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3486 Stem smooth with tumid joints, hairy at base 
3487 Stem scabrous, joints tumid 
3488 Stem equal. Leaflets cut acute. Fruit with two awns 
3489 Stem equal. Leaflets cordate serrate entire. Fruit with two awns 
3490 Leaves ternate smooth. Radical leaflets about 3-Iobed, Cauline rhomb, ovate cut finely serrate 
3491 Stem above smooth, Joints tumid. Leaves biternate pubescent. Styles persistent 
3492 Stem equal. Leaves supra-decompound. Involucres colored 
3493 Stem equal. Leaflets cut. Seeds furrowed colored awnless 
3494 Radical leaves lanceolate serrate, floral many cut, Stem dichotomous 
3495 Leaves gladiate serrate spiny. Flowers undivided. Stem simple 
3496 Leaves linear-lanceolate ensiform very long, Leaflets reflexed and paleas trifid, Heads panicled 
3497 Leaves all ovate cordate on very short stalks toothed. Stem virgate colored upwards 
3498 Radical leaves oval flat crenate, Heads stalked 
3499 Radical leaves oblong cut. Stem dichotomous. Heads sessile 
3500 Radical leaves cordate : cauline palmate with the auricles reflexed, Palea? tricuspidate 
3501 Rad. Ivs. obi. lane, toothed spiny. Stem trichotomous, Lvs. of involucre entire larger than the heads spiny 
3502 Radical leaves roundish plaited spiny, Heads stalked, Palete 3-tootlied 
3503 Radical leaves stem-clasping pinnate lanceolate 
3504 Leaves sessile digitate spiny very small. Stem slender and weak dichotomous. Heads sessile 
3505 Radical leaves trilid at the base somewhat pinnate 
3506 Rad. lvs. cordate obi. obt. cren. lobed. Branches col. Lvs. of the involucrum very long stiff pungent entire 
3507 Leaves palmate cut, Bractes stiff pinnatifid pungent, Stem thick 
3508 Radical leaves cordate : cauline ternate cut. Involucres spiny pinnated ciliated 
3599 Radical and cauline leaves alternate 3-parted twice trifid. Involucres subulate many-leaved spiny 
S510 Lower leaves palmate. Lobes trifid cut-serrate. Florets all sessile 
3511 Leaves all compound subternate. Leaflets ovate attenuate at base mucronate serrate, Florets all sessile 
3512 Leaves all digitate, Leaflets oblong cut-serrate, Male flowers numerous stalked 
3513 Leaflets subulate prickly entire 
3514 Leaflets cut unarmed 
3515 Seeds hispid. Stalks nerved beneath 
3516 Fruit hispid with compressed bristles, Leaflets dilated rounded fleshy hairy. Umbels in fruit convex 
3517 Seeds hispid. Central floret sterile fleshy. Common receptacle hemisphjerical 
3518 Leaves shining, Stem hairy. Leafstalks smooth. No sterile central floret 
3519 Stem rough simple, Lvs. bipinn. Leaflets rather whorled many-cleft rigid. Bristles of fruit hairy purple 
3520 Rays of the involucre flat. Segments recurved 
3521 Fruit large very prickly 
3522 Stem and lvs. bipin. vil. Leafl. ovate lobed toothed. Involucres very broad. Prickles of fruit dilated at base 
3523 Involucres each 5-leaved, One leaflet twice as large as the others 
3524 Umbels trifid leafless, Umbellules 3-leaved 3-seeded 
352.5 Universal umbel trifid, partial 5-seeded, Leaves pinnated serrated 
3526 Universal umbel about 5-cleft, partial 3-seeded, Leaves supra-decompound, and decumbent stem villous 
3527 Umbels spreading. Partial leaflets supra-decompound cut with linear segments. Fruit wooUv 
(2 Fruit bristly 
3528 Universal involucre about 3-leaved, Umbel trifid, Involucels 3-leaved 
3529 Common involucre scarcely any. Umbel bifid. Involucres 5-leaved 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
involucrum, and indeed of the whole plant. Very much like an Ervngium, once said to have been found in 
England. 
625. Daucus. From Sawiw, to make hot ; on account of its eflTects in medicine. D. Carota (from Kar, red, in 
Celtic), is well known for its esculent root. There are several varieties : the largest, and that best adapted for 
field culture, is called the Altringham, from a village of that name in Cheshire. The early horn and orange 
are the best garden sorts. The seeds do not retain their vegetative powers more than a year, for which reason 
the cautious cultivator ought to prove them before sowing. The last week of March and first of April is the 
w sowing for a main crop. On farms where a deep sandy loam occurs, few crops of the root kind 
attord a more valuable return. In Norfolk and Suffolk they are a good deal in use as a field crop, and especially 
near Lowestoft in the latter county. 
f^n?" ^"■^'^^i^^- According to Linnseus, derived from xtu, to trail along ; on account of the low habit 
m ^the plants. It is supposed that Pliny's Caucalis was the same as the Caucalis grandiflora of the present 
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