminated by 

 a straight flat beak ii'-2i' long, about l" wide, 

 its edges with stiff ascending hairs. 



In waste places, northern New Jersey to the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia and in ballast about the sea-ports. 

 Fugitive from Europe or Asia. May-July. Old 

 English names, pink or Adam's-needle, beggar's-, 

 crake- or crow-needles, d'evil's-darning-needles, 

 hedge-hog, needle-chervil, poukenel. 



6. WASHINGTONIA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 176. 1818. 



[OsMORRHizA Raf. loc. cit. 1818.] 



Perennial herbs with fleshy clustered thickish aromatic roots, decompound leaves, and 

 loose few-rayed umbels of white flowers. Involucre and involucels of few narrow bracts, 

 or none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals incurved at the apex. Stylopodium small, conic. 

 Fruit narrow, linear or oblong-linear, short-beaked, compressed, more or less bristly along 

 the ribs, attenuated at the base. Carpels S-angular, slightly flattened dorsally, the ribs acute 

 and nearly equal; oil-tubes obsolete or none. [In honor of George Washington.] 



About 15 species, natives of North America, eastern Asia and western South Ameri'ca. Besides 

 the following about 8 others occur on the west coast and in the Rocky Mountains. Type species : 

 Myrrhis Claytoni Michx. 



Involucels of several persistent bracts. 



Style and stylopodium J4" long or less. i. W. Claytoni. 



Style and stylopodium i"-2" long. 2. W. longistylis. 



Involucels none. 



Fruit beaked ; stylopodium conic. - 3. W. divaricata. 



Fruit blunt ; stylopodium depressed. 4- ^- obtusa. 



Washingtonia Claytoni (Michx.) Britton. Woolly or Hairy Sweet-Cicely. 



Sweet Javril. Fig. 3108. 



Myrrhis Claytoni Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, i : 170. 1803. 

 Osmorrhisa brevistylis DC. Prodr. 4: 232. 1830. 

 O. Claytoni Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 690. 1879. 

 W. Claytoni Britton in Britt. & Brown, III. Fl. 2 : 530. 1897. 



Erect, at length widely branched above, ii°-3'' high, 

 villous-pubescent throughout, especially when young. 

 Lower leaves long-petioled, large, sometimes 1° wide, 

 ternately decompound, the segments ovate or oval, 

 incised-dentate; upper leaves nearly sessile, less com- 

 pound; umbels long-peduncled, 2-6-rayed ; rays divari- 

 cate, 1-2' long in fruit; involucels of several subulate 

 bracts; pedicels 3"-8" long; fruit about 6" long, about 

 l" wide ; style and stylopodium I" long, the stylopodium 

 slender-conic. 



In woods, Nova Scotia to South Dakota, North Carolina, 

 Alabama, Illinois. Nebraska and Kansas. Ascends to 4000 

 ft. in Virginia. May-June. 



