158 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA; 



bald fays it grows upon the banks of Breick' 

 Water, in Wejl-Lothian. %. V. 

 The root has a warm fpicy tafte, and is fometimes 

 ufed in medicine as a carminative and diuretic. 



CRITHMUM. Gen, PL 340. 



Fru^iis ovalis, comprefllis. Flofcuii <5quales. 

 marltimum CRITHMUM foliolis lanceolatis carnofis. Sp.pl 

 *• 354. {Ger. Em. SZZ-f- '• ^oris. hi(l. f. [9. /. 7. 



/. I. ordinis fupericris.) 

 Sampire. Anglis. 

 Upon the rocks by the fea-fide in Galloway. Sil?- 



bald. n.YlW. 

 The common involucrum confifts of five leaves, 



the partial ones each of fev^en. 

 The leaves of this plant are ufed in England as a 

 well-known pickle, of a warm aromatic flavor. 



HERACLEUM. Gen. PL 345. 

 Fruclus ellipticus, emarginatus, compreffjs, ftria- 

 tus, marginatus. Co7\ difformis, inflcxo-emargi- 

 nata. Involucr. caducum. 

 (phcndyUi'.m HERAGLEUM foliolis pinnatifidis l^vibus, fieri 

 1. bus radiatis. Syfi. Nat. 210. Sp. pL 358. {Ger 



Em. 1009. Moris, hijt. J. 9. t. 16. fig. jnedia or 

 dinis fuperioris.Pet. herb. /. 24./. i.) 

 Cow Parfnep. Anglis. 



In meadows and borders of fields frequent. ^ 



Gmeli/i, in his Bhr. Sibirica, p. 214, tells us, tha 



the inhabitants of Camtjchatca, about the be 



ginning of July^ colled: the footfl:alks of the ra 



dica 





