CI. 



PEUCEDANUM OFFICINALE. 



Sea Hog's-Fennel, or Sea Sulphitr-ivort. 



Class Y. Pentandria.— 0;Y/e/- II. Digyma. 



Nat. Ord. Umbellifer.e. 



Gen. Char. Cali/x of five teeth. Petals obovate, with 

 an inflexed point. Fruit much compressed dorsally, 

 girt with a broad thin margin. Carpels with nearly 

 equidistant ridges ; the three intermediate ones filifonn ; 

 the two lateral ones contiguous to, or combined with, 

 the margin. Channels with single vittse. Seed flat on 

 its inner face. — General involucre various ; partial of 

 many leaves. 



Spec. Char. Leaves five times tiipartite, with linear, 

 acute, flaccid segments. Involucre of about three seta- 

 ceous, deciduous leaves. 



S V N O N Y M E S. 



Greek .... ■riuKi^avo;. 



f Peucedanum Germanicum, Bauh. Pin. 149. 



I Peucedanum. Ger. Em. 1054. Rail Syn, 206. 

 J . J Peucedanum vulgare. Park Theatr. 880. 



^""" ] Peucedanus. Fuchs, 5T2, c. 228. 



I Peucedanum officinale. Li7i. Sp. PI. 353. Eng. Fl. ii. p. [nf. 



[^ Eng. Bot. t. 1767. Dec. Prod. iv. p. I77. 



French Peucedan ; Fenouil de pore ; Queue de pourceau. 



Italian .... Peucedano ; Finnoccio porcino. 



Spanish .... Peiicedano ; Servato. 



German.... Haarstrang ; Scwefelwurzel Haarstrang ; Saufenchel. 



Dutch Hairstreng ; Varkens-Venkel. 



Danish .. . . Svinekenkel. 

 Swedish . . . Svinfinkel. 

 Polish .... Wieprzniec. 



Descriptiok — The root is perennial, fusiform, thick, long, of a dark 

 colour externally, whitish \rithin, and containing a fetid resinous juice. 

 The stem is erect, cylindrical, striated, branched, smooth, leafy, tough, and 

 about three feet in height. The leaves are long, rigid, and divided five or 

 six times successively into three leaflets ; the segments linear, nearly flat, 

 aeute, flaccid, and entire. The flowers are disposed in large, many-rayed, 

 concave umbels, with a general and partial involucre, of a few setaceous, 

 deciduous leaves. The calyx consists of a five-toothed, inflexed margin. 

 The five petals are obovate, equal, with an acute inflexed point and of a 

 yellow colour. The ffve stamens have capillary filaments, longer than the 



