‘The 
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Candy Daucus. 
Daucus Creticus. 
The‘ root is long, fmall, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The ftalks are weak, flender, ftriated, and a 
foot high. 
The | leaves at the bottom are divided into nu- 
merous, narrow fegments; and they are of a 
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UMBELLIFEROUS 
greyifh green colour. thofe on the upper part 
of the plant are cut into longer and yet fae 
derer parts. 
The flowers are fmall and white ; and the feeds 
are oblong, rough, and brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Daucus Alpinus multifide 
folio. Others, Daucus Cretenfis. 
The feeds are carminative and diuretick. 
S XVII. 
PoB) Belt TEsOoR yy. 
PYRETHRUM UMBELLIFERUM. 
4 tee flowers are placed in umbells on fubdivided branches; and there are no leaves, either at the 
bafes of the principal or leffer divifions. 
five oblong petals. 
‘The cup is véry minute. 
The feeds are oblong, and lightly ftriated. 
Each flower is compofed of 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria with the preceding. 
Umbelliferous Pellitory. 
Pyrethrum umbelliferum. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a few 
fibres: it is of a brown colour, and a very acrid 
tafte. 
The ftalk is ftriated, and three feethigh; di- 
vided into numerous branches, and of a pale 
green. 
The leaves are very beautifully formed of mi- 
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nute, plone: fegments; and are of a fhining 
green. 
The owes are fmall and white, and the feeds 
are brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and fome of the 
warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pyrethrum umbelliferum: a 
name moft others have copied. 
The root held in the mouth is good againft the 
toothach, as that of the right pel/itory of Spain. 
s XVIII. 
BLACK MASTERWORT. 
A SOTIR AN? CFIA. 
a ee flowers are placed in fmall umbels, upon a few principal branches, with numerous fubdi- 
vifions; and at the bafe of each ftand feveral little leaves. 
Each flower is compofed of five oblong petals, fplit at the Eo. The feeds are oblong, 
at the edge. 
and covered with a kind of cruft. 
The cup is divided by five dents 
© Linnzeus places this with the reft of the umbelliferous plants among rite pentandria, the flowers 
in all having five filaments, 
Black Mafterwort. 
Afivantia. 
© The root is black, and’ compofed of numerous 
fibres. 
The firft’ leaves are placed on long, redifh 
footftalks ;?and: are divided to the bafe into five 
parts: thefe are oblong, ferrated, fharp-pointed; 
and of a deep green on the upper fide, and a yel- 
lowifh green underneath. 
The StAnG are numerous, ftriated, weak, and 
two feet high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are fmaller, and have fewer di- 
vifions, and thofe placed Jefs regularly. 
The flowers terminate the branches in {mall 
umbells ; which are furrounded at the bafe by a 
peculiar kind of leaves, forming a general cup 
and thefe are redifh within. 
The flowers themfelves are of a greenifh Hilo 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
The whole plant has an aromatick tafte. 
It is a native of the mountainous parts of Eu- 
rope, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Helleborus niger fanicula folio 
major. Others, Aftrantia nigra. 
The root is a violent purge, 
The END of the TWENTY-FOURTH CLASS. 
