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CA'RUM* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. PENTA'.NDRiAf, Dioy'nia. 
Natural Order. Um BELLI 'FER7E, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 218. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 132. — Lindl. Syn. p. 111.; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of 
Bot. p. 4. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 463. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 517. — 
Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 235. — Umbellatte, 
Linn. — Rosales; sect. Angelicinte; type, Angelicacete; subt. 
Angelicidte ; Burn. Outl.of Bot. v. ii. pp. 614, 770, 773, & 774. 
Gen. Char. Calyx an obsolete margin. Corolla (fig. 1.) of 5 
regular, inversely heart-shaped petals, with inflexed points. Fila- 
ments (see fig. 1 .) 5, about as long as the petals, straight, spreading. 
Anthers roundish, 2-lobed. Germen (fig. 2.) inferior, egg-shaped, 
blunt, more or less oblique. Styles (see fig. 2.) tumid at the base, 
very short in the flower, afterwards elongated, thread-shaped, widely 
spreading. Stigmas bluntish. Floral-receptacle ( stylopodium, 
Hoffm.y annular, depressed. Fruit oblong, compressed at the 
sides, crowned with the floral-receptacle and styles. Carpels 
f seeds, Linn.y (figs. 3 & 4.) with 5, filiform, equal ridges, their 
inner faces plane. Interstices ( channels ) with single vittce. Seeds 
terete (taper), convex on the back, flattish in front. Universal and 
Partial Involucrums various. 
Distinguished from other genera, in the same class and order, by 
the nearly obsolete calyx ; the inversely heart-shaped petals, with 
inflexed points; the laterally compressed, oblong fruit ; the carpels 
with 5, filiform, equal ridges, their inner faces plane ; the channels 
with single vittce ; and the taper, convex seed, flattish in front. 
Two species British. 
CA'RUM CA'RVI. Common Caraway. 
Spec. Char. Root spindle-shaped. Leaves twice pinnate ; leaf- 
lets decussate (in cross pairs), multifid. Stems furrowed. Partial- 
involucrum none ; general involucrum scarcely any. 
Engl. Bot. 1. 1503. — Jacq. FI. Austr. t. 393. — Woodv. Med. Bot. v. i. p. 125. 
t. 45.— Mait. FI. Bust. t. 55. — Linn. Spec. PI. p.378. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 
pt. ii. p. 1470. — lluds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 126. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 330. ; 
Engl. FI. v.ii. p. 86. — With. (7th ed.) v.ii. p. 394. — Lindl. Syn. p. 122.— Hook. 
Brit. FI. p. 127. — Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 169. — Abb. FI. Bedf. p. 67. — Davies’ 
Welsh Bot. p. 30. — Belli. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 126.— Hook. FI. Scot. p. 95. — 
Grev. FI. Edin. p.69. — Winch’s FI. of Northman!), and Durham, p. 20. —Don’s 
Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 28B. — Loud. Kncycl. of Gard. (new ed.) 
p. 877. parag. 4630. — Baxter’s Lib. of Agricul. and Florticul. Knowl. (2nd ed.) 
p. 96. — Thornt. Family Herb, p 302. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Irel. p. 30. ; FL 
Hibern. pt. i. p. 122. — Canon officinale, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p.515. — Carum 
seu Careum, Bay’s Syu. p. 213. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 1034. 
Localities. — In meadows and pastures. A naturalized plant. — Bedfordstu 
Pastures, Thurleigh : Mr. John Payne. — Cambridgesh. Christ College Pieces. 
Stourbridge Fair Green. Meadows near the Windmills, Wisbeach : Itev. It. 
Fig. 1. Corolla, Stamens, and Pistils.— Fig. 2. Germen, Styles, and Stigmas. — 
Figs. 3 & 4. Carpels.— Fig. 5. A transverse section of the same.— All, except 
fig. 3, magnified. 
* From Caria, a district of Asia Minor ; from whence the seeds may have 
been imported as an article of commerce. Withering. 
t See Anchusa sempervirens, folio 48, note t- 
