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NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



same species, Fdniculum vulgare,^ -which appears indigenous to all 

 Western and Mediterranean Europe, and which, in ancient times, 

 was cultivated and employed for its aromatic and stimulating 

 properties. Its young shoots form an aliment, its leaves and fruit a 

 condiment. From the latter are prepared a distilled water and an 

 essential oil, and they also enter into several other medicinal pre- 

 parations. The Chervil (fig. 153) is Oharophyllum Cerefolium,^ 

 believed to be a native of Southern Europe. It is now chiefly a 

 condiment, with aromatic taste and smell. G. sylvestre^ (fig. 151, 

 152) is a suspected, narcotic plant ; its young shoots and roots, 

 however, are sometimes eaten as potherbs. C temulum* common 

 in our woods and hedges, is also considered poisonous. C. hulbosum,^ 

 now often cultivated, has fleshy roots with a sweet and aromatic 

 flavour, and forms an agreeable aliment.* Myrrhis, so near Ghcefo- 

 jjhyllum in organization, has nearly the same properties. M. odorata^ 

 (fig. 154, 155), known by the common name of Musk Chervil, some- 

 times forms an aliment and a condiment. The American Osmorrhiza ^ 

 is a Myrrhis, and has its properties. The same may be said of 

 Scandix, particularly S. australis ' and gilanica}° S. Pecten Veneris " 

 (fig. 156), remarkable for the long beak of its fruit, and so common 



' Gjertn. FnicL i. 105.— DC. Frodi: iv. 142, 

 n. 1. — GuiB. Mroff. Simpl. ed. 6, iii. 228. — 

 Flock, et Hanb. Pharmaeogr. 274. — F. duleeC. 

 Batjh. Pin. 147. — F. officinale Axl. Fl. ptdem. 

 n. 1359. — F. Paiimorium DC. loc. (At. n. 4. — F. 

 piperitmn DC. loc. cit. n. 3. — Anethum Faenicu- 

 him L. Spec. 722. — A. Parimorium Eoxb. Cat. 

 Sort. Calc. 22.— Hatn. Arzn. Gew. t. 18.— 

 Meum Fceniculum Spbeng. 



^ Crantz, Fl. Austr. 191. — 0. sativum Lamk. 

 Diet. i. 684. — Scandix Cerefiilium L. Spec. 368. — 

 AnthrisCHs Cerefolium Hoffm. Umb. 41, 47, t. 1, 

 fig. 21.— DO. Prodr. iv. 223, n. 6.— GuiB. loc. 

 cit. 218. — Cerefolium sativum Bess. Gal. i. 218. 



'L. Spec. 3G9. — C. alpinum Vill. — C. ma- 

 gcllense Ten. — Anthrisctis syhestris Hoffm. Vmb. 

 40, 46. 



'li.Spee. 370.— DC. Prodr. iv. 226, n. 7.— 

 Gren. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. i. 745. — Myrrhis 

 temula G^rtn. — Scandix temula Eoth. — S. nu- 

 tans MCENCH. 



= L. Spec. 370.— DC. Prodi: iv. 225, n. 6.— 



Grex. et GoDB. loc. cit. 743. — Myrrhis hulbosa 

 Spreng. — Scandix bulbosa. Eoth. 



* C. tuberosum Eotle, Prescottii DC. hirsutum 

 L. have analogous properties. 



' Scop. Fl.carniol.ii. n. 341. — DC. Prodr. iv. 

 231. — EosENTH. op. cit. 555.— Seandix odorata 

 L. Spec. 368. — C/imrophgllum odoratum Lame. 

 Pict.i. 683. 



' Chiefly 0. Claytonii {Myrrhis Claytonii 

 ToRR.).— 0. longistylis DC— 0. bremstylis DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 232. 



9 L. Spec. 569.— DO. Prodr. iv. 221.— Eo- 

 SEKTH. op. cit. 553. — Myrrhis australis HoFPM. 

 — Oharophyllum australe Crantz. 



'» Gmel. It. iii. 304, t. 31, fig. 2.— DC. Prodr. 

 iii. 222, n. 9. 



1' L. Spec. 368.— DC. Prodr. iii. 221, n. 2.— 

 Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 740.— S. PieUn 

 HoFFM. Umb. i. 24, t. 1, fig. 2i.—Cha>rophtjllim 

 Pecten Veneris Crantz.— C rostratum Lamk. 

 {fart).— Myrrhis Pecten Veneris All. Fl. Pedem. 

 n. 1376. 



