124 WILD FLOWERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 
numerous, and deeply lobed to the midrib, so long as to reach the flowers ; those round each 
little flower cluster numerous, small, and pointed, usually entire ; the fruit covered with prickles, 
the entire clusters becoming deeply hollow, and closed in by the lobed bracts; the stem 1-3 feet 
high, erect, hairy, and tough; and the leaves hairy, divided to the midrib into several pairs 
of leaflets and 1 terminal one, and similarly sub-divided once or twice into narrow lobed leaflets 
(bi- or tri-imparipinnate). [ Plate 59. 
Common. Fields, waysides, waste places. July — August. Biennial. 
Seaside Carrot. (Daueus gummifer, Lam.) — A species very similar to the 
Common Carrot (Daueus Carota), but with the clusters flat or rounded in fruit, the stems thicker 
and more prostrate, and the leaves rather fleshy. 
Rare. Sea-shores in the south of England. July — August. Biennial. 
BUR-PARSLEY. (CAUCALIS, LINN.) — Flowers white or pink, usually in clusters of shortly- 
stalked flowers, all rising from the same point on longer stalks, which longer stalks have one 
common starting-point on the main flowering-stalk (compound umbels). Bracts o, or few, 
surrounding the entire cluster, 2-3, narrow and pointed, surrounding each little flower cluster. 
Calyx with 5 teeth ; petals 5, with the tip bent inwards, apparently notched ; stamens 5 ; carpels 2. 
Fruit oval, flattened slightly from side to side, covered with rows of prickles, composed of 2 
united cases, each containing 1 hanging seed (cremocarp). Hairy herbs, with leaves divided to 
the midrib into several pairs of leaflets and 1 terminal one (imparipinnate), which are some- 
times again and again similarly divided (bi- or tri-imparipinnate), and the leaf-stalks sheathing 
at the base. 
* Great Bur-Parsley. (Caucalis latifolia, Linn.)— Not a native. As just described. 
The flowers large, rose-pink, the outer petals of each cluster larger; the fruit large, oblong, 
with rows of long, straight, or hooked prickles ; the stem 1-2 feet high, erect, hairy, furrowed, and 
hardly branched ; the leaves divided to the midrib into several pairs of lance-shaped, toothed 
leaflets and 1 terminal one (imparipinnate) ; and the leaf-stalks sheathing at the base. 
Very rare. Naturalised in cornfields on chalky soil in the south-east of England. July. Annual. 
Small Bur-Parsley. (Caucalis daucoides, Linn.)— Flowers small, white or pink, each 
entire cluster consisting of from 2-4 small clusters of flowers, of which the outer petals are some- 
times larger ; bracts o or few ; fruit large, oblong, covered with rows of hooked prickles. [As just 
described in the genus Caucalis.] Stem 6-18 inches high, erect, branched, and furrowed; the 
leaves divided to the midrib into several pairs of blunt, shortly-lobed leaflets and 1 terminal one 
(imparipinnate), the lower ones being again and again similarly divided (bi- or tri-imparipinnate) ; 
and the leaf-stalks sheathing at the base. 
Rare. Cornfields on chalky soils in the south-east of England. June — July. Annual. 
Spreading’ Hedge-Parsley. (Caucalis arvensis, Huds.) — Flowers white, tinged with 
pink, each entire cluster on a long, slender stalk, and composed of from 2-8 small clusters of flowers, 
the outer petals being slightly larger; bracts 1 or o, round the entire cluster; the fruit oval, 
covered with short hooked bristles. [As just described in the genus Caucalis.] The stem 
6 inches to 1 foot high, erect, much branched, hairy ; and the leaves hairy, of the upper stem 
divided to the midrib into 1 or 2 pairs of lobed, toothed leaflets and 1 terminal one ; of the 
lower stem similarly sub-divided (bi-imparipinnate) ; the leaf-stalks sheathing at the base. 
Upright Hedge-Parsley. (Caucalis Anthriscus, Huds.)— Flowers white, often tinged 
with pink, each entire cluster on long, slender stalks, and composed of from 2-8 small clusters of 
flowers ; several small and pointed bracts surrounding all the clusters ; the fruit oval, covered 
