NIGELLA. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. none. 
are in danger of being miitaken for one.) 
ovate, flat, obtufe, {preading, contraAed at the ba 
taries from five to ten, fhort, ftalked, ranged in a Grcle, ach 
(The floral leaves in fome fpecies 
Cor. Petals five, 
oa 
qe 
two-lipped ; the outer or pale lip larger, cloven, fome- 
what convex, marked w wo dots; the inner fhorter, nar- 
rower, ovate with a linear termination. Stam. Filaments 
numerous, awl-fhaped, — than the petals ; anthers com- 
preffed, obtufe, erect. . Germens feveral, ite or ten, 
of the inner se eds ri a ode rough. 
. Ch. x none. Petals five. Ne@aries from five 
oO ten, threes two-lipped, crithin the petals. Capfules 
five, conn 
Obf. Willdenow, by an error of the prefs, has capfula 
convene, for connexa. is union of the capfules is, in fe- 
veral {pecies, fo complete, as to form apparently ose fimple 
globofe feed-veffel, of five cells. 
remarks in Curt. Mag. v. 31, under t. 1264. 
oe 1. Styles five. 
- N. damafcena. Common Fennel-flower. Love in 
mit. Devil in a bufh. Linn. Sp. Pl. 753. Curt. Mag. 
t.22. (Melanthium damafcenum; Ger. em. 1084. M. fyl- 
veft rev. 2. 122 ith a double flower, 
litary, encompaffed and cena a by a circle of lea 
much like the reft. saps five, alternate with the cok 
their claw purple; lim 
with a {pre 
The peu 
orm a » almoft »£ 
the wavy “oealing fryles. The feeds when bruifed have a 
lufcious fragrance. Gardeners keep a dwarf variety, more 
apa d in its habit, with {mall white petals. 
. arifiata. Athenian Fennel- ore Sm. Prod. Fl. 
Gan. Sibth. v. 1. t. §10, u own 
—Flowers furrounded with a leafy involucrin Nedtarie 
and anthers awned. —Ga piered 
ed 
nding horns in front, annulated with red; 
the whole clothed with long hairs. The cap/ules are oblong, 
triply keeled, rough with granulations, and combined mere- 
ly at their inner edges, {preading at the top, not globofe nor 
inflated, but seis ny matt of the following ie not 
at . oe the prece 
N. fativa. smi Fennel-flower, or Gith. Linn, 
See Dr. Sims’s excellent | 
fem bubhy, 
nae - 3. FI. Grec. t §it, ig aaa ap Zorn 
Ae cretica ; h. Prod. 7 
vum ; Matt ae v 
lanthium 
fc. 
.em. 1084.)—Involucrum none 
fomewhat eto rough. Neétaries hairy, with blunt 
points. Petals ovate. Leaves rather hairy.—Native of the 
Levant ; common in Greece and the Archipelago. 
thorp determines this fpecies to be the real prasbioy of Diof- 
corides, and records, in his manufcripts, that the modern 
Greeks ftill retain the aie mentioned by this ancient 
writer, of {prinkling its feeds upon their g- 
land it is feldom cultivated but a curity, being lefs hand- 
fome than fome other kinds. is lefs branched, and 
latter eel ending in two 
k a tranfverfe violet {tripe. 
nearly as in Nv. dam 
beaked, as in the laft. 
Field Fennel-flower.— Linn. Sp. Pl. 753. 
(Melanthium fylveftre ; 
Capfules combined, 
afeena, but ror igh. he anthers are 
Fl. Gree. t. 512, unpublifhed. 
ne em. 1084. Spay alterum ; Matth. Valgr. 
v. ae but not Cam pit. t- 553» which feems defigned 
_ Capfules sani rough. 
Petals heart-fha 
Native of fields in Sanne, Francés ar ek and the ile oe 
Cyprus. The jon is branched copiou e 
ottom. Leaves once or twice three-c ef nfually eid 
rounder in their whole outline than any of the foregoing. 
Flowers moft like the laft, but (maller. ny heart-fhap ed 
oO petals, and {mooth yellowith nedaries, though the ee are 
marked with a fimilar purple ftripe, and ond j in knobbed 
points. The fruit moft refembles that of the fecond {pecies. 
The feed is faid to be fragrant in this, as well as in N. fativa. 
It is feldom preferved in gardens, though known here before 
the end of the 17th centifry. 
SeGion 2. Styles ufually ten 
5. N. bifpanica. lag Fennel- flower. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
753. Curt. Mag. t. 1265. men = nt. cae nt. ve. t. 112. 
(N. hifpanica, flore ee oO; 08s. orif, fe&t. 12. 
t. 18. f. 9.)—Styles aes fprendng the fences of the 
petals. Segments of the tufe.—This fplendid 
{pecies is a native of Spain an Barbary, as well as of the 
outhof France. It has for near 200 years saris cultivated, 
as a hardy annual, in our gar The whole plant is 
larger in all its parts than any we ae already aacabea: 3 the 
and fegments of the aves linear-lanceolate. 
Flowers large, of a rich purplifh blue, varying to a pale 
red, with dark or reddith flamens and flyles. ‘The number 
of the latter is, we believe, conftantly ten. » The 
ovate, an inch long, veiny, pale an 
e 
two divaricated, blunt, o 
6. N. ori ee Yalow F 
753: Curt. Inet are 
enfis ene 
Aleppo, at the end of the 17th century. 
annual, but being lefs ftriking in et agian than the laft, is 
not fo ‘commonly cultivated. In the gardens of Italy we 
rae often raga it, ae with only five ityles. The 
is much branched. Leaves narrow. Petals {patulate, 
ie. about half an inch ae yellow marked with a 
