The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The leaves are large, and divided in a hand- 
fome manner into numerous fmaU fegments : and 
they are lightly hairy, and of a pleaiant green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and five feet high. 
The leaves on it refemblc thofe from the root ; 
but they are fnialler. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in large umbells ; and they are little and white : 
fometimes they are lightly tinged with red. 
The feeds ai-e light, hairy, and of a pale brown. 
It is found wild in Scotland near the fea- 
coalls, where the root is yellow and hard ; but 
the plant in all things refemblcs the garden kind. 
This is the original carrot : the red-rooted kind 
is only a variety, though fome have named it as 
a diftinft fpecies. 
The root is nourifliing and wholcfome. The 
feeds are diuretick, 
3. Wild Carrot. 
T)aucus fylvejlris. 
The root is long and white, of a fweetifh, buj 
foraewhat acrid tafte, and hung with a few fibres. 
The leaves are large, and of a pale green, finely 
divided into fegments, and hairy. 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, and is 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root ; 
but they have fewer divifions. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches 
in little, round umbells ; and they are imall and 
white. 
The feeds are hairy ; and they form a hollow 
bed, like the neft of a bird. 
It is common by way fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Baiihine calls k Daiicus fylvejlris temufolia 
Diojcorldis. 
The feeds of this plant are excellent in the gra- 
vel, and in obftrudtions ot the vifcera ; in the 
beginnings of dropfies, and in the jaundice. 
They operate powertully by urint. 
4. Shining-leaved Wild Carrot. 
Daucus fnar'itimus foliis lucldis. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, and divided into 
beautiful fegments : they are ot a fine green, and 
of a gloffy furface. 
The ftalk is upright, branched, and two feet 
high 1 its leaves ftand alternately, and refemble 
thofe from the root. 
The nuwcrs af^ fmall and white ; and the feeds 
are rough, and of a pale brown. 
We have it on our fouthern coalfs. It flowers 
in July. 
Kay calls it Daucus maritiimis lucidus. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Candy Carrot. 
IDaucus Creticus. 
The root is long, (lender, and white. 
The firft leaves are deculy divided into a mul- 
titude of fegments ■, which are very narrow and 
pointed ; and the whole leaf is of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The ilalk is ribbed, upright, two feet high, 
and divided into numerous branches. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root, 
but that they are fmaller. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are oblong, hairy, and of a very 
pale colour. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Daucus foliis fccnkuli tenulf 
firms. Others, Daucus Crelkus. 
The feeds are ufed in medicine : they are diu- 
retick and deobfl:ruent, and are ingredients in 
many compofitions. Nature varies a little in the 
charatfters of this plant •, and Linnsus makes it 
a fpecies of another genus, but the feeds fliew 
it a daucus. 
GENUS XXV. 
BASTARD PARSLEY. 
C A U C A L I S. 
THE flowers are placed in little umbells, on a fev/ branches, with more numerous fubdivi- 
fions : there are fome narrow leaves, both at the bafe of the larger branches, and of the 
fmailer. Each flower is formed of five petals ; which are fomewhat bent, and fplit at the top. The 
cup is divided into five pointed fegments. The feeds are of an oval, or fomewhat oblong figure, 
and are covered with a kind of pricl-cles. 
Linna;us places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
each flower. 
1 . Purple-flowered great Baftard Parfley. 
Caitcalts major fwfculis rubevtihus. 
The root is long, (lender, and white. 
The firft leaves are large, and of a pale green : 
they are beautifully divided in a pinnated man- 
ner into fliort fegments, which are fcrrated and 
ftiarp-pointed. 
The ftalks are two feet high, branched, and 
ftrlated, and of a pale green. 
The 
