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41. UMBELLACEJE. 
convex ; rays hispid round striated slender very numerous and 
unequal, the outer much lengthened spreading or ascending and 
strongly incurved in fr. Gen. inv. mostly considerably shorter 
than the outer rays pectinately multifid with finely linear acu- 
minate segm. hispid beneath, and broad widely membranously 
bordered stalks and main divisions Partial inv. 3- or 5-fid, the 
inner simple linear with broad w. membranous edges ; all hispid 
beneath and as long as the rays or longer. FI. dull w. not 
turning y. in drying, reddish in the bud, the inner small, outer 
large radiant ; central abortive fi. or umbellet large fleshy 
stalked prominent conspicuous, at first crimson, then fine dark 
atropurpureous or almost black, its pedic. very much shorter 
than its ped. and with several 3-fidly pinnate or 2 or 3 linear 
erect sheathing broadly w. -bordered bractlets and 2 or 3 inner 
bristles at its base. Sometimes there are more than one such 
abortive umbellet or fl. Fr. oval or oval-oblong 3-4 mill, long, 
half as wide without the bristles which are lf-2 mill, long 
slender subulate and distinct down to but subconfluent and 
compressed at the base, subcapitate with 1-4 very minute stel- 
late recurved points, shining bright chestnut. Carpophore free 
simple entire. 
This is the only Daucus found either by Bourgeau or myself 
in any of the Canary Islands : for his D. parviflorus PI. Can. 
no. 401 from Gr. Canary in BH. differs from his Tenerifan I). 
aureus no. 818 in no essential point, being only somewhat less 
robust and smoother than usual with the st. rather less villous, 
whilst his D. aureus no. 818 is perfectly the more robust and 
hispid-villous ordinary state of the Mad. pi. In Tenerife it is 
not uncommon, especially about Souzal between Laguna and 
Orotava. I found it also in Palma and Gr. Canary. Hence it 
is very probably both, as it is certainly one, of Webb’s two 
very imperfectly described Canarian I)auci referred by Prof. 
Parlatore in Phytogr. Can. to two distinct Algerian sp. of Des- 
fontaines (I). parviflorus and I). aureus ) with y. fl. It is as- 
suredly however a mere form of J). Carota L. with less finely 
divided foliage, and all the lfts. and ultimate segm., even of the 
uppermost 1., broader or shorter and more leafy and crowded 
than usual. Thus indeed originally I had named it, though I 
was led afterwards erroneously to regard it as the normal state 
of certain specimens of J). neglcctus previously found by Webb in 
1828. Gerard’s fig. at p. 873 in habit and foliage (except the 
two upper 1. with linear segm.) exactly represents the pi. 
