\m FAMILY HERBAL. 



but of a paler colour. It grows four feet high ; 

 the stalk is round, hollow, striated, upright, and 

 branched ; and the leaves are large and divided 

 into a great number of fine segments, in the man- 

 ner of those of common fennel, but both these and 

 the stalks arc of a pale yellowish green to our, 

 not so dark as in the other kind. The flowers 

 are yellowish, and stand in small clusters or umbels ; 

 the seeds follow, two after each flower ; and 

 they are quite different from those of the common 

 fennel, in size, shape, colour, and taste. They are 

 long, slender, of a pale colour, a little crooked, and 

 deeply striated. Their taste is sweetish and a little 

 acrid. 



As the roots are the part most used of the com- 

 mon fennel, the seeds are the only part used of this. 

 They are excellent in the colic, and are used exter- 

 nally with success in pultices to swellings. The 

 seeds of the common fennel are used by some, but 

 they arc very hot and acrid. These are preferable 

 for internal use. 



Fennel Flower. Ni^cUa. 



A singular and pretty plant kept in gardens. 

 It grows a foot and a half high. The stalk is firm, 

 round, striated, and upright and hollow. Tha 

 leaves are divided into a multitude of fine slender 

 parts like those of fennel, only very small in com- 

 parison, and thence it had the English name of 

 fennel flower ; they stand irregularly on the stalky 

 and are of a pale green. The flowers stand at the 

 tops of the branches : they are singular and pretty ; 

 the colour is whitish, and they are moderately large, 

 the green leaves about them give them a very par- 

 ticular grace. 



The juice of the plant fresh gathered, is good 



