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_ Linnaeus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads in each flower being five, and 
the ftyles two, 
This author joins the [phondylium and panas Heracleum in one 
Sphondylium, calls it Heraclea. But there is fufficient diftin@ion 
antient name may very well be retained, 
Daw 1S ON 
_ 1. Cow-Parfnep. 
Sphondyhium vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and white, and of a 
{weetifh, but fomewhat acrid tafte. . 
The firft leaves are very large, deeply divided 
in the pinnated manner, of a rough furface, and 
of a pale green. é 
The ftalk is fix feet high, upright, firm, 
ftriated, and of a pale green; often purplith to- 
ward the bottom. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk and 
of the branches; and they are white: they are 
very numerous, and are difpofed in extremely 
broad umbells. 
The feeds are very large and brown. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in 
July. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Sphondylium vulgare birfu- 
tum. Others, Sphondylium vulgare. 
It is an emollient outwardly applied. 
DIVISION I. 
Dwarf Cow-Parfnep: 
Sphondylium pumilum. 
The root is long, flender, and redifh: 
The leaves that firft rife from it are fmall, 
and divided into five parts, fupported on long 
footftalks, and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, branched, and a 
foot high. 
Gussie Ny PtP ots 
genus; and, taking away the name. 
between thefe two genera; and the 
BRITISH SPRC]EEé. 
2. Jagged Cow-Parfnep, 
Sphondylium foliis tenuius divifis. 
The root is long, thick, and white. 
The firft leaves are extremely large; and they 
are very deeply divided in the pinnated manner 
into narrow, and in fome degree curled feements, 
The colour is a pale greyith green ; and the whole 
leaf is hairy, 
The ftalk is uptight and ftriated, not much 
branched, and five or fix feet high. 
The leaves on this are placed alternately, and 
they refemble thofe from the root : they are of a 
pale green, and rough. * 
The flowers are white, and have a faint tinge 
of purple often very agreeably thaded over them : 
they ftand in rounder and fmaller umbells than in 
the other. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
We have it very frequently in hilly paftures, 
Tr flowers in Auguft. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Sphondylitm birfutum Solis 
anguftioribus. 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The leaves on it are fmall, divided into thrée 
parts, and fupported on flender foorftalks, 
The flowers are fmall and redith. 
It is a native of the hilly parts of Germany, 
and flowers in Auguft. : 
Cc. Bauhine calls it Sphondylium Alpinum par- 
vu. 
Il. 
PARSNEP., 
OPEB Sy dg LAAN, A GOTT te: 
HE. flowers are difpofed in large, rounded, but flat umbells, on divided and fubdivided ftalles i 
thefe rife naked from the ftalk, having no leafy cup. Each flower is compofed of five petals; 
which are pointed and crooked. The cup is very minute, but is divided into five parts; and the 
feeds are of a flatted, oblong figure, and foliaceous. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia, the thréads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles two. 
DIVISION Tf. 
Wild Parfnep. ‘ 
Poftinacha fylocftris. 
The root is long, flender, white, woody, and 
et tafte: : 
oa AP leaves are large, and beautifully di- 
vided in the pinnated manner ; their fegments 
being numerous and narrow, and their colour a 
yellowifh green. é 
The ftalk is upright, firm; branched, ftriated, 
and of a yellowifh colour. 
NeXL: - 
BRIUHISH. SPECIES; 
The leaves ftand alternately on it} and they 
refemble thofe from the root, but they are fmaller. 
The flowers are little; and of a faint yellow.- 
It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in 
Auguft. ; . 
C. Bauhine calls it Paftinacha filveftris latifolia; 
Others, Elaphobefcum. . 
Sorne have thought the garden-par/uep raifed 
from this by culture; but repeated trials thew 
otherwife. 
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