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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



same species, Foeniculum vulgare,^ which appears indigenous to all 

 Western and Mediterranean Europe, and which, in ancient times, 

 was cultivated and employed for its aromatic and stimulating 

 properties. Its young shoots form an aliment, its leaves and fruit a 

 condiment. From the latter are prepared a distilled water and an 

 essential oil, and they also enter into several other medicinal pre- 

 parations. The Chervil (fig. 153) is CluerophyUum Cerefolium,^ 

 believed to he a native of Southern Europe. It is now chiefly a 

 condiment, with aromatic taste and smell. G. sylvestre^ (fig. 151, 

 152) is a suspected, narcotic plant ; its young shoots and roots, 

 however, are sometimes eaten as potherbs. C, temulum,'^ common 

 in our woods and hedges, is also considered poisonous. (7. hulhosum,^ 

 now often cultivated, has fleshy roots with a sweet and aromatic 

 flavour, and forms an agreeable aliment.^ Myirhis, so near Chcero- 

 phijUiun in organization, has nearly the same properties. M. odorata'' 

 (fig. 154, 155), known by the common name of Musk Chervil, some- 

 times forms an aliment and a condiment. The American Osmorrhiza ^ 

 is a Mijrrhis, and has its properties. The same may be said of 

 Scandix, particularly S. australis ® and gilanica?^ S. Pecten Veneris ^^ 

 (fig. 156), remarkable for the long beak of its fruit, and so common 



' GiERTX. Fn/ct. i. 105.— DC. Prodr. iv. 142, 

 n. 1.— GuiB. Broff. Simpl. ed. 6, iii. 228.— 

 Fluck. et Hanb. Pharmacogr. 274. — F. dulceC 

 Bauh. Pin. 147. — F. officinale All. FL pedem. 

 n. 1359. — F. Panmorium DC. loc. cit. n. 4. — F. 

 pijieritum DC, loc. cit. n. 3. — Anethiim Fosnicu- 

 htm L. Spec. 722. — A. Panmorium Eoxb. Cat. 

 Sort. Cafe. 22.— Hayn. Arzn. Gew. t. 18.— 

 Meum Fmniculum Spreng. 



2 Crantz, Fl. Austr. 191. — C. sativum Lamk. 

 Diet. i. 684. — Scandix Cerefnlium L. Spec. 368. — 

 Anthriscus Cerefolium Hoffm. Umb. 41, 47, t. 1, 

 fig. 21.— DC. Prodr. iv. 223, n. 6.— GuiB. loc. 

 cit. 218. — Cerefolium sativum Bess. Gal. i. 218. 



^L. Spec. 309. — C. alpinum Vill. — C. ma- 

 gellense Ten. — Anthriscus sylvestris Hoffm. Umb. 

 40, 46. 



* L. Spec. 370.— DC Prodr. iv. 226, n. 7.— 

 Gren. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. i. 745. — Myrrhis 

 temula G^rtn. — Scandix temula Roth. — S. nu- 

 tans MCENCH. 



5 L. Spec. 370.— DC. Prodr. iv. 225, n. 6.— 



Grex. et GoDB. loc. cit. 743. — Myrrhis hulbosa 

 Spkeng. — Scandix bulbosa Roth. 



^ C. tuberosum Royle, Prescottii DC hirsutum 

 L. have analogous properties. 



? ScOF. Fl.carniol.ii. n. 341. — DC Prodr. iv. 

 231. — RosEXTH. op. cit. 555. — Seandtx odorata 

 L. Spec. 368. — ChcErophyllum odoratum Lamk. 

 Diet. i. 683. 



" Chiefly 0. Claytonii {Myrrhis Claytonii 

 ToRR.). — 0. longistylis DC — 0. brevistylis DC, 

 Prodr. iv. 232. 



9 L. Spec. 569.— DC. Prodr. iv. 221.— Ro- 

 SENTH. Op. cit. 553. — Myrrhis australis Hoffm. 

 — Choerophyllum australe Crantz. 



10 Gmel. It. iii. 304, t. 31, fig. 2.— DC Prodr. 

 iii. 222, n. 9. 



11 L. Spec. 368.— DC. Prodr. iii. 221, n. 2.— 

 Gren. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. i. 740.-5. Ptcten 

 Hoffm. Umb. i. 24, t. 1, fig. 22.—Chcerophyllum 

 Pecten Veneris Crantz. — C. rostratum Lamk. 

 (part). — Myrrhis Pecten Veneris All,. Fl. Pedem. 

 n. 1376. 



