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white, and not more than half the length of the em- j leaves placed alternately. Silaum (quod liguftirn 



Creticum, foliis fceniculi caule nodolb. Tourn Co^ 



23') ' 



After the flower is paft, the four gcrmen 



palement. 



in the center become fo many oblong feeds wrapped 



■ up in a fringed cover, 



The Doftor found a variety of this with blue petals, 

 of the fame bright colour with the empalemcnt, which 

 made a fine appearance, every branch being termi- 

 nated by a long ftring of thefe flowers, fo that he has 

 ranked this among the firft clafs of beautiful Ameri- 

 can trees- 



So far as I have been able to difcover from the dried 

 famples vvhich the Doftor brought to England, it ap- 

 pears that there are male and female flowers either on 

 different parts of the fame tree, or upon different trees; 

 for one fpike of flowers fecms to be entirely male, and 

 the other fpikes are female, but the Dodtor has not 

 noticed this in his manufcripr. 



This is propagated by feeds, which mufl: be obtained 

 from the places where the trees grow naturally, and 

 thefe are very few good ; for, from the feeds which 

 the Doftor fent to England, there were but two plants 

 raifed, though the feeds were diftributed to feveral 

 perfons ; and this is a fort of confirmation of the 

 ipikes of flowers being of different fexes, and that 

 the feeds gathered by the Do6tor, were taken either 

 from trees at fome difl:ance from the male, or fuch 

 parts of the fame tree which were remote from the 

 male flowers. The feeds mufl: be fown in a good 

 hot-bed^ and when the plants come up, they fhould 

 be each planted in a feparate fmall pot filled with 

 light loamy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tan- 

 - ners bark, and afterwards placed in the bark-bed in the 

 fl:ove, where they fliould conftantly remain, and be 

 treated like other plants of the fame country. 



PETROSELINUM. See Apium. 



PEUCEDANUM. Tourn. Infl:. R. H. 318. tab. 



' 169. Lin. Gen. Plant. 302. Hogs-fennel, or Sul- 

 phur-wort. 

 ' The Characters arc, 



// hath an umbelliferous flower. The principal umbel is 

 compofed of feveral long narrow umbels which fpread 



The empalement of the flower is 



The petals of the great 



open. The cover of the large umbel is compofed of many 

 linear refUxed leaves, 

 fmall and indented inflve parts, 

 umbel are ^ uniform. Each flower is compofed of five ob- 

 long incurved petals^ which are equal and entire \ they 

 have each five hairUke ftamina^ terminated by Jingle fum- 

 mitSi with an oblong germen fttuated under the flo 



Ttft 



The firft: fort is faid to grow naturally in England 

 but I have not been lucky enough to find it, though 

 I have fearched the places where it is mentioned but 

 it grows in feveral parts of Germany in marfhy mea 

 dows. This hath a perennial root, which divides ^n 

 to many ftrong fibres running deep in the ground' 

 from which arifc the foot-fl:alks of the leaves whicli 

 are channelled ; thefe are naked at bottom, but about 

 four or five inches from the root branches into fi^^e 

 fmaller foot-fcalks, and thefe again divide into three 

 and each of thefe divifions fullain three narrow leaves' 

 which when bruifed emit a fl:rong fcent likefulphur' 

 The ftalks rife near two feet high '-, they are channel- 

 led, and divide into two or three branches, each beinp- 

 • terminated by a large regular umbel of yellow flowers 

 compofed of feveral fmall umbels which are circular' 

 Thefe flowers appear in June, and are fucceeded by 

 comprelTed feeds, which are deeply furrowed, and 

 ripen in the autumn* 



The fecond fort grows naturally on the mountains ' 

 and alfo in the low valleys by the fides of rivers in 

 Italy. The root of this is perennial, ftrikino- deep 

 into the ground; the foot-ftalks of the leaves arc 

 large and furrowed, dividing into three fmall branches^ 

 which are again divided into three, 'and thefe end 

 with three long narrow'lobes or fmall leaves, which 

 are much longer than thofe of the other fort. The 

 ftalks which fuftain the umbels rife near three feet 

 high, and divide toward the top into feveral fmall 

 branches, each fuftaining an Cimbel compofed of fe- 

 veral fmaller rays or umbels, which ftand upon very 

 long foot-ftalks, that fpread out irregularly. The 

 flowers of this are yellow, and (haped like thofe of 

 the former, but are much larger, as are alfo the feeds, 

 but have the fame form as the other. It flowers and' 

 perfeds feeds about the fame time as the formeV.r' ; ' 

 The third fort grows naturally in the forcft of Fon- 

 tainbleau, and fome other parts of France i it hath a 

 perennial root, from which come out leaves which 

 branch into feveral divifions, that divide again into 

 fmaller -, each of thefe fmaller divifions are garnifhed 

 with five ftiort narrow leaves. The ftalks are found, 

 and not fo^deeply channelled as either of the former, 

 fuftaining a large umbel of yellow flowers fiiapedlike 

 thofe of the former forts ; the feeds are ftiorter, Sut 



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" Jupporting two f nail ftyles^ crowned ly obtufefligmas, of the fame Ihape as thofe. 



