158 PENTANDRiA DIGYNIA. 



bald lays it grows upon the banks of Brdck- 

 Water ^ in Weji-Lothian, %, V. 

 The root has a warm fpicy tafte, and is fometimes 

 ufed in medicine as a carminative and diuretic. 



CRITHMUM. Gen. VI. 340. 

 Fru5fus ovalis, comprelTus. Fl of cull cequales. 

 mantlmum CRITHMUM foliolis lanceolatis carnofis. Sp. ph 

 ^' 354. {Ger, Em. 533./. i. Moris, hili. f. 9. /. 7. 



/. I. ordinis fuperioris.) 

 Sampire. Anglis. 



Upon the rocks by the fea-fide in Galloway. Sib- 

 bald. i^.VIII. 

 The common involucrum confifts of five leaves, 



the partial ones each of feven. 

 The leaves of this plant are ufed in England as a 

 well-known pickle, of a warm aromatic flavor. 



HERACLEUM. Gen. PI. 345. 

 Frucfus ellipticus, emarginatus, comprelTus, ftria- 

 tus, marginatus. Cor. difformis, inflexo-emargi- 

 nata. Involucr. caducum. 

 fphondyJitim HERAGLEUM foliolis pinnatifidis lasvibus, flori- 

 j. bus radiatis. Syft. Nat. 210. Sp. pi. 358. {Ger. 



Em. 1009. Moris, hifi.j. 9 /. 16. fig. media or- 

 dinis fuperioris Pet. herb. t. 24. /. 1.) 

 Cow Parfnep. Anglis. 



In meadows and borders of fields frequent. ^ . 

 Gmelin^ in his Flor. Sibirica^ p. 214, tells us, that 

 the inhabitants of Camtfchatca^ about the be- 

 ginning of Jiilj:, collc6l the footftalks of the ra- 

 dical 



