Pastinaca.] umbellifee^. 213 



The warm aromatic piukle prepared with this plant is greatly esteemed and 

 commonly seen at table in this island. The herb minced is also served up with 

 melted hulter in lieu of caper-sauce. For the purpose of pickling it is annually 

 collected in large quantity from the cliffs at Freshwater, and sent up to some 

 wholesale houses in London, by the cliffsmen, who make samphire-gathering a 

 part of their summer occupation, and for which, when cleaned and sorted, they 

 receive 4s. per bushel. It is put up in casks with sea-water, for its better preser- 

 vation on the journey, and probably also to extract any bitterness it may contain. 

 For smaller quantities the charge for collecting is Is. per gallon. The samphire 

 is considered in perfection when just about to flower or towards the end of May. 



[b. Fruit more or less prickly, beaked or winged.'] 



* Syndicarps much and dorsally compressed, broadly elliptical or nearly orbicular^ 

 from the winy-like dilatation of the marginal ridges. 



XX. Angelica, Linn. Angelica. 



" Fruit flat, with 2 wings on each side. Carpels with 3 elevated 

 dorsal ribs, the lateral ones spreading into broad wings. Calyx- 

 teeth small or obsolete. Petals elUptical-lanceolate, entire and 

 inflected at the point." — Br. Fl. 



1. A. sylvestris, L. Wild Angelica. " Leaflets equal ovate 

 serrated at the base somewhat lobed, calyx-teeth obsolete, fruit 

 with the interstices of the ridges having single vittae, seed adher- 

 ing without vittffi."— 5r. Fl. p. 172. E. B. t. 1128. 



In damp, swampy or boggy woods and thickets, osier-beds, alder-cars, by river- 

 sides, in wet hedges and other watery places ; very common. Fl. August, Sep- 

 tember. Fr. September, October. If.. 



Carpels nearly orbicular from the broadly winged lateral ridges ; mericarps flat- 

 tish, the 3 dorsal ridges bluntish, keeled, close together, the 2 lateral ones margi- 

 nal, very thick, attenuated to a membranous very broad wing ; mtte single between 

 the ridges, with 2 often confluent commissural ones. 



XXI. Pastinaca, Linn. Parsnip. 



" Fruit flat, with a broad border. Carpels with 3 dorsal and 2 

 distant marginal ribs on the border, with single filiform vittcB, the 

 length of the fruit, in the interstices. Calyx-teeth nearly obso- 

 lete. Petals roundish, entire, involute, with a sharp point. (In- 

 volucres 0, or of few leaves). Diifers from Heracleum in the 

 entire involute petals, and filiform, not clubbed, vittse." — J5r. Fl. 



1. P. sativum, L. Common Parsnip. " Stem furrowed, leaves 

 pinnate downy beneath, leaflets ovate cut and serrated, ultimate 

 one 3-lobed, involucres none, fruit oval." — Br. Fl. p. 173. E. B. 

 t. 556. 



In pastures and waste places, by roadsides, the borders of fields, on hedgebanks, 

 and in woods ; abundantly in most of the chalky districts. Fl. July August. Fr. 

 September. $ . 



E. Med. — About Binstead stone-pits. Abundant between Luccombe and 

 Bonchurch. Sandown bay. 



W. Med. — Abundantly around the cornfields about Yarmouth, Freshwater, 

 Calbourne, Thorley, &c. 



