PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Heracleum. 101 



1. P. sativa. Common Wild Paisnep. 

 Leaves simply pinnate ; downy beneath. 



P. sativa. Linn. Sp. PL 376. mild. v. 1. 1466. Fl. Br. 328. Engl. 



Bot. v.S. t.556. Mart. Rust. t. 83. 

 P. sylvcstm. Huds. \25. Relh. 122. Siblh. lOl. Abbot 67. 

 P. n. 808. Hiill. Hist. v. 1.359. 

 P. Kylvestris latifolia. RaiiSijn.206. Ger. Em. 1025./. Bauh. 



Pin. 1&5. Dod. Pempt. 680./. Moris, v. 3. 314. sect. 9. t. 16, 



/•2. 

 Pastinaca. Trag. Hist. 439./ 440. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 6. 

 P. domestica. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 106. f. Camer.Epit.507.f. 

 Siser sylvestre. Fuchs. Hist. 753./ 



About the borders of fields, on hillecks and dry banks, in a chalky 

 soil. 



Biennial. July. 



i?oo( spindle-shaped, white, aromatic, mucilaginous and sweet, with 

 a degree of acrimony which it loses by cultivation, becoming the 

 eatable garden Parsnep. Stem a yard high, erect, branched, 

 leafy, angular, deeply furrowed, roughish. Leaves oblong, pin- 

 nate, with footstalks dilated and concave at the base ,• leaflets 

 from 3 or 5 to 9, opposite, ovate, serrated and cut, bright green, 

 downy at the back ; the terminal one 3-lobed. Umbels termi- 

 nal, erect, of several unequal, angular, downy roys; partial ones 

 of more numerous rays. Both are usually naked ; but there is 

 occasionally a solitary lanceolate bractea, under the general, as 

 well as partial, umbels. Fl. yellow, small, some of the inner- 

 most not unfrequently abortive. Fruit large, pale brown when 

 quite ripe. 



171. HERACLEUM. Cow-parsnep. 



Linn. Gen. 137. Juss. 222. Fl. Br. 306. Spreng. Prodr. 12. Lam- 



t. 200. 

 Sphondylium. Tourn. t. 170. Gcertn. t. 21. 



Fl. incompletely separated; the inner ones barren, or 

 abortive ; those of the circumference perfect and prolific. 

 Cal. of 5 small, acute teeth, obliterated in the fruit. Pet. 

 5, inversely heart-shaped, with an inflexed jioint ; in the 

 innermost flowers smallest, nearly equal and regular ; in 

 those of the circumference much larger, irregular, and 

 radiant, the outer one largest, with equal lobes, the rest 

 more or less unequally divided ; the 2 inner ones smallest. 

 Filam. thread-shaped, longer than the corolla, spreading, 

 a little incurved. . Anth. roundish. Gei-m. inferior, ovate, 

 slightly compressed transversely. Styles at first erect, 

 rather short; subsequently flattened, spreading, and some- 



