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but smaller and more glaucous ; it has finely divided leaves, and 

 a slender single stem. The whole plant is powerfully aromatic. 

 The leaves are used to heighten the relish of some vegetable 

 pickles, particularly cucumbers ; and also occasionally in soups 

 and sauces. The whole herb is also used in medicinal prepar- 

 ations. Dill is raised from seed, of which half an ounce is 

 sufficient for a bed 3 feet by 4 feet. Sow annually in February, 

 March, or April, or occasionally in autumn, as soon as the seed 

 is ripe, to come up stronger in the spring, in any open compart- 

 ment, either in drills, 6 or 12 inches apart, or broad-cast thinly, 

 and raked in evenly. The plants should remain where raised, 

 and may be thinned moderately, should they rise too thick. 

 They will shoot up in stalks, with leaves and seed umbels in 

 summer and autumn, for use in proper season. Leave some 

 plants when raised for seed ; they will furnish plenty in the 

 autumn. The bruised herb is anodyne and resolvent. The 

 seeds are aromatic, and contain an etherial oil, and useful, there- 

 fore, in flatulencies ; the essential oil is also good in the colic. 

 A distilled water, drawn off to the quantity of a gallon to a 

 pound of seeds, was ordered in the London Pharmacopaeia, 

 and occasionally made the basis of carminative draughts, and 

 juleps ; its flavour is more agreeable than that of the seeds in 

 substance. Along with the water arises a considerable quantity 

 of essential oil, which is given from 1 to 3 or 4 drops, or more, 

 as a carminative. This, however, is now altogether disused. 



Strong-scented or Common Dill. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1573. 

 PL 2 feet. 



3 A. SO V WA (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 22.) fruit oblong, nearly 

 destitute of a membranous margin. Q. H. Native of the 

 East Indies, where it is called Sona, and where it is cultivated 

 for its use in medicine. Fleming, ind. med. in soc. asiat. 11. 

 p. 156. ex Schultes, syst. 6. p. 628. Herb very like the pre- 

 ceding. Rays of umbel 5-16. Fruit flat, 3-ribbed, almost 

 wingless. 



Sona Dill. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1810. PL 1 foot. 



f Species not sufficiently known. 



4 A. CYMBOCA'RPUM (D. C. prod. 4. p. 186.) fruit elliptia^pu- 

 berulous on the outside, when examined by a lens, with a very 

 narrow margin. . H. Native of Persia, about Seidkhodzi, 

 where it was. collected by Szowits'. Plant small, glabrous. 

 Root slender, simple. Leaves many-parted : lobes linear. Um- 

 bels pedunculate, opposite the leaves, 3-6-rayed, without in- 

 volucra. Umbellule 6-7-flowered, surrounded by an involucel. 

 Flowers unknown, but probably yellow, as the other species. 

 Fruit appearing turgid at first sight, ellipsoid, but empty inside, 

 from the mericarps being thin and concave. Carpophore filiform, 

 bipartite. Mericarps of the same structure as the other species 

 of the genus. 



Boat-fruited Dill. PL 1 foot. 



5 A. ? ERYTHR;EUM (D. C. prod. 4. p. 186.) fruit elliptic, 

 glabrous, hardly marginate ; mericarps flattish ; involucra and 

 involucels of 4 or 5 leaves. Q.I H. Native of Persia, in 

 gravelly places, at the foot of Mount Avrin, in the district of 

 Khoi, in the province of Aderbeijan, where it was collected by 

 Szowits. Herb glabrous. Stem terete, purplish. Leaves 

 small, multifid, with small obtuse lobes. Umbels on long pe- 

 duncles, 7-12-rayed. Involucra of 5-7 leaves. UmbelJules 

 12-15-flowered ; involucels of 5-7 short leaves. Petals white, 

 ovate, acute. Mericarps sometimes flat, and sometimes rather 

 concave, fuscous on the outside, and purplish inside. Very like 

 A. segetum. 



.Red-stemmed Dill. PL 1 foot. 



Cult. All the species grow very well in the open border, 

 where the seeds should be sown. 



VOL. III. 



CI. CO'RTIA (in honour of Bonav. Corti, who was the 

 first to discover the motion of molecules in the cells of plants). 

