UMBELLIFERAE. C. Anetuum. CI. Corria. 
but smaller and more glaucous ; it has finely divided leaves, and 
a slender single stem. The whole plant is powerfully aromatic. 
‘The leaves are used to heighten the relish of some vegetable 
pickles, particularly cucumbers; and also occasionally in soups 
and sauces. The whole herb is also used in medicinal prepar- 
ations, Dill is raised from seed, of which half an ounce is 
sufficient for a bed 3 feet by 4 feet. Sow annually in February, 
March, or April, or occasionally in autumn, as soon as the seed 
is ripe, to come up stronger in the spring, in any open compart- 
ment, either in drills, 6 or 12 inches apart, or broad-cast thinly, 
and raked in evenly. The plants should remain where raised, 
and may be thinned moderately, should they rise too thick. 
They will shoot up in stalks, with leaves and seed umbels in 
summer and autumn, for use in proper season. Leave some 
plants when raised for seed; they will furnish plenty in the 
autumn, The bruised herb is anodyne and resolvent. The 
seeds are aromatic, and contain-an etherial oil, and useful, there- 
fore, in flatulencies ; the essential oil is also good in the colic. 
A distilled water, drawn off to the quantity of a gallon to a 
pound of Seeds, was ordered in the London Pharmacopzia, 
and occasionally made the basis of carminative draughts, and 
Juleps ; its flavour is more agreeable than that of the seeds in 
substance. Along with the water arises a considerable quantity 
of essential oil, which is given from 1 to 3 or 4 drops, or more, 
as a carminative. This, however, is now altogether disused. 
Strong-scented or Common Dill. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1573. 
Pl. 2 feet. 
: 3 A. So'wa (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 22.) fruit oblong, nearly 
estitute of a membranous margin. ©. H. Native of the 
a Indies, where it is called Sowa, and where it is cultivated 
or its use in medicine. Fleming. ind. med. in soc. asiat. 11. 
P- 156. ex Schultes, syst. 6. p. 628. Herb very like the pre- 
ceding. Rays of umbel 5-16. Fruit flat, 3-ribbed, almost 
Wingless, 7 
Sowa Dill. FI. June, July. Clt. 1810. Pl. 1 foot. 
Species not sufficiently known. 
b 4 A. cympoca’reum (D. C. prod. 4. p. 186.) fruit elliptic, pu- 
erulous on the outside, when examined bya lens, with a very 
iiy margin. ©. H. Native of Persia, about Seidkhodzi, 
R ere it was collected by Szowits. Plant small, glabrous. 
i slender, simple. Leaves many-parted : lobes linear. Um- 
ola pedunculate, opposite the leaves, 3-6-rayed, without- in- 
Volucra. Umbellule 6-7-flowered, surrounded by an involucel. 
wers unknown, but probably yellow, as the other species. 
rut appearing turgid at first sight, ellipsoid, but empty inside, 
fom the mericarps being thin and concave. Carpophore filiform, 
partite. Mericarps of the same structure as the other species 
of the genus, 
Boat-fruited Dill. PI. 1 foot. 
ii -? eRytaRÆæ um (D.C. prod. 4. p. 186.) fruit elliptic, 
om rous, hardly marginate ; mericarps flattish ; involucra and 
nvolucels of 4 or 5 leaves. ©.? H. Native of Persia, in 
eed places, at the foot of Mount Avrin, in the district of 
re in the province of Aderbeijan, where it was collected by 
sath Herb glabrous. Stem terete, purplish. Leaves 
tine, multifid, with small obtuse lobes. Umbels on long pe- 
ge 7-12-rayed. Involucra of 5-7 leaves. _Umbellules 
al -flowered ; involucels of 5-7 short leaves. Petals white, 
és €, acute. Mericarps sometimes flat, and sometimes rather 
f tobe on the outside, and purplish inside. Very like 
Cag stemmed Dill. Pl. 1 foot. a 
. the species grow very well in the open border, 
oe seeds stout be aed E 
L. I. 
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CI. CO’RTIA (in honour of Bonav. Corti, who was the 
first to discover the motion of molecules in the cells of plants). 
D.C. prod. 4. p. 186.—Schiltzia species, Wall. 