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The germen afterward turns to an oval fruit channelled the feeds ripen the beginning of September. 





• en each ftde^ fplitting in two tarts^ containiitg two feeds 



convex on one fide^ compreffed on the other ^ with three 



Raifed furrows^ and a broad membranaceous border indented 



f at the top. 



This genus of plants Is ranged in the fecond feftion 

 \ of Linnseus's fifth clafi; which includes the 'plants 

 . whofe flowers have five ftamina and two ftylcs. ; 

 •^ • The Species are, - - - 



T. Peucedanum {Oflicinale) ioXm quinquies tripartitls 



linearibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 358'. '* Hogs-fennel with leaves 

 ; '^hich are divided by flves^ and thefe are again divided 



'into three linear fegments. Feucedanum Germanicum. 

 - C. B. P. 149. German Hogs-fenneL y _r^ , ^' 



Peucedanum (Italicum) foliis tripartitls filiformibus 

 loneioribus* umbellis dtffbrmibus. Hogs-fennel with 

 leaves cut into three parts^ wkicb are longer^ flender^ and 

 have irregular umbels.^ Peucedanum 'majus Italicum. 

 C. B. P/ V^(^SCre^tcr'iraItdh Hogs-fenneL 



2. 



The fourth fort grows naturally on St. Vincent's rock 

 near Briftol \ this is a biennial plant, which periihes 

 foon after it has perfected its feeds. The leaves of 

 this fort are ftiort and very narrow, fpreading near the 

 furface of the ground ; the ftalks rife near a Foot high, 

 but arc branched almoft from the bottom; thefe 

 branches arc alrfibft horizontal, and are garniflied with 

 a few narJrow ftiort leaves of a lucid green. Each 

 ftalk is terminated by a fmall umbel of flowers, which 

 are oFan herbaceous yellow colour and fmall. Thefe 



■ are fucceeded by fmall channelled feeds. - ^f 

 The fifth fort grows naturally m Crete ; it 



"plant of long duration in England, nor do the feeds 



well here- The ftalks rife a foot and a half 



from 



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not a 



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PEucE^ANUAi (Jlpeflre) foliolis ImearibusVamofis. 

 '•Hortr Cliff. ^4'.'' Hogs-ferihcl *tvifB leases branchings 

 ^ivfjich are very Jlender. ; Ferula^foliis libanotidis brevi- 

 ' .oribusj'^alpeftris, umbellis ampliftimls. Bocrh. Ind. 



"- alt 



ousj ^ aipeicns, 



• I. p. oc " -r 



p. 05 





4- PEucEbANuM {Minus) foliis pmnatis, foliolis pinnati- 

 fidis_, laciniis linearibus'oppoftris, caule '^ramofiftimo 

 patulo. Flor, Angl, i o i . Hogs- fennel' with winged leaves 

 whofe cuts are linear and oppofite. with a fpreading branch- 





5. Peucedanum (iV^?^,?/^;;;) foliolis alternatim multifi- 



dis. Hort. Clifl; 94. Hogs-Jenhel -with liiany -pointed '•' are np'c, 



* * 



^^ high, having pretty large knots at the joints, 

 ' which arlfes a leaf cut irito many divifions j the flowers 

 Wr"mmate the ftalksTn umbels, and appear the begin- 

 ning' of July, an'cf In'warm feafons the feeds will n- 



pen in the autumn.'/^ ;' 



The firft fort ftands m the lift of medicinal plants, 



but is at prefent rarely ufed ; the roots arc the only 



f)art prefcribed. It is accounted good to clear the 

 ungs of tough vifcid phlegm, and thereby to help 

 old coughs and ftiortnefs of breath ; it likewife opens 

 obftru£lions 'of the liver and fpleen, and helps the 

 jaundice. • 



The other forts are preferved in botanic gardens for 

 the fake of variety ; they are all propagated by feeds, 

 which ftiould be fown in the autumn foon after they 



for thofe which are fown in the fpring fel- 



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