 D. C. prod. 4. p. 186. Schultzia species, Wall. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Teeth of calyx elongated, 

 acute. Petals lanceolate, acuminated, entire. Stylopodium co- 

 nical ; styles diverging. Fruit elliptic, rather retuse at both 

 ends ; mericarps flattish, 5-ribbed : ribs winged : lateral ribs 

 the broadest ; vittae 1 in each furrow, and 2 in the commissure, 

 which is broad and flat. Seed flattish. A nearly stemless herb. 

 Leaves ^jetjplate, pinnate ; leaflets divided into short, capillary 

 segments*- f^jScapes, some of them thick and stem-formed, bear- 

 ing an invoracrum, composed of 2-3 multifid leaves ; others are 

 elongated, and bearing an umbel, which is usually of few rays. 

 Involucels of 5-7 linear, entire, or 2-3-cleft acute leaves. This 

 genus differs from Schultzia in the calyx being 5-toothed, and 

 in the fruit being compressed from the back, not from the sides. 

 evidently 5-winged. 



1 LINDLE'II (D. C. prod. 4. p. 187.). 0. H. Native of 

 Nipaul, at Gosaingsthan. Schultzia Lindleii, Wall. mss. Habit 

 almost of Caldasia. 



Lindley'sCortia. PL 1 foot? 



Cult. Sow the seeds in the open border in spring, in a warm 

 sheltered situation. 



CII. CAPNOPHY'LLUM (from KC^VCS, kapnos, the Greek 



name for fumitory, T and <f>v\\of, phyllon, a leaf; resemblance in 



"leaves to those/of fumitory). Gaertn. fruct. 2. p. 32. t. 85. 



Koch, umb. p. 95. no. 24. in add. Conium species, Auct, 



Rumia, Link, but not of Gaertn. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 

 Petals oblong, somewhat emarginate, tapering into an inflexed 

 point. Fruit lenticularly compressed, girded by a complanate, 

 dilated margin. Mericarps having the 3 intermediate ribs thick- 

 ish, keeled, rather flexuous or tubercled : the 2 lateral ribs lost 

 in the dilated margins. Vittse solitary in the furrows, and twin 

 in the commissure. "( Seed rather convex, but flat in front. 

 Annual herbs, nafri\re5 of the Cape of Good Hope, with leaves 

 almost like those of fumitory, whence the name. Leaves hoary, 

 multifidly decompound, with linear, cuneated segments. Um- 

 bels opposite the leaves, or nearly terminal. Involucra and 

 involucels composed of 3-6 leaves, with membranous edges. 

 Flowers white. 



1 C. AFRICA'NUM (Koch, 1. c.) umbels of 2-5 rays ; involucra 

 and involucels of 3 leaves ; central flower of each umbellule fer- 

 tile and nearly sessile, the rest nearly all pedicellate and sterile. 

 Q. H. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in sandy places. Co- 

 nium Africanum, Lin. mant. p. 352. Burch. cat. pi. afr. no. 

 362. Burm. pi. cap. p. 7. Thunb. fl. cap. 257. Koch, umb. 

 95. Rumia Capensis, Link. enum. hort. berol. 1. p. 271. 



African Capnophyllum. PL 1 foot. 



2 C. JACSUI'NI (D. C. prod. 4. p. 187.) umbels of 9-10 rays ; 

 involucrum of 5-6 leaves ; umbellules containing many fertile 

 flowers. 0. H. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Co- 

 nium Africanum, Jacq. hort. vind. t. 194. Cicuta Africana, 

 Lam. diet. 2. p. 4. C6nium rugosum, Thunb. fl. cap. p. 258. 

 Leaves thicker than those of the first species. 



Jacquin's Capnophyllum. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1759. PL 

 1 foot. 



Cult. Sow the seeds in a warm sheltered situation in spring. 



CIII. TIEDEMA'NNIA (in honour of Professor Tiedemann, 

 of Heidelberg, a vegetable physiologist). D. C. coll. diss. 5. 

 p. 51. t. 12. prod. 4. p. 187. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx 5-toothed 

 (f. 64. a.). Petals acuminated, reflexed (Ell.) ; anthers erect, 

 adnate to the sides of the filaments (Ell.). Fruit flatly com- 

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