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xxxvni. umbellifeRjE. 
[JEgopodium. 
1. S. Am6mum L. ( Hedge B.): E. B. t. 954. 
Chalky, rather moist ground, under hedges, in England. Near 
Coldstream, Scotland. $ . 8, 9. — Stem 2 — 3 feet high. Lower 
leaves pinnate, with lobed inciso-serrate ovate leaflets; upper ones 
cut into narrow segments. Petals broad. Fruit roundish-ovate, 
pungent and aromatic. 
10. TEgopodium Linn. Gout-Weed. (Tab. I. f. 10.) 
Fruit oblong, crowned with the conical bases of the deflexed 
styles. Carpels with 5 slender ridges, without vittce. Cal.-teeth 
obsolete. Pet. obcordate, with an indexed point. (Involucre 
0.) — Named from «i?, aiyog, a goat, and ttovq, a foot; the leaves 
being cleft something like the foot of that animal. 
1. iE. Podagruria L. ( common G., or Bishop-weed ) : E. B. 
t. 940. 
Gardens and wet places, fl. 6 — 8. — A foot and a half high. 
Radical leaves twiee ternate, upper ones ternate ; leaflets ovate, acu- 
minate, unequally serrate. The creeping rhizome is pungent and aro- 
matic. Although now among our most common and noxious weeds, 
it appears to have been originally introduced by the monks. 
11. Carum Linn. Caraway. (Tab. I. f. 11.) 
Fruit oblong, crowned with the depressed bases of the de- 
flexed styles. Carpels with 5 ribs, and single vittce between 
them. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. obcordate with an inllected 
point. — Name derived, according to Pliny, from that of the 
country, Caria ; but more probably from the Celtic or Gaelic 
carhli, a ship, from the shape of the carpels. 
1. C. *Cdrui L. ( common C.) ; root fusiform, stem branched, 
partial involucre none, universal none or 1 -leaved. E. B. 
t. 1503. 
Meadows and pastures in several places both in England and 
Scotland. $. 6. — Stem 1 — 2 feet high. Leaves doubly pinnate, 
cut into linear segments, of which the lowermost are decussate. 
Umbels dense. Carpels .agreeably aromatic, and well known as cara- 
way seeds. Carpophore bipartite. , 
2. C. Bulbocdstanum Koch ( tuberous C.) ; root, tuberous, 
general and partial involucres of many linear-lanceolate leaves, 
leaves tripinnate, their segments linear acute. Bunium L. : 
E. B. S. t. 2862. 
Fields. Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire; and over the whole of 
the chalk district from Bvgrave, near Baldock. in Hertfordshire, to 
the neighbourhood of Dunstable (20 miles), so plentiful near Bal- 
dock, that the farmers turn their pigs upon the fallows to feed upon 
the root. 6, 7. 
