216 UMBELLIFER^. [TorUis. 



in having the bvislles of the fruit glochidiate or stellately bailied, with several 

 (about 5) minute, deflexed, simple points. The plant has the aroma of the com- 

 mon Carrot, and might by cultivation afford an agreeable variety for the table. 



2. D. maritimus, With. Sea-side Carrot. " Prickles of the 

 fruit usually flattened contiguous and united at the base, leaves 

 tripinnate, leaflets pinnatifid lanceolate fleshy, segments rounded, 

 umbels convex or flat when in seed. 



" a. Petals entire white or fringed with red. E. B. t. 2660. 



" p. Petals fringed greenish yellow."— fir. Fl. p. 178. 



On cliffs, banks, and dry waste ground by the sea, not uncommon. Fl. June — 

 August. ^ . 



E. Med.— In the Undercliff, between Ventnor and St. Lawrence. At Bon- 

 church, in plenty. Abundantly on the steep banks at the upper end of San- 

 down bay, and in all the chalky fields and banks at the back of it and behind the 

 Culvers. 



IV. Med. ■ — On the ledge of the cliffs to the westward of Freshwater Gate, 

 called Rose Hall Green, in great profusion ; apparently the plant intended in 

 Babington's ' Manual,' 2nd ed. p. 145, as probably the D. gingidium of Linn. 

 (or perhaps the D. hispidus of Desfontaines), growing here to an extremely large 

 size, the umbels ofien forming perfect globes, the leaflets varying very much in 

 breadth. 



This plant, which I suppose to be nothing more than a variety of D. Carota, 

 and which is probably commonly mistaken* for the true D. maritimus, is chiefly 

 distinguished from the former by its very stout and densely hispid stem, the very 

 hairy leaves, with broader segments ; the umbels also are usually much larger 

 than in D. Carota, sometimes 4^ inches wide, flat or almost perfectly hemisphe- 

 rical, with or without a coloured abortive flower in the centre, concave in fruit, 

 but less deeply than in the common form of D. Carota ; the unexpanded flowers 

 are mostly of a rose-red colour, but becoming subsequently white. The Rev. G. 

 E. Smith tells me he has observed various gradations between the two forms in 

 this island. 



XXIV. ToBiLis, Aclans. Hedge Parsley. 



" Fruit slightly laterally compressed. Carpels with 3 dorsal 

 inconspicuous bristly ribs, and 2 in the inner face of the carpels, 

 the interstices scarcely prominent, clothed vfith pricldes, each 

 with a single vitta. Albumen furrowed. Petals obcordate, outer 

 ones radiant. (Partial involucre of many leaves)." — Br. Fl. 



1. T. Anthriscti,s,GiBvtn. Upright Hedge Parsley. "Stem erect 

 branched, leaves bipinnate, leaflets lanceolate incise-serrate at- 

 tenuate, umbels stalked terminal, involucres of many small subu- 

 late leaves."— Br. Fl. p. 180. Caucalis, E. B. t. 987. Jacq^. Fl. 

 Aust. iii. 34, t. 261. 



* [This remark is at variance with the entry of tire above stations, under the name 

 of D. maritimus. With. Such discrepancies would of course have been corrected had 

 the lamented author himself finally revised his MSS. for the press. From some 

 critical remarks from his pen, in the ' Phytologist' (Phytol. iii. p. 410), we believe 

 his mature opinion to have been that the various Isle-of-Wight maritime forms of 

 Daucus are not the D. maritimus of Withering, but D. gingidium, Linn., as 

 understood by Babinijton, and D. hispidus, Desf. Both these two latter forms 

 however, as also Withering's plant, he believed to be only varieties of D. Caruta, 

 Linn. — Edrs.'] 



