PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Peucedanum. 99 

 169. PEUCEDANUM. Sulphur-woit. 



Linn. Gen. 134. Juss. 223. FL Br. 304. Tourn. t. \69. Spreng. 

 Prodr. 13. Gccrtn. t.2\. 



Fl. regular, uniform, imperfectly separated; the innermost 

 barren or abortive. Cal. of 5 acute, ascending, perma- 

 nent teeth. Pet. 5, all very nearly equal, inversely heart- 

 shaped, with inflexed points. Filam. capillary, spread- 

 ing beyond the petals. AntJi. roundish. Germ, inferior, 

 oblong, a little compressed laterally, with a rib at each 

 side. Styles small, recurved, tumid and ovate-oblong at 

 the base; at length somewhat enlarged, permanent. Stig- 

 mas obtuse, notched. Fl. Recept. none. Fruit broadly 

 elliptical, nearly orbicular, transversely compressed, 

 crowned with the calyx and styles. Seeds broadly ellip- 

 tical, with a notch at each end, nearly flat, each with 3 

 slightly prominent ribs, the interstices striated ; the mar- 

 gin dilated, with a flat, even, smooth, entire, narrow 

 wing, or border, about one third as broad as the body 

 of the seed. Juncture broad, flat, close, parallel to the 

 seeds, each of which is marked, on its perfectly flat inner 

 side, with a pair of dark brown, continued, converging, 

 longitudinal lines. 



Perennial, fetid, resinous, smooth herbs, with round, stri- 

 ated, branching, leafy, solid stems. Leaves repeatedly 

 compound, with extremely narrow, acute, entire leajlets. 

 Umbels laige, concave, or flat, of numerous, general and 

 partial^ smooth rays. Bracteas several, both general and 

 partial^ linear or lanceolate, rather small; not mem- 

 branous at the edges. Fl. yellow. Frziit first reddish, 

 then of a tawny brown. 



1 . P. officinale. Sea Sulphur-wort. Hog's Fennel. 



Leaves five times deeply three-cleft; leaflets linear, undi- 

 vided, flat. Bracteas linear, almost capillary. 



P. officinale. Linw. Sp. P/. 353. fFiWd. v. 1. 1405. Fl.Br. 304. 



Engl. Bot. V. 25. t. 1767. 

 P. n.4. Gmel. Sib. v.\. 188. t.4\. 

 Peucedanum. RaiiSyn.206. Trag. Hist. 880. f. 88 \. Dod.Pempt. 



317./. Ger.Em.\054.f. Matth.Valgr.v.2.\o0.f;had. Ca^ 



vier.Epit.bbO.f; not good. 

 P. germanicum. Bauh. Pin. 149. 

 P. majus italicum. Ibid. 

 P. minus germanicum^ et majus italicum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2, 



36./,/. 



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