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Th BRITISH HERBAL, 
4.-Tall Burnet Saxifrage. 
Pimpinella faxifraga elatior. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
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: oe a leaves are large, broad, and divided 
into many fmall, ferrated, and fharp-pointed 
fegments. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and four feet 
high; and toward the top it is parted into many 
branches, 
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The leaves on this are divided into a few long 
and. narrow fegments, fearce at all ferrated, and 
of a faint green. 
The feeds are large, and they are tharp-tafted. 
It is common in our weftern counties, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Smyrnium tenuifolium noftras, Others, 
Pimpinella faxifraga bircina maxima. 
The virtues of thefe are the fame with thofe of 
the common {mall kind, butin an inferior degree; 
XV, 
C°A R A WAY, 
CARU MM. 
FYAUE fowers are difpofed in moderately large umbells, 
ap branches ; and there are no leaves at the bafe, 
divifions. Each flower is compofed of five petals, 
The cup is very fmall; and the feeds are oblong, 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digy 
ftyles two. There is but one known {pecies of thi 
The Caraway Plant. 
Carum, 
The root is long, thick, white, and of a fweet, 
but acrid tafte, : 
The firft leaves are very finely divided into feg- 
ments ; and they are of a freth green, and {mooth. 
The ftalk is round, ftriated, and toward the 
top divided into feveral branches. 
The leaves ftand alternately on it; and are 
like thofe from che root, only fmaller, 
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placed on divided and fubdivided 
either of the principal branches, or of their fub- 
which are nipped at the end, and turned down: 
flender, and ftriated. . 
mia the threads in the flower being five, and the 
S genus, 
The flowers ate placed in little umbells 3 and 
are {mall and white, with a faint dath of red. 
The feeds are oblong and brown, 
It is found wild in our weftern counties; but 
it is not eafy to fay whether it does not rife from 
feeds fcattered by accident, and brought from 
elfewhere. 
C.Bauhine calls it Carum pratenfe: carvi officina- 
rum. 
The feeds are an excellent carminative ; and 
are ufed both in foods and medicine. 
XVI, 
SEA-PARSLEY, 
TOE AVON S ATT CR aT 
HE flowers are difpofed in large umbells upon divided and fubdivided branches : 
I bafe of the principal branches there ftand 
fions fewer. 
The leaves are divided by threes. 
. Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynias the threads in the flower being five, 
ftyles two. 
He joins it in one genus with the 
difference fufficiently, 
Of this genus, thus diftinguithed, there is but one known fpecies, 
Scottith Sea-Parfley. 
Levifticum foliis biternatis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
a few fibres. : 
The firft leaves are numerous, and fupported 
on long footftalks, which are purplith at the bafe. 
The ftalk is round, ftriated, and upright; three 
feet high, and toward the top divided into nu- 
merous branches, 
about feven leaves, 
Each flower is compofed of five petals 
at the 
and at the bafe of the fubdivi- 
3 and thefe are oblong, and ftriated on one fide. 
and the 
Ligufticum, or common lovage; but the leaves exprefs the 
and that is a native of Britain: 
The leaves aye placed irregularly on it; and 
both thefe and thofe which grow from the roots 
are large and divided into numerous, long, and 
flender fegments, in threes, i 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is common on the’ coafts of Scotland, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Liguficum Scoticum api folio. 
Others, Apium Scoticum, 
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