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partial umbeis containing but few flowers, some quite sessile, others 
on pedicels varying from 1 to 6 lines in length. Flowers small, white. 
Fruit 14 to 2 lines long, often curved by the abortion of one of the 
carpels. Petroselinum segetum, Hoffm. 
In fields and waste places, dispersed over centr al Hurope and western 
Asia, but apparently wanting both in the north and in the south. In 
Britain only in southern and central England. /'l. summer and autumn. 
3. ©. verticillatum, Koch. (fig. 412). Whorled C.—Perennial stock 
short and thick, covered with the decayed bases of old leafstalks, the 
fibrous roots slightly thickened, the erect annual stems 1 to 13 feet high. 
Leaves mostly radical, consisting of from 12 to 20 pairs of opposite seg- 
ments, about 2 or 3 lines long, divided to the base into a number of fine 
subulate lobes, so as to appear like whorls or clusters of segments placed ~ 
at regular distances along the common stalk, the whole leaf being 4 to 
6 inches long. Stem-leaves similar but few and small. Umbels terminal, 
not large, of 8 or 10 rays. Involucres, both general and partial, of several 
very small, linear bracts. 
In heaths and bogs, in western Europe, from the Spanish peninsula to 
Belgium. In Britain, common in some parts of Wales and Ireland, and 
in Western Scotland. Fl. summer and autumn. 
4, ©. Carvi, Linn. (fig. 413). Caraway.—A biennial forming a tap 
root, and perhaps occasionally a perennial stock. Stem erect, branched, 
= to 2feet high. Leaves witha tather long sheathing footstalk, pinnate, 
with several pairs of segments, which are sessile, but once or twice 
pinnate, with short linear lobes ; in a leaf of 3 or 4 inches, the lowest or 
next to the lowest segments are about 3 of an inch long, the others dimi- 
nishinge gradually to the top. Upper leaves smaller and less divided. 
Umbels of about 8 or 10 rays, either without involucres, or with 1 or 2 
small linear bracts. Carpels (commonly called Caraway seeds) about 2 
lines long, linear-oblong, and usually curved, with the ribs prominent. 
In meadows and moist pastures, in the greater part of Hurope and 
Russian and central Asia, from the Arctic regions to the Mediterranean 
and Himalaya, more rare in western Hurope. Naturalised in many parts 
of Britain; having been long cultivated for its aromatic carpels. £7. 
spring and early summer. 
5. ©. Bulbocastanum, Koch. (fig. 414). Zuberows C._—Resembles 
he Conopodium denudatum, and like that species, the stock forms globular 
as, und tubers, known by the name of Harthnuts or Pignuts. Radical 
leaves (which usually disappear at the time of flowering) twice or three 
times ternate; the segments ail stalked and pinnately divided into a o 
small number of linear lobes, less unequal than in Conopodiwm denudatum. | 
Involucres always present, consisting of a few very fine bracts. COarpels 
like those of C. Carvi, but more slender, with the ribs rather less pro- 
minent, although more so than in Conopodium denudatum, and the face 
of the seed is flat or slightly concave, not furrowed as in the Conopodium. 
Vittas single, under each interstice. Bunium Bulbocastanum, Linn. 
In dry pastures, on banks, roadsides, &c., especially in limestone dis- 
tricts, in central and southern Europe, and central Asia, scarcely extend- 
ing into central Germany. In Britain, not generally diffused, but said 
to be abundant in some parts of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and — 
adjoining counties. Not recorded from Ireland. #1. summer. — . 
184 PE UMBELLATE FAMILY. 
