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CAUCALIS infesta.
Spreading Hedge Parsley.
PENTANDRIA Digynia.
G en. Char. Involucra general and partial, undivided.
Corollce radiate. Flowers of the centre male. Fruit
nearly oval, striated, rough with rigid bristles.
Spec. Char. Umbels of many close rays. General invo-
lucrum little or none. Leaflets pinnatifid. Branches
spreading.
Syn. Caucalis infesta. Curt. Lond. fa sc . 6. t. 2 3 . -Sm.
FI. B rit. 299. Relh. 108.
C. arvensis. Huds. 113. W ith. 288. Hull. 59.
Sibth. 92. Abbot. 58.
C. segetum minor, Anthrisco hispido similis. Rail
Syn. 220.
Scandix infesta. Linn» Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 732.
T h i s is closely allied to the Caucalis Antkriscns, t. 987, and,
like that, is most unquestionably a Caucalis. It is very common
in fields and by way sides, flowering in July, and the
seeds are widely dispersed by adhering to the coats of animals,
or any thing else that comes in their way.
Root annual, tapering. Stem a foot or two in height, erect,
leafy, round, furrowed, rough, dividing into numerous alternate
divaricating branches. Leaves alternate, pinnate, deeply cut
and sometimes almost bipinnate, rough; the terminal leaflet
elongated. Umbels terminal, erects of numerous close rays.
General involucrum either o f l simple leaf, or entirely wanting
; partial of several sharp rough leaves, Flowers somewhat
radiant, white, cream-coloured, or rarely flesh-coloured.
Antherce yellowish or purple. Fruit larger than in C.Anthris-
cus, ovate, rough, green or reddish, but not tipped with purple.
The most certain distinction of this species is the want of
a many-leaved involucrum, and also the divaricated branches.
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