100 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Pastinaca. 



Peucedanus. Fuchs. Hist. 599./. 

 Hogs Fennel. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24./. 7. 



In salt marshes ; very rare. 



In ditches near Shoreham, Sussex ; and at Walton, near Har«-ich, 

 Essex. Raij. About a quarter of a mile below Feversham, by 

 the river side. Sherard. It still grows there, as well as on a 

 cliff, by the sea, at Hearn, 6 miles from Whitstable. Mr. Crow 

 of Feversham. Never found in Norfolk. 



Perennial. July — September. 



Herb smooth, tough, slender, 3 or 4 feet high, with a resinous juice, 

 and a strong sulphureous smell. Leaves copious, their ultimate 

 segments, or leaflets 3 together, either quite linear and almost 

 capillary, or linear-lanceolate, flat, though very narrow, pointed, 

 3-ribbed, 1 \ inch long. Umbels erect, 3 or 4 inches broad. 

 Flowers numerous, of an uniform buft" yellow. Many stimulat- 

 ing qualities have been attributed to the root^ but it should seem 

 to be rather dangerous for internal use. 



170. PASTINACA. Parsnep. 



Linn. Gen. \AA. Juss. 219. H. Br. 323. Tourn. t. ]70. Spreng. 

 Prodr. 14. Lam. L 206. Gcertn. t.2\. 



Fl. all regular, uniform, }3erfect, and generally prolific. 

 Cal. of 5 very minute, obsolete teeth, permanent, con- 

 cealed by the floral receptacle. Pet. 5, broad-lanceolate, 

 pointed, involute, equal. Stam. thread- shaped, spreading, 

 about the length of the petals. Anth. roundish. Germen 

 inferior, ovate, compressed transversely, obscurely stri- 

 ated. Sti/les in the flower very short, erect; subsequently 

 spreading, recurved, moderately elongated; greatly di- 

 lated, rather depressed, at the base, and confluent with 

 the broad, orbicular, wavy, rather thin, Jl. 7-ecept. Stig- 

 mas capitate. Fruit broadly elliptical, somewhat obovate, 

 compressed transversel}', crowned with the fl. recept. and 

 styles. Seeds of the same form, with a slight notch at the 

 summit ; very nearly flat at the back, with 3 dorsal ribs, 

 and 2 distant, more prominent and broader ones, at the 

 cii-cumference, be^-ond which is a thin, narrow, even, 

 acute border ; their inner surface flat, marked with a 

 pair of continued, converging, browni lines, shorter than 

 the seed. Juncture close, flat, parallel to the seeds, and 

 nearly as broad. 

 Large, broad-leaved, biennial or perennial, sweetish or 

 bitter, aromatic plants, with more or less roughness on 

 their surface. Fl. yellow. Seeds light brown, darker be- 

 tween the ribs. 



