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^VEEDS AXD USEFUL TLAIsTS. 



Diner face of tne seeds flat (not hollowed out) , where the two halves 

 of the fruit join. 



Fruit with long prickles. Umbel becoming coEcave. 1. Dacccu. 



Fruit not prickly bat winged on the margin. 



Flowers j-ellow. All alike. 2. 

 Flowers white, the outer corollas larger. S. 

 Flowers white, all alike ; leaves pinnate or 3-foliolate. 4. 

 Fruit neither prickly nor winged on the margin. 



Flowers yellow"; leaflets long and narrow. 5. 

 Flowers white. 



Umbels usually without involucre or involucels. 



Divisions of the leaves very slender. 6. 

 Divisions or leaflets wedge-shaped. 7. 

 Divisions or leaflets ovate or lanceolate. 8. 

 Umbels with 3-leaved involucels but no involucre. 9. 

 Umbels with both involucre and involucels. 



Leaves decompound, finely divided. 10. 

 Leaves 2-3 times compound ; leaflets coarse. 11. 

 Inner face of the seed grooved or hollowed out dow^n the whole length 

 of the inner face. 



Leaves finely cut, with an unpleasant odor. . 12. 



Inner face of the seed curved in at the top and bottom. 



Flowers white. 13. 



PASTIXACi. 



Archemora. 



FOEXICULUil, 



Carot. 



APitru. 



^GOPODirJI. 

 ^THCSA. 



PETROSErnXM 

 CiCCTA. 



CORLtN"DRUSI. 



1. DAU'CUS, Tournef. Cakrot. 



[DauJcos, the ancient Greek name of the Carrot.] 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla irregular. Fruit ovoid oblong, somewhat 

 dorsally compressed. Carpels with the 5 primary ribs slender and 

 minately bristly, the 4 secondary ribs equal, prominently winged, and each 

 pectinately cleft into a single row of prickles with an oil tube under each 

 of them. Involvxre many-leaved ; leaflets pinnatifid. Involucels many- 

 leaved ; leaflets trifid or entire. Biennials with leaves bi- or tri-pinnately 

 dissected. 



1. D. Caro'ta, L. Stem hispid; leaves 2 - 3-pinnatifid ; segments pin- 

 natifid, the lobes lanceolate and cuspidate ; leaflets of the involucre 

 nearly as long as the umbel ; prickles about equal to the diameter of the 

 oblong-oval fruit. 



Carrot Daucus. Carrot. Wild Carrot. 



Fr. Carotte. Germ. Die Moehre. Span. Zanahoria. 



Plant greyish-green, hispidly pilose. Root fusiform, yellowish or orange-colored. 

 (Sfeni 2-3 or 4 feet high, rather slender, terete, sulcate-striate, branching. Leaves twice 

 or thrice pinnatifid ; segments half an inch to an inch long, much incised. Umbels on long 

 peduncles or naked brandies, nearly level on the top wlieu in flower — concave when in 

 fruit. Petals white or ochroleucous — occasionally with a purplish tinge — the central floret 

 of the umbel often abortive, with fleshy dark purple peta's. Iruit very hispid, the 

 prickles on the secondary ribs somewhat "barbed. 



Gardens, fields and road-sides : introduced. Xative of Europe and the East. Fl. July- 

 Sept. JV. Sept. -October. 



Obs. The var. sativa, DC, or common Garden Carrot — with a large 

 fleshy yellow or reddish orange-colored root^ — is much cultivated as a 

 culinary vegetable, for soups, &:c. In Europe, it is bighly esteemed as 

 a food for Milch Cows, and other stock, during winter : but in this 

 country, the root culture, for such objects, is but little attended to, 

 probably less than it ought to be. The wild variety is extensively natu- 



