138 ©The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
F, 
FENNEL. 
FCONICULUM. 
Common Garden Plant, kept for its Ufe in 
~ the Kitchen, rather than its medicinal Virtues. 
It grows fix or eight Feet high. The Stalk is 
round, hollow, and of a deep green Colour; the 
Leaves are large, and divided into a vaft Num- 
ber of fine flender Segments, and they are alfo of 
a deep or bluifh green Colour. _ The Flowers ftand 
at the Tops of the Branches, and are {mall and 
yellow ; but there grow large Clufters of them to- 
gether; the Seed. is fmall, dark coloured, and ftri- 
ated, and is of a fharp acrid Tafte; the Root is 
long and white. | 
The Root is the Part moft ufed; a Decoétion 
a of it with common. Water, and a in 
> Quantities works by Urine, and is ar 
pelo ae Sa the Jaundice, | 
Sweer Fenne.. 
. FCQENICULUM DULCE. 
A Garden Plant very like the common kind, but 
S: of a paler Colour. It grows four Feet highs | 
the Stalk is round, hollow, ftriated, upright, and 
_ branched; and the Leaves are eae divided | 
___ Intoa great Number of fine Segments, in the Man- _ 
_ her of thofe of common Fennel, but both thefe 
and the Stalks are of a pale yellowith green Co- 
lour, not fo dark as in the other kind. The 
Flowers are yellowifh, and ftand in fmall Clufters 
-.,of Umbels; the Seeds follow, two after each 
r. | Flower; 
