PARSLEY FAMILY 



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unequal, and //v/// produced into a very long slender beak. (Name, 

 the Greek name for some allied plant.) 



I. .S'. /Vr/t'«- r<7?(-;7j- (Shepherd's Needle, \'enus' Comb). — A 

 small plant, 3 — 9 in. high, with finely-cut bright-green leaves ; 

 few-rayed umbels of small white J/oic'crs : and long, beaked //-///A'. 

 — A weed in cultivated ground ; common,, liut for the ovary 

 being inferior, this plant might be mistaken for an Erodiiim. — 

 Fl. June — September. Annual. 



SCAN'DIX pecten--vi^;neki'^ {Shc/^hcyiTs NLWi/t-^l'cnus' Ct^a/l'). 



2 7,. Skseli (Meadow Saxifrage). — Erect branched plants ; /ein'e<: 

 2 — 3- or more-pinnate; uiiibt'ls compound; bracts &nd bi-acfcoies 

 many, entire ; //owers white se/a/s acute ; fruit short, with no 

 beak or bristles and blunt ridges. (Name of Greek origin.) 



I. 5. Libanbtis (Mountain ^Meadow Saxifrage). — A stout plant, 

 I — 2 feet high, with a solid, furrowed stent ,• bipinnate leaves . 

 hemispherical umbels : ha.\ry fruit : and persistent, reflexed stales. 

 — 'Chalk-hills, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Sussex. — Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



2.). FcF.NicuLUM (Fennel). — Tall, smooth' plants, with decom- 



