PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Peucedanum. 99 

 169. PEUCEDANUM. Sulphur-wort. 



Linn. Gen. ]34. Juss. 223. Fl. Br. 304. Tourn.t.169. Spreng. 

 Prodr. 13, Gcertn.t.2\. 



Fl. regular, uniform, imperfectly separated ; the innermost 

 barren or abortive. Cal. of 5 acute, ascending, perma- 

 nent teeth. Pet. 5, all very nearly equal, inversely heart- 

 shaped, widi inflexed points. Filam. capillary, spread- 

 ing beyond the petals. Anth. roundish. Gcrin. inferior, 

 oblong, a little compressed laterally, with a rib at each 

 side.. Styles small, recurved, tumid and ovate-oblong at 

 the base; atlength somewhat enlarged, permanent. Stigmas 

 obtuse, notched. Fl. Recept. none. Fruit broadly ellip- 

 tical, nearly orbicular, transversely compressed, crowned 

 with the calyx and styles. Seeds broadly elliptical, with 

 a notch at each end, nearly flat, each with 3 slightly 

 prominent ribs, the interstices striated ; the margin di- 

 lated, with a flat, even, smooth, entire, narrow wing, or 

 border, about one third as broad as the body of the seed. 

 Juncture broad, flat, close, parallel to the seeds, each of 

 which is marked, on its perfectly flat inner side, with a 

 pair of dark brown, continued, converging, longitudinal 

 lines. 

 Perennial, fetid, resinous, smooth herbs, with round, stri- 

 ated, branching, leaf}'^, solid stems. Leaves repeatedly 

 compound, with extremely narrow, acute, entire leajiets. 

 Umbels large, concave, or flat, of numerous, general and 

 •partial^ smooth rays. Bracteas several, both general and 

 partial^ linear or lanceolate, rather small ; not mem- 

 branous at the edges. Fl. yellow. Fruit first reddish, 

 then of a tawny brown. 



1. V. officinale. Sea Sulphur-wort. Hog's Fennel. 



Leaves five times deeply three-cleft ; leaflets linear, undi- 

 vided, flat. Bracteas linear, almost capillary. 



P. officinale. Linn. Sp. PI. 353. Willd. v. 1 . 1405. Fl. Br. 304. 

 Engl.Bot. V.25. t. \767. 



P. n. 4. Gmel.Sib.v. 1.188. <. 41. 



Peucedanum. Rail Sijn. 206. Trag. Hist. 880./. 88 1 . Hod. Pempt. 

 317. f. Ger. Em. 1054. f. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.150. f ; bad. Ga- 

 mer. Epit. 550./; not good. 



P. germanicum. Bauh. Pin. 149. 



P. majus italicum. Ibid. 



P. minus germanicimi, et mnjus italicum. Bauh. Hist. ii.3. p. 2. 

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