Scandix Pecten. Shepherds Needle, or 



Venus's Comb. 



SCANDIX Lin. Gen, PL Pentandria Digynia. 



Corolla radiata. Fruclus fubulatus. Petala emarginata. Flofculi difci 

 faepe raafculi. 



Rati Syn. Gen. 11. Umbelliferje Herb^e. 



SCANDIX Pecten feminibus leevibus roftro longiffimo. Lin.SyJl. Vegei. ed. 14. p. 287. Sp. Pip. 368. 



MYRRHIS feminis cornu longiffimo. Holler hifi. n. 754. 



SCANDIX Peden. Scopoli Fl Cam. n. 349. 



SCANDIX femine rofirato vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 152. 



PECTEN VENERIS I. B. III. 2. 71. 



PECTEN VENERIS feu fcandix. Ger. emac. p. 1040. 



SCANDIX vulgaris, feu Petten Veneris. Park. 916. Raii Syn. p. 207. Shepherds Needle, or 

 Venus's Comb. Hudfon FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 123. Lightfioot Fl.Scot. p. 166. Jacquin 

 FL Aujlr. t. 263. 



RADIX annua, fimplex, albida, paucis fibrillis in- | ROOT annual, fimple, whitifh, furniftied with few 

 flrufta. J fibres. 







CAULIS nunc folitarius, nunc plures ex eadem ra- A STALK fometimes fingle, fometimes feveral from 



dice, ramofi, diffufi, villofi, femipedales, aut | the fame root, branched, fpreading, villous, 



pedales, inferne purpurei, aut lineis pur- half a foot or a foot in height, below purple, 



pureis ftriati, teretes, ad geniculos vix incraf- | or ftriped with purple lines, round, and 



fati. <> fcarcely thickened at the joints. 



FOLIA dauci inftar tenuiter divifa, ad bafin vagi- $ LEAVES finely divided like thofe of wild carrot, 

 nantia, laciniis linearibus, bifidis trifidifve, jjj forming a (heath at bottom, fegments linear, 



acutis, ad lentem rariter ciliatis, Jig. 1. \ bifid or trifid, pointed, and, if viewed with 



A a microfcope, thinly edged with hairs, fig. 1. 



V 



A 



INVOLUCRUM universale nullum. <> IN VOLUCRUM : general lnvolucrum wanting. 



UMBELLA : univerfalis plerumque biradiata. % UMBEL : general Umbel ufually compofed of two 



A radii. 



A 



INVOLUCRUM partiale magnum, pentaphyllum, ^ INVOLUCRUM : partial lnvolucrum large, five- 

 foliolis nervoiis, ciliatis, bifidis. | leaved, leaflets ribb'd, edged with hairs, and 



bifid. 



A 

 FLORES Umbellulce quinque ad feptem, plerumque | FLOWERS of the fmall Umbel from five to feven, 

 fertiles, albas. <£ for the mod part fertile and white. 



A ^ 



COROLLA: Petala quinque, obverfe ovata, apice COROLLA: five Petals, inverfely ovate, bent in 

 inflexa, patentia, exteriore majore, fig. 2. $ at the tip, fpreading, the outermoft petal 



% largeft,^. 2. 



J A 

 STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, alba; Anthers J STAMINA five white Filaments ; Anther.e firft 

 primo virefcentes, demum nigricantes,j%". 3. a greenifli, finally blackilh, fig. 3. 



A 

 PISTILLUM: Germen breviflime pedicellatum, | PISTILLUM : Germen (landing on a very fhort 

 oblongum, hirfutulum ; Styli duo, fubu- <> footftalk, oblongand (lightly hirfute; Styles 



lati, erecti, perfiftentes; Stigmata fimpli- I two, tapering, upright and permanent; 



cia, fig. 4, 5. A Stigmata fimple, fig. 4, 5. 





 SEMINA duo, fufca, hinc convexa, ftriata, inde | SEEDS two, brown, convex and flriated on one 

 plana hirfutula, in roftrum longiflimum ex- <» fide, and