ORD. VI Unmbellatee. ~~ 195 
ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS. COMMON DILL. 
SYNONYM4. Anethum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard, 
Emac. p. 1038. Raii Hist.p. 415. Anethum hortense sive vul- 
gare.. Park. Theat. p. 886. Anethum hortense. Bauh. Pin. 
p. 147. ! 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 364. 
Ess, Gen. Ch. Fructus subovatus, compressus, striatus. Petala invo- 
luta, integra. Scag 
Sp. Ch. A. fructibus. compressis. 
THE root is annual or biennial, long, tapering, whitish, sending 
off strong fibres, and striking deeply in the ground: several stems. 
usually proceed from the same root, and are erect, smooth, channell- 
ed jointed, branched, covered with a glaucous exudation, and rise 
about two feet in height: the leaves stand upon sheathy fooistalks,. 
placed at the joints of the stalk, and are alternate, smooth, doubly | 
pinnated ; pinnz linear, pointed: the flowers are produced in termi- 
nal umbels, which are large, flat, and like the partial umbels, com- 
posed of several radii: it has no involucrum: the corolla. consists 
of five petals, which are yellow, egg-shaped, obtuse, concave, and 
have their points turned inwards: the five filaments are yellow, — 
longer than the corolla, and furnished with roundish anthere: the 
germen is placed below the insertion of the petals, and is covered 
by the nectarium: the two styles are very short, and terminated 
by obtuse stigmata: the seeds are two, oval, flat, striated, and 
surrounded with a membranous margin. The flowers appear in 
“June and July. 3 
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