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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION I. 
Sweet Fennel. 
Feniculum dulce. 
The root is long, thick, and white. 
The firft leaves are of a pale green; and they 
are divided, like thofe of common fennel, into nu- 
merous, fine fegments ; but they are not fo large. 
The ftalk is round, upright, branched, and a 
yard high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they refemble thofe from the root : they are of the 
fame fine divifion, and the fame faint green. 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers are larger than thofe of common feit- 
nel, and of a paler yellow. 
The feeds are large, pale-coloured, and of a 
{weet tafte. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C, Bauhine calls it Feniculum dulce; a name 
| copied by all other writers. 
Its virtues are the fame with thofe of common 
fennel, but the feeds are milder or lefs acrid: 
they are therefore more ufed in medicine. 
S XXIII. 
ROCK-PARSLEY. 
SELINU™M. 
i ae flowers are difpofed in moderately large umbells, on divided and fubdivided branches. 
Each flower is compofed of five oblong, narrow petals; and they are bent downwards: The 
cup is fmall, and divided into five parts ; and the feeds are of an oval form. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles two. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, and thatis a native of Britain. 
Rock-Parfley. 
Selinum. 
The root is long and flender, and hung about 
with feveral fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmall, and of a pale green ; 
and they are in a very elegant manner divided into 
narrow, and pointed fegments, 
The ftalk is ftriated, round, upright, very 
much branched, and about a foot high. 
The leaves on it are placed irregularly ; and 
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they are, like the others, divided into fmall feg- 
ments. : 
The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches ; 
fo that the plant appears covered with them: they 
are fmall and yellow. 
The feeds are brown. 
We have it in our weftern counties very com- 
mon. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pucedanum minus. 
Selinum montanum pumilium. 
Clufius, 
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A hoes flowers are difpofed in large umbells, which grow hollow when they are fallen; and 
there are circles of {mall leaves, both under the whole umbel, and at the bafes of its fub- 
_ divifions. Each flower is compofed of five petals, of irregular fize ; the outer ones being larger than 
the inner ; and all of them are heart-fafhioned, and turned back. The cup is very minute. 
feeds are hairy. 
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Linnzus places this among the pentaxdria digynia, the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles two. 
3, Wild Carrot, called Mountain Stone-Parfley. 
Daucus apium petreum album didtus. 
_ The root is long and thick, of an acrid tafte, 
but not very difagreeable ; of a tender fubftance, | 
white, and hung with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and of a deep green ; 
and they are compofed of numerous, broad, fer- 
rated pinna. 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and to- 
ward the top parted into many branches, 
The leaves on it are divided into narrower feg. 
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ments than thofe from the root; and they are 
of a paler colour, 
The flowers are {mall and white. The feeds 
are brown and hairy, and ftand in a hollow tuft. 
It is found on dry, hilly ground, but not 
common. 
J. Bauhine calls it Apium petreum five monta- 
num album, ©. Bauhine, Daucus apii folio... 
2, Common Carrot. 
Daucus vulgaris. 
The root of the carrot is well known. 
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