Refugium Botanicum. | : [| November, 1871. 
TAB. 299. 
Natural Order UMBELLIFER2. 
Tribe DAUCINEA. 
Genus Daucus, Linn. 
D. montanus (Willd. in Schultes Syst. Veg. vi. 482). Annua vel 
biennis, pedalis vel ultra, copiose ramosa caulibus retrorsum 
hispidis, folus petiolatis decompositis segmentis ultimis per- 
parvis lnearibus vel subspathulatis acutis, umbellis 9—12 
longe inequaliter pedunculatis foliis multis reductis 2—3- 
pinnatifidis bracteatis, umbellulis 9—12-floris pedicellatis brac- 
teolis multis sepissime simplicibus linearibus, fructibus ob- 

longis lateraliter subcompressis oblongis jugis primarus dense 
muricatis setis uncinatis.—D. toriloides, D.C. Prodr. iv. 214. 
Stretches from Mexico southward along the Andes to Chili 
and Patagonia. 
An annual or biennial herb, reaching a foot or more in 
height, copiously branched at the crown of the root; the stems 
rather thickly clothed with deflexed gray bristles. Petioles an 
inch to three inches long, dilated gradually to a clasping base. 
Leaves decompound (four to five times pinnatifid), with opposite 
stalked ascending pinne, and linear or subspathulate acute ulti- 
mate segments half a line to a line and a half long; herbaceous in 
texture, green on both sides, slightly pubescent, the lowest three 
to four inches long. Umbels up to a dozen, on Jong nearly equal 
peduncles bracteated by a whori of two to three times pinnatifid 
reduced leaves. Umbellules eight- to twelve-flowered, with a 
whorl of simple linear casually compound bracteoles. Pedicels 
unequal, two to six lines long. Petals subequal, very minute, 
much incurved at the tip. Fruit oblong, one-eighth of an inch 
long, slightly compressed from the side, the primary ridges 
copiously muricated with hooked prickles as long as the thick- 
ness of the mericarp. 
Tas. 299.—1, an umbel; 2, a single flower; 3, fruit; 4, horizontal 
section of fruit: all magnified.—J. G. B. 

A small annual species of carrot, interesting only to the 
botanist. I raised it from seeds sent me by Mr. C. Reed, who 
collected them at Mendoza, Chili. The plant requires only the 
open air, where its seeds ripen freely.—W. W.S. 

