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SCANDIX PECTEN (Shepherd's Needle, Venus' Comb). 



30. SCANDIX (Shepherd's Needle). 



1. S. Pecten (Shepherd's Needle, Venus' Comb). 

 Common in cultivated ground. A small plant, 3 9 

 inches high, with finely-cut bright-green leaves, and 

 few-rayed umbels of small white flowers, which are 

 succeeded by long, beaked seed-vessels. Fl. June,, Sep- 

 tember. Annual. 



31. ANTHRISCUS (Beaked-Parsley). 



1. A. vulgdris (Common Beaked-Parsley). -Stem 

 smooth ; leaves thrice pinnate, with blunt segments ; 

 umbels lateral on rather short stalks ; fruit bristly. 

 Waste ground, chiefly near towns. Kemarkable for its 



