PENTANDRIA— DIGYNTA. Peucedamim. 99 

 169. FEUCEDANUM. Sulphur-wort. 



Linn. Gen. ]34. Juss. 223. Fl. Br. 304. Tourn. t. 1 69. Spreng, 

 Prodr. 13. G(erin.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. Anth. roundish. Germ, inferior, 

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

 side. Sfj/les small, recurved, tumid and ovate-oblong at 

 the base; at length somewhat enlarged, permanent. Stigmas 

 obtuse, notched. Fl. Recept. none. Fruit broadly ellip- 

 tical, nearly orbicular, transversely compressed, crowned 

 with the calyx and styles. Seeds broadly elliptical, with 

 a notch at eacli end, nearly flat, each with 3 slightly 

 prominent ribs, the interstices striated ; the margin di- 

 lated, 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, leaty, solid stems. Leaves rejieatcdly 

 compound, with extremely narrow, acute, entire leajiets. 

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

 jyartial, smooth rays. Braeteas several, both general and 

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

 branous at the edges. Fl. yellow. Fruit flrst reddish, 

 then of a tawny brown. 



1. V. ojicinalc. Sea Sulphur-wort. Hog's Fennel. 



Leaves five times tleeply three-clelt; loaflols linear, undi- 

 vided, flat. Braeteas linear, almost ca})illary. 



\\ officinale. Lmn. Sp. /V.3.j3. //'^/A/. r. 1 . 1 lo:.. Fl. lir. 30 1. 

 Ell^L liiil. 7-. 2.'). /. l/f)/. 



P. n. 4. Gmd. Sih. v. I.) 88. /.ll. 



Peuredanum. Rnii S,/u. 206. Truii. Hist. 8S0. /". 88 I . Dod. Pcmpt. 

 ?>\7.f. Crr. Em.\{)ri4.f. A/(/////. (V//;^r. r, 2. ir>0,/; bad. Co- 

 mer. Ejilt. ')'){)./; not ii^ood. 



P. germanirun]. hauli. P'ni. \V.). 



P. majus itulicuni. Il/ul. 



P. luimis e^ernianifuin, ft niajiiv ilaruuiu. liauh. ///>/. r. .>. j). 1. 



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