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The BRITISH HERBA Ls 
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1.) Wild Myrrhis. 
Cherophyllum fylveftre. 
The root is long, white, and hard, and has a 
fweetifh tafte, but with a fharpnefs, and’an aro- 
matick. flavour. : 
The firft leaves are divided into a great num- 
ber of fegments, which are of a pale green, a 
little hairy, and ftand on hairy ribs. | 
The ftalk is hollow, ftriated, and branched, 
and is a yard high. ; 
The leaves are placed alternately on it, and re- 
femble thofe from the root, 
The flowers are fmall and white; and the 
feeds, when they are ripe, are brown. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cherephyllum fylvejre. 
Others, Myrrbis filvefris, Cerefolium Jylveftre, 
and Anthrifcus Plinit. 
When the plant is in flower, the ftalk {wells 
juft under the joints. 
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Garden-Chervill. 
Cherophyllum fativum. 
The root is long, thick, white, and of an aro- 
matick, and not difagreeable tafte. 
The leaves that rife firft are large, and divided 
into numerous, broad, fhort, indented fegments ; 
of a pale green colour, and of an agreeable fla- 
vour. ; 
The ftalks are ftriated, hollow, upright, 
branched, and {welled in a kind of round knots 
under the joints. 
The leaves on them réfemble thofe from the 
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“2. Wild Chervill. 
_ Charophyllum caule equali. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are very-large, and they are 
formed of numerous indented fegments: they are 
naturally of a dufky green, and fometimes they 
are redifh. : 
The ftalk is upright, ftriated, and a yard and 
half high : it is divided into many branches ; and 
it is of a regular thicknels, not {welling at the 
joints as the other. 
The flowers are {mall and white ; and the feeds 
are oblong and brown. 
It is common by hedges, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Myrrhis fylveftris Seminibus 
levibus. Others, Cicutaria. Our people, Cow- 
weed, 
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root; but the fegments are narrower, and they 
are of a paler green. : 
The flowers are fmall and white; and the feeds, 
when ripe, are black. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in June. y 
C. Bauhine calls it Cherophyllum fatioum. Our 
gardeners call it Sweet fern, 
It is an agreeable plant in fallads ; and, when 
taken as amedicine, operates by urine; and is good 
again{t obftructions of the vifcera. 
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THE flowers are difpofed in {preading umbells on divided and fubdivided ftalks ; and at the bafe 
of thefe on the ftalk grow a number of long, narrow leaves, 
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nearly equal petals ; which are of a heart-fathioned fhape, 
Each flower is compofed of five 
nute. The feeds are oblong, and {maller at one end, and rounded and ftriated on one fide, and flat 
and plain on the other, 
Linneus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads being five, 
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Common Spignell. 
Meum vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres: it is brown on the outfide, and white 
within, and has a firm heart: the outer fubftance 
is tender, and of an aromatick, and not difagree- 
able tafte. There frequently are fide-fhoots from 
the old roots ; and at their tops there ufually is a 
large thready tuft, of a brown colour, which is 
formed of the fibres of decayed footftalks, 
The leaves which rife from the root are large, 
and of a blackifh green colour; and they are di- 
and the ftyles two. 
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vided in an elegant manner into regular and ex- 
tremely flender fegments. j 
The ftalk is upright, ftriated, branched, and 
two feet high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root ; 
but they are fmaller, and fomewhat paler co- 
loured. on 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds, when ripe, are black. 
It is found in our weftern counties in rich, 
damp foils, but not common. It flowers in 
June. ; : ; 
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and fomewhat bent. The cup is very mi- 
