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This genus consists of perennial herbs of Europe, especially of the 

 Mediterranean region, of Western Asia and the Canary isles. 



IV. THE CAEAWAY SEKIES. 



The Caraways^ {Garum) are umbelliferce with hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous flowers, regular in the middle of the inflorescence, irre- 

 gular in the corolla at the circumference, in fact organized like those 



Carum Carui. 



Fig. 118. Fruit ©. 



Fig. 119. Trans, sect, of fruit. 



of the Carrots or Peucedans, But the receptacle, sacciform with 

 narrow opening, is, both in the flower and in the fruit of C. Garui ^ 

 (fig. 118, 119), the species best known, oblong and laterally com- 

 pressed, that is perpendicular to the partition separating the cells. 

 The two mericarps are glabrous, pentagonal, with five equal, obtuse, 

 slightly prominent prim.ary ridges. The marginal ridges touch the 

 corresponding ones of the other carpel, and there is only a sUght 



1 T. Inst. 306, t. 160.— Carum L. Gen. n. 365. 

 —J. Gen. 219.— Koch, ITmbeU. 121.— DO. Mem. 

 41 ; Prodr. it. 114. — Spach, Suit, d Buffon, viii. 

 193.— Endl. Gen. n. 4406.— B. H. Gen. 890, n. 

 56. — H. Bif. Adansonia, xii. 176. — Hook. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 680. — Careum Auans. Fam. Fl. n. 95. 



' L. Spec. 378. — Seseli Cani Lamk. Fl. Fr. 

 iii. 435 ; III. t. 202, fig. 3. — Seseli Carvi Soop. 

 Fl. Cam. ed. 2, n. 361. — ^pittm Carvi Cbantz, 

 Fl. Austr. 218. — Bunitm Carvi Bieb. Fl. Taur- 

 Cauc. i. 211. — Ligusticim, Carvi B,oih.,FI. Germ. 

 i. 124. 



