50 PENT ANDRI A—DIG YNI A. Myrrliis. 



spotted. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, sharply cut, 

 rather hairy. Umbels terminal, stalked, numerous, with 

 many general, as well as partial, rays ; scarcely ever any 

 general bracteas, but numerous spreading partial ones, 

 which are in some degree membranous, lanceolate, and 

 pointed. Fl. white. Fr. tawny, or blackish. 



1. M. odorata. Sweet Cicely. 



Seeds with very sharp, prominent angles, roughish towards 

 the summit. 



M. odorata. Scop. Cam. v. 1 . 207. Hoth Germ. v.\.\ 22. v. 2. p. 1 . 

 314. Hoffm. Umb. v. 1. 29. 



M. n. 753. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 330. 



Myrrhis, Dod. Pempt.70\.f. Lob. 7c, 734./. Matth. J'olgr. v. 2. 

 512./. Comer. Epif. 898. f. 



M. magno semine longo sulcato. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 77. f. 

 Moris. V. 3. 301. sect. 9. t. 10./ 1. 



Scandix odorata. Liun.Sp. PL 368. fVilUl v. 1. 1449. FL Br. 323. 

 V EngL But. V. 10. t. 697. Light/. IGG. Jacq. Austr. upp. t. 37. 

 Ehrh. PL Off. 423. 



Chaerophyllum odovatum. Hook. Scot. 93. 



Cerefolium magnum, sive Myrrhis. Ger. Em. 1039./. 



Odorata. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t.57. 



In mountainous pastures. 



In meadows betwixt Morton and Rushfortli, in the west riding of 

 Yorkshire, certainly a native. Dr. Richardson. Herb. BiuldL 

 Near Leeds pretty common, and certainly wild. liev. Mr. Wood. 

 Abundant by the sides of rivulets in Wensley-dale, Yorkshire. 

 Mr. W, Brunton. Behind a farm house, about a mile west of 

 Hafod, Cardiganshire. Frequent, as Hudson remarks, in West- 

 moreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire ; and, as Lightfoot and 

 others have noticed, in the lowlands of Scotland ; but generally 

 near houses. It does not appear why Ray and Dillenius did not 

 admit this plant as a native. 



Perennial. May. 



Root tapering, fleshy, sweet and aromatic, like the whole of the 

 herb. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, round, leafy, sleek, but striated, 

 hollow, like the footstalks. Leaves triply compound, with pin- 

 natifid, acute, serrated, slightly hairy lea/lets, of a bright green j 

 the radical leaves on long cylindrical footstalks ; tlie rest with 

 very short, dilated, ribbed, membranou.s-edged ones, so as to be 

 almost sessile. Umbels tenmn^], of numerous downy rays, both 

 general and partial. Bracteas partial only, lanceolate, tapering, 

 whitish, membranous, finely fringed. FL numerous, pure white j 

 many of the middlemost with stamens only, nor any thing of the 

 jjJsiiZ but the large globular bases of the styles; several in the 

 circumference fertile^ and slightly radiant, Stam. in both. 



