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PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



canadensis, 2, s. radical leaves compound, leaflets ovate. — . 



wm. 



A larger plant than No. 1, being- often two and an half feet 

 high. The fruit, which is a kind of burr, is much larger than 

 that of No. 1. On the Wissahickon in woods, abundant. I 

 have not met with it elsewhere. Perennial. June. 



tarota. 



131. DAUCUS. Gen. pi. 466. (~Umbe?Ufer<e.J 



Fruit oblong, partly solid, ribs ciliated with 

 hispid hairs or barbed bristles. Involucrum 

 pin natifid. — J\Tutt. 



1. D. seeds hispid, petioles nerved beneath; seg- 

 ments of the leaf narrow, linear, acute. — La- 

 mark, 



Wild Carrot 



Well known to every body, as an inhabitant of grassy ways, 

 neglected lanes, road sides, and the borders of cultivated fields. 

 Flowers white, in large spreading umbels. This plant has a 

 place, for its medicinal virtues, in Woodville's Medical Botany, 

 and other works in the Materia Medica. Originally introduced 

 from Europe, but now every where naturalized in the United 

 States. Perennial. All summer. 



132. AMMI. Gen.pl. 467. fUmbellifer^J 



Flowers radiated, all hermaphrodite. Petals 

 cordately inflected. " Fruit oblong, corti- 

 cate, angular, ridges 5, obtuse, intervals 

 convex." Sprengel. Involucrum pinna- 

 tifid.— Nutt. 



eapMaceum. 1. A. stem branched; leaves all compoundly ca- 

 pillaceous, many cleft : involucre many cleft, 

 shorter than the umbel,* seeds smoothish.— r 

 Fursh, 

 A. majus, Walt. 



