CLASS V. OKDER U. ] PASTINACA. 389 



This possesses properties similar to the last, but iu a very inferior 

 dearree. 



Tribe 6. Peucedane*. — De Cand. Fruit much compressed at the 

 back, with a smooth, thin, dilated, winged, flat, or convex margin. 

 Carpels with five primary, filiform, sometimes very fine ridges, the 

 lateral ones contiguous to part of it ; secondary ridges wanting. 

 Albumen flattened, or somewhat convex at the back. Umbels 

 perfect. 



GENUS LXXII. PAST INA'CA.— Linn. Parsnip. 



Gen. Char. Calyx margin obsolete, or minutely toothed. Petals 



roundish, entire, rolled inwards with a broad obtuse inflexed 



point. Fruit flattened at the back, with a dilated flat margin. 



Carpels with five very slender filiform ridges, the three dorsal 



ones equi-distant, the lateral ones remote, near to the dilated 



margin. Channels with single vitla. Albumen flat in front. 



General and partial involucre of few segments, or wanting. — 



Name from pastus, food. 



1. P. sati'va, Linn. (Fig. 450.) common Wild Parsnip. Leaves 



pinnate ; leaflets ovate oblong, cut, obtusely serrated, the lateral ones 



lobed at the base, the terminal one of three lobes, downy beneath. 



English Botany, t. 556. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 101.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 135.^Lindley, Synopsis, p. 116. 



Root tapering, fleshy, white, sweet and aromatic, with a degree of 

 acrimony. Stem erect, about three feet high, branched, leafy, angular, 

 and deeply furrowed, more or less rough, with hairiness. Leaves 

 large, with stout striated downy footstalks, channeled above, with a 

 broad dilated somewhat sheathing base, leaflets numerous, opposite, 

 ovate oblong, obtuse, variously cut and lobed with an acutely serrated 

 or crenated margin, nearly smooth above, beneath pale, with a strong 

 mid-rib, and downy, sometimes the lateral leaflets are three lobed, as 

 is always the terminal one. Umbels numerous, terminal and lateral. 

 General of numerous unequal striated rags, numerous, also unequal. 

 General and partial involucre wanting, or of one or two narrow seg- 

 ments. Calyx margin obsolete. Petals small, roundish, entire, with 

 a broad small obtuse inflexed point. Stamens on slender filaments, 

 with roundish anthers, of two tumid cells. Styles at first very short, 

 becoming elongated and spreading. Stigmas small, capitate. Disk 

 yellow, fleshy, convex. Flotcers yellow. Fruit ovate, compressed, 

 with a flat dilated obtuse margin round it. Carpels much compressed 



