PENTAND. DTGYN. 05 



Stems 3 4 f. high, very stout, furrowed. Leaves bright yellow green, 

 twice or (the lower ones) thrice ternate, with a very broad mem- 

 branous base; leaflets very large, broadly ovate, lobed and serrated. 

 Flowers yellow green, in very dense numerous rounded umbels. 

 Fruit almost black when ripe. 



66. CARUM. 



1. C. Carui (common Caraway}. Lig/itf. p. 169. E.B.t. 1503. 

 HAB. Rocks of Edinb. castle towards the west, Dr. Parsons. Isle of 



Oransa, Lightf. Meadows and pastures, occasionally about Glasg. 



In the haugh of Dalbetfr, Hopk. Fl. June. $ . Naturalized in 



Britain. FL June. $ . 

 Stem 1 2 f. high. Leaves doubly pinnate, cut into linear segments, 



of which the lowermost are decussate. Umbels dense. Seeds a well 



known officinal aromatic. 



67. PIMPINELLA. 



1. P. Saxlfraga (common Burnet Saxl/rage], radical leaves pin- 

 nate, leaflets roundish sharply serrate, those of the stem bipin- 



nate linear. Lightf. p. 169. E. B. t. 407. 

 HAB. Dry pastures, very common. Fl. July, Aug. 3 

 Stems 10 inches to a foot high. Umbels at first drooping. 



68. APIUM. 



1. A. graveolens (Smallage or wild Celery), stem leaves with 

 their leaflets wedge-shaped, stem furrowed, umbels frequently 

 sessile. Lightf. p. 169. E. B. t. 1210. 



HAB. Marshy places by the sea-side. Ditches behind Musselburgh, 



Dr. Parsons. Fl. Aug. . 

 Two feet high. Leaves ternate ; leaflets large, wedge-shaped, lobed, 



and cut at the extremity 5 the lower ones are upon long stalks, and 



have the leaflets rounder and truncate at bottom. Umbdhdes very 



small. The origin of the garden Celery. 



2. A. Petroselinum (common Parsley), leaves of the stem with 

 their leaflets linear, umbels all pedunculate. Hull, Br. Fl.p.'309. 



HAB. Rocks by the sea-side at Dunvegan in Skye, but near M'Leod's 

 castle, Dr Walker. Old walls near Inverleith ; on an old wall at 

 Coltbridge, and by the road-side between Collington and Dreg- 

 horn, Maugh. This is introduced into Hull's Brit. Flora as a native 

 of England j and it has an equal right to be considered a native 

 of Scotland, being naturalized, though originally an inhabitant of 

 Sardinia. 



Radical leaflets broad and lobed. This has a monophyllous general 

 involucre and minute partial ones, and Hoffman has made of it the 

 genus Petroselinum. 



69. ^EGOPODIUM. 



1. &. Podagraria (Gout-weed). Light/, p. 170. E. B. t. 940. 



HAB. Gardens and waste places. H.June. I/. 



One or one foot and a half high. Radical leaves twice ternate, supe- 

 rior ones ternate j leaflets ovate, subacuminate, unequally serrated. 



