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C A U C A L I S daucoides.
Small Caucalis or Bajlard Parjley.
P E N T A N D R I A Ligynia.
Gen. Char. Corolla radiate. Fruit nearly oval,
flriated, rough with rigid bridles. Some flowers
abortive.
Spec. Char. General umbels three-cleft, without in-
volucra : partial ones ripening about three feeds,
and furnilhed with a three-leaved involucrum.
Syn. Caucalis daucoides. Lim.SyJt. Veg.ed. 14.276.
Hu dJ.Fl.An. 1 1 2 . With. Bot. Arr. 2 7 1 . Relb,
Cant. 109. Sibth. Ox on. 92.
C . leptophylla. HudJ. t l . An. ed. 1. 99. Linn. Sp. PI.
ed. 1 .2 4 2 ? ed. 2 .3 4 7 .
C . tenuifolia, flofculis fubrubentibus. Raii Syn. 219.
C . albis floribus. Ger. em. 10 21 .
O U N D , though rarely, in cornfields where the foil is dry
and chalky, moll plentifully in Cambridgefhire, flowering in the
early part of fummer. ,
The root is annual and tapering. Stem branched and divaricated,
fomewhat zigzag, deeply grooved, a little hairy at the
joints only. Leaves three-cleft at their bafe, then thrice compounded,
their fegments very narrow, divaricated, pointed, decurrent
and fmooth, of a pale green. Umbels lateral and terminal,
on long footftalks, of fcarcely more than 3 rays,
though thofe are fometimes accompanied by 1 or 2 weak and
barren ones. General involucrum none. Partial umbels 0
about 5 almoft feflile flowers, of which 3 only perfect their
feeds, and are accompanied by 3 fmall lanceolate lnvolucella, 1
Petals nearly equal, generally reddifh. Germen and lee s
clothed with rigid hooked briftles, intermixed with hairs, out
we do not perceive thofe hairs to be, as Linnaeus fays, vertici -
lated. That author is Angularly confufed in his accounts or t is
genus, nor are we quite fure ©f what he meant at firl ^ y
leptophylla. It is however certain, that the long description 0
C. daucoides in both editions of Sp, Pl. belongs to C, gran 1 0 >
and not (as erroneoufly mentioned in Syft. Veg.) to C. platycarpo,
whatever Linnaeus might at any time intend by the latter.