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PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
Canadensis, 
cai'ota. 
capillacemn. 
£• S, radical leaves compoimd, leaflets ovate. — . 
Willd. 
A larger plant than No. 1, being often two and an half feet 
high. The fruit, wdiich is a kind of burr, is much larger than 
that of No. 1. On the Wissahickon in woods, abundant. I 
have not met with it elsewhere. Perennial. June. 
isi. DAUCUS. Gen. pi. 466. CV’mbelUfer<e.J 
Fruit oblong, partly solid, ribs ciliated with 
hispid hairs or barbed bristles. Involucrum. 
pinnatifld. — JVutt. 
1. D. seeds hispid, petioles nerved beneath; seg- 
ments of the leaf narrow, linear, acute. — La- 
mark, 
Wild Carrot. 
Well known to every body, as an inhabitant of grassy ways, 
neglected lanes, road sides, and the borders of cultivated fields. 
Plowers white, in large spreading umbels. This plant has a 
place, for its medicinal virtues, in Woodville’s Medical Botany, 
and other works in the Materia Medica. Originally introduced 
from Europe, but now every where naturalized in the United 
States. Perennial. All summer. 
132. AMMI. Gen.pl. 467. fUtubellifer^.J 
Flowers radiated, all hermaphrodite. Petals 
cordately inflected. Fruit oblong, corti- 
cate, angular, ridges 5, obtuse, intervals 
convex.” Sprengel. Involucrum pinna- 
tifid. — JSTutt, 
1. A. stem branched; leaves all compoundly ca- 
pillaceous, many cleft : involucre many cleft, 
shorter than the umbel; seeds smoothisli.—r 
Fursh. 
A. majus, Walt. 
