Pnrt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 140.— Relit. FI. Cant. (3id ed ) p. 113. — Thorn. Fam, 
IK*rb. p.28'2. — Davies’ Welsh Hot. p.27. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 88. — Un-v. FI. 
Edin. p. 71. — Sleph. and Church. Med. Bot. v. ii. t.56. — FI. Devon, pp.48 and 
165. — Johnst. FI. of Berw. v. i. p. 67. — Don’s (Jen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. 
iii. p.354 — Winch’s FI of Northumb. and Durham, p. 18. — Curt. Brt. Entom . 
v. xi. t. 491 . — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 74. — Loud. Encyclop. of Gaid. (new ed.) p. 
835. par. 41 16. — Baxt. Lib. of Agricul. and Hort. Know!. (2od ed.) p.96. — 
Bab. FI. Batn. p. 19. — Mack. Caial. of PI. of Irel. p. 27. — Da&ct's vulgaris, 
Ray’s Svn. p. 218 — Gray’s Nat. A rr. v. ii. p. 498. — Cuucalis carota, Muds. FI. 
Angl (2nd ed.) p. 114. — Pastinaca sylvestris tenuifolia, John. Ger. p. 1028. 
Localities. — In dry pastures, on the borders of fields, and by road-sides. — 
C oimnon. 
Biennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Ri.ot slender, dry, somewhat woody, of a yellowish colour, and 
aromatic, and sweetish taste. Stem from 1 to 3 feet high, upright, 
branched, leafy, hairy or bristly. Leaves alternate, twice or thrice 
pinnate, on broad, concave, ribbed petioles ; leaflets pinnatifid, 
theirsegments narrow, pointed and hairy, especially beneath. Um- 
bels many-rayed, terminating the long leafless branches, solitary, 
large, upright, flat when in flower ; afterwards the external and 
longer rays become contracted and incurved, which renders the 
surface of the umbel concave like a bird’s nest. General Involu- 
crum (fig. 1.) pinnatifid, large, strap-shaped, slender, not so long as 
the umbel ; ■partial ones undivided, or sometimes 3-cleft, mem- 
branous at the edges. Flowers while, except one central neutral 
one in each umbel, which is red ; petals unequal, radiate, and in- 
versely heart-shaped. Fruit (fig. 4.) very rough, with rigid bristles. 
Whole plant aromatic. 
The seeds are aromatic, both in taste and odour. Water digested 
on them becomes impregnated with the latter quality, but it ex- 
tracts but little of their taste. They yield a yellowish essential oil, 
and give out all their virtues to spirit. They have been sometimes 
used as diuretics and carminatives; and are highly recommended 
in calculous complaints. An infusion of them has been found to 
afford relief in sharp fits of the gravel ; and Dr. Carey, in Monthly 
Magazine, vol. 27, adduces his own strongly marked case of the 
cure of the gravel by the infusion of Wild Carrot seeds, taken as 
tea morning and evening. His directions are very particular and 
satisfactory. 
The cultivated Carrot is merely a vaiiety of the wild ; yet Mii.lfu informs us, 
that he endeavoured to improve the latter kind, by growing it in different soils, 
but was never able to effect his purpose: it is therefore probable that we are 
indebted for this delicious and useful vegetable to an accidental growth of seed, 
or to a foreign supply. Carrots are a grateful and nutritious food for all kinds 
of cattle, and well worthy of more general cultivation by the farmer. Cartiage 
horses will work upon them nearly as well as upon oats; but if too long con- 
tinued, or given too freely, cattle may be severely disordered by their diuretic 
effects. Hogs will fatten on them, but such food is in general too expensive. 
Ciickets are very fond of them, and are easily destroyed by a paste of powdered 
arsenic, wheat meal, and scraped carrots, placed near their habitations. A poul- 
tice of the scraped roots has been found to mitigate the pain, and abate the viru- 
lence, of phagedenic and cancerous ulcers. 
For an account of the different varieties of the Garden Carrot, their modes of 
culture, their uses, properties, &c.&c. see Mr. Loudon's valuable Encyclopedia 
of Gardening ; and the volumes of his Gardener's Magazine. See also Bax- 
ter's Lib. of Agricul. and Ilorticul, Knowledge ; and Don’s Gen. Syst. of 
Gard, and Hot. 
