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Hogs Fennel. 
Peucedanum vulgare. 
The root is long and thick, and at the top is 
ufually covered with a thaggy matter, formed of 
the ribs of decayed ftalks: it is black on the out- 
fide, green within, and, when cut, yields a yel- 
low juice of a ftrong unpleafant fell. 
The firft leaves are placed on long footftalks : 
they are large, and they are divided and fubdi- 
vided by threes into a multitude of long, narrow 
fegments. 
The ftalk isa yard high, ftriated, and branched ; 
and the leaves are placed irregularly on it, and are 
like thofe from the root. 
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The flowers are {mall and yellow. 
It is common by the Thames fide in Kent and 
Effex, and elfewhere. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Peucedanum Germanictn. 
Others, Peucedanum vulgare. 
: Tt is an unpleafant, but a very valuable medi- 
cine. ; 
A fyrup made of the juice of the root with ho- 
| hey is excellent in afthmatick cafes, 
A decoction of it operates by urine, and is good. 
| againft obftructions of the vifcera. . 
It is alfo good outwardly in headachs. 
Vv. 
SHEPHERDS NEEDLE. 
Sy Geek NN DINE TX, 
HE flowers are difpofed in fmall umbells upon long divided ftalks; which have no general cup, 
but a few oblong leaves to the fubdivifions, Each flower is compofed of five unequal petals, of 
a heart-fafhioned fhape. The cup is very minute. The feeds are long, and fharp-pointed: two 
grow together; and each is rounded and ftriated on the outfide, and fmooth and flat within. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads being five, and the ftyles two. 
DIVISION 1 
Shepherds Needle.’ 
Scandix vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few flight fibres. 
» The leaves are fmall, and fupported on fhort 
footftalks : they are very finely divided ; and their 
colour is a very dark green. 
The ftalks are numerous, green, branched, 
and a foot high. 
DIVISION IL 
Small Shepherds Nettle. 
Scandix minor. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The leaves are divided into numerous and 
very {mall fegments; and they have a pleafant 
fmell. 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, ftriated, 
and a foot high, 
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The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and re- 
femble thofe from the root ; but they are fimaller, 
The flowers are moderately large and white. 
The feeds are long and flender. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
Auguft. - rey 
C. Bauhine calls it Scandix Jemine roffrato vy/!- 
garis, Others, Peéten Veneris. 
Its virtues are not known. 
F‘O:'R-E LGN: SPE CLE S, 
The leaves are placed alternately on thefe, and 
their footftalks furround the ftalk at the bafe: 
they are like thofe from the root, but fmaller, 
The flowers ftand at the extremities of the 
branches in little umbells; and they are fimall 
and white. 2 
The feeds are long, and very flender. 
It is common in the Greek jflands, where they 
eat the young leaves in fallads. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scandix Cretica minor. 
VI. 
CHERVILL 
CHHROPHYLLUM. 
THE ‘flowers are difpofed in broad, fpreading umbells, on divided and fubdivided branches ; and 
they have no cup to furround their bafe at the ftalk, but fome long leaves under the fubdi- 
vifions. Each fower is compofed of five bent and heart-fafhioned petals. The cup is very minute 5 
and the feeds are oblong, flender, and pointed at the top, rounded on the outfide, and flat 
within. 
each flower. 
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Linneus places this among the pentandria digynia; the threads being five, and the ftyles two in, 
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