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BRITISH H EPR BAL: 
DIVISION IL 
Garden-Parfnep. 
Poftinacha fativa, 
‘The root is very large, white, long, tender, and 
of a {weet tafte. : 
The leaves which rife firft from it are large, 
elegantly and regularly divided in the pinnated 
manner, and of a yellowifh green. | 
The ftalk is two yards high, firm, branched, 
yellowith, ftriated, and hollow. 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root ; but they are fmaller. 
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The flowers are little and yellow, and the feeds 
are light and broad. : 
It is wild in the Greek iflands; where it ac- 
quires the full ftature, but has not the true {weet- 
nefs of the root unlefs cultivated. 
It appears we had the feeds originally thence , 
though we have now fo long cultivated the plant 
from thofe ripened in our gardens, that it has been 
forgotten. 
C. Bauhine calls it Paffinacha latifolia fativa. 
All know the ufe of the roots in food; and 
they are very nourifhing and wholefome. 
III, 
TORDYLIUM 
THE flowers are difpofed in moderately large, itregular umbells, on divided and fubdivided 
*  footftalks; and have at the bottom a kind of cup, formed of feveral long, narrow leaves. Each 
flower is compofed of five regular petals, which are bent, and heart-fafhioned. The cup is fmall. 
The feeds are large and roundifh, two grow together, and they have ferrated edges, 
Linnzus places this among the peatandria digynia the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles two. 
1. Great Tordylium. 
Lordylium majus. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few ftraggling fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and divided in the 
pinnated manner into numerous, fhort, obtufe 
fegments. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and five feet high: 
it is ftriated, a little hairy, as are alfo the leaves, 
and is divided into feveral branches toward the 
top. 
The leaves are placed alternately on it; and 
they refemble thofe from the root, but that they 
are fmaller. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are large, flat, and broad, brown or 
redifh in the middle, and whitith at the edges. 
We have it in dry paftures, and under hedges, 
but not common, It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Se/éli Creticum majus. 
Others, Tordylium maximum. We have no Eng- 
lifh name for any plant of this genus. 
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2. Small Tordylium. 
Tordylium minus. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and fupported on 
long footftalks: they aré compofed each of a 
great number of f{mall, ; fhort, and broad feg- 
ments, which have alfo their feparate long foot- 
ftalks. 
The ftalk is round, ftriated, branched, and 
about a foot high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
tefemble thofe from the root, but that they are 
{maller. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are large, and very beautiful : they 
form together a kind of flat fruit, which has a 
whitith curled edge. 
It is found in our fouthern counties, but is not 
common. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sefeli Creticum minus, 
The feeds are carminative; and they work alfo 
by urine. 
IV. 
HOGS FENNEL. 
POE Co EB As NEU eM 
THE flowers are difpofed in a very large umbel, upon divided and fubdivided branches; and the 
whole is furrounded at its bafe by a number of narrow, crooked or twifted leaves, Each flower 
is compofed. of five oblong, 
undivided petals; and the cup to it is fmall, and divided by five 
dents at the edge. The feeds are oblong and ftriated. 
Linnaus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads in the flower being three, and 
the ftyles two. 
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