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138 Tie Ufeful Family Herbal 



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Fennel. 

 FCENICULUM, 



P^ Common Garden Plant, kept for Its Ufe in 



the Kitchen, rather than its medicinal Virtues. 

 It grows fix cr eight Feet high. The Stalk is 

 round, hollow, and of a deep green Colour ; the 

 Leaves are large, and divided into a vafl Num- 

 ber of fine Oender Segments, and they are 4lfo of 

 ' a deep or bluifh green Cclcur. The Flowers fland 

 at the Tops of the Branches, and are fmall and 

 yellow; but there grow large CI u fie rs of them to- 

 gether ; the 'S^tdi is fmall, dark coloured, and ftri- 

 ated, and is of a iharp acrid. Tafte j the Root is 

 long and v^Mit.^. 



The Root is the Part moft ufed ; .a Decoaion 

 made of k with common Water, and given in 

 hrge Qii!intities works by Urine, and is good a- 

 gainft the Gravel and in the Jaundice. 



. S WEET Fennel. 

 FCENICULUM DULCE. 



^Garden Plant very like the common kind, but 



of -a paler Colour. It grows four Feet hieh -, 

 the Stalk IS round, hollow, ftriated, upright, Ind 

 branched-, and the Leaves are larrr^ -""divided 



Number of fihe Segments, in the 



but both 



of 



and the Stalks are of a pale yellowilh ...ca v,o- 

 lour, not fo dark as in the other kind. The 

 Flowers are yellowifn, and Hand in fmall Clufters 

 ^ Umbels ; the Seeds follow, tw^o after each 



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