PLANT DESCRIPTION 241 
Habit—A garden vegetable with smal! white 
flowers in compound umbels. 
Root.—Fleshy tap-root stores food for flowers and 
fruit in second year, as do many members of this order. 
Stem.—Herbaceous, erect, hollow, ribbed, hairy, 
ereen. 
UMBELLIFERAE 
FIGI36 
VERTICAL: SECTION: OF CARROT - FRUIT -SPLIT TING 
CARROT: FLOWER 
FLORAL: DIAGRAM . TRANSVERSE ‘SECTION: OF* FRUIT. 
Leaves.—Radical, pinnately compound, with large 
sheathing bases, exstipulate. 
Inflorescence——A compound umbel, bracts form 
an involuere at the base of the main umbel with partial 
involueres (involucels) at the base of all secondary 
umbels. 