Lin. syst. Pentandria, Digynia. : Teeth of calyx elongated, 
acute. Petals lanceolate, acuminated, entire. Stylopodium co- 
nical ; styles diverging. Fruit elliptic, rather retuse at both 
ends; mericarps flattish, 5-ribbed: ribs winged: lateral ribs 
the broadest; vittze 1 in each furrow, and 2 in the commissure, 
which is broad and flat. Seed flattish.—A nearly stemless herb. 
Leaves petiolate, pinnate ; leaflets divided into short, capillary 
segments. Scapes, some of them thick and stem-formed, bear- 
ing an involucrum, composed of 2-3 multifid leaves ; others are 
elongated, and bearing an umbel, which is usually of few rays. 
Involucels of 5-7 linear, entire, or 2-3-cleft acute leaves. This 
genus differs from Schiltzia in the calyx being 5-toothed, and 
in the fruit being compressed from the back, not from the sides. 
evidently 5-winged. 
1 Linvte‘n (D. C. prod. 4. p. 187.). 
Nipaul, at Gosaingsthan. Schiltzia Lindléii, Wall. mss. 
almost of Caldasia. 
Lindley's Cortia. Pl. 1 foot? 
Cult. Sow the seeds in the open border in spring, in a warm 
sheltered situation. 
CII. Capnopnytitum. CIII. Trepemannia. 
©. H. Native of 
Habit 
CII. CAPNOPHY’LLUM (from xazvoc, kapnos, the Greek 
name for fumitory, and @vAdov, phyllon, a leaf; resemblance in 
leaves to those of fumitory). Geertn. fruct. 2. p. 32. t. 85. 
Koch, umb. p. 95. no. 24. in add.—Conium species, Auct.— 
Rimia, Link. but not of Gertn. 
Lin. syst. Penténdria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 
Petals oblong, somewhat emarginate, tapering into an inflexed 
point. Fruit lenticularly compressed, girded by a complanate, 
dilated margin. Mericarps having the 3 intermediate ribs thick- 
ish, keeled, rather flexuous or tubercled : the 2 lateral ribs lost 
in the dilated margins. Vitte solitary in the furrows, and twin 
in the commissure. Seed rather convex, but flat in front.— 
Annual herbs, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, with leaves 
almost like those of fumitory, whence the name. Leaves hoary, 
multifidly decompound, with linear, cuneated segments. Um- 
bels opposite the leaves, or nearly terminal. Involucra and 
involucels composed of 3-6 leaves, with membranous edges. 
Flowers white. 
1 C. Arrica‘num (Koch, I. c.) umbels of 2-5 rays; involucra 
and involucels of 3 leaves ; central flower of each umbellule fer- 
tile and nearly sessile, the rest nearly all pedicellate and sterile. 
©.H. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in sandy places. Cò- 
nium Africanum, Lin. mant. p. 352. Burch. cat. pl. afr. no. 
362. Burm. pl. cap. p.7. Thunb. fi. cap. 257. Koch, umb. 
95. Rùmia Capénsis, Link. enum. hort. berol. 1. p. 271. 
African Capnophyllum. PI. 1 foot. 
2 C.Jacaurni (D.C. prod. 4. p. 187.) umbels of 9-10 rays; 
involucrum of 5-6 leaves; umbellules containing many fertile 
flowers. ©. H. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cò- 
nium Africinum, Jacq. hort. vind. t. 194. Cicùta Africana, 
Lam. dict. 2. p. 4. Conium rugosum, Thunb. fl. cap. p. 258. 
Leaves thicker than those of the first species. 
Jacquin’s Capnophyllum. FI. June, Sept. Clt. 1759. PI. 
1 foot. 
Cult. 
CIII. TIEDEMA’NNIA (in honour of Professor Tiedemann, 
of Heidelberg, a vegetable physiologist). D.C. coll. diss. 5. 
p- 51. t. 12. prod. 4. p. 187. : 
Li. syst. Penténdria, Digynia. Margin of calyx 5-toothed 
(f. 64. a.). Petals acuminated, reflexed (Ell.); anthers erect, 
adnate to the sides of the filaments (Ell.). Fruit flatly com- 
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