Pastindca.'] 



XXXVIII. UMBELLIFER^. 



181 



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Moist woods and 

 11. 7, 8. — Plant 2 

 as well as the umbels. 



Hog's-Fennel. (Tab. II. f. 25.) 



marshy places, especially near rivers, frequent. 

 3 feet high. Stem purplish, pubescent above, 

 - Inferior in its qualities to the former species. 



25. Peucebanum Linn. 



Fruit flat with a broad thin boarder.^ Carpels with 5 slightly 

 prominent nearly equidistant ribs, the 2 lateral ones obsolete, 

 vUtce single in the interstices. Pet obovate or obcordate with 

 an inflected point. (Partial involucre of many leaves.) 

 Named from 7r6u,vf/, a pine-tree^ and Savog^ ^ gift 7 on account of 

 a resinous substance, which exudes from some of the species. 



1. P. officinale L. (Sea J/., or Sea Sulphur -weed) ; leaves five 

 times tripartite, leaflets linear-filiform flaccid, involucres few 

 linear deciduous, calyx 5-tooth.ed, fruit with a narrow margin. 



E, B. t. 1767. 



L 



In salt-marshes, very rare, Kent and the coast of Essex. 2/.. 

 7 — 9. — Remarkable for its larp^e umbels of yellow Jloiversy and its 

 long and extremely narrow leaflets,, The whole plant, especially the 

 Toot^ has a strpng sulphurous smell, and the latter yields a resinous 

 substance, reckoned a stimulant, but of dangerous internal use. 



2. P.palustre Mcench (Marsh H.^ or Milk" Parsley) ; milky, 

 leaves tcrnately decompound, leaflets opposite pinnatifid, seg- 

 ments linear-lanceolate with a hard point, rays of the umbel 

 rough, involucres of many persistent lanceolate leaves, calyx 

 S-toothed, fruit with a narrow margin. Selinum. E. B. t. 229. 



Marshy and boggy places, but ap[Kirently very local. Yorkshire 

 and Lancashire; about Norwich and the Isle of Ely; Burwell Fen, 

 Cambridgeshire. Ardincaple on the Clyde. 2/.. 7 — 8. — .S'^em fur- 

 rowed, 4 — 5 feet high, with very compound leavesy abounding in a 

 miiky juice, which dries to a brown resin. Flowers white, 



3. P, * Ostritthiiun Koch (hroad-leaved J/., or Master- Wort) ; 

 leaves biternate, leaflets broadly ovate lobed incise-serrate, 

 unequal at the base, sheaths very large, universal involucre 

 none, calyx -teeth obsolete, fruit with a very broad margin. 

 Imperatoria. E, B, t. 1380. ^ 



Moist pastures in the N. of England",' and in various parts of Scot- 

 land ; the plant was formerly much cultivated as a potherb, %, 6. 

 — Flowers white. Partial involucres several, subulate. 



26. Pastinaca Linn, Parsnep. 



.) 



Fridt flat, with a broad border. Carpels with 3 dorsal and 

 2 distant marginal ribs on the border, with single filiform vitta.^^ 

 the length of the fruit, in the interstices. Cal-teeth nearly 

 obsolete. Pet, roundish, entire, involute, with a sharp point. 



* In this genus and the three next, the wing of the fruit, being composed of the 

 margin of two carpels, may separate in maturity into a double wing; but in Ange- 

 lica the wing is always double. . 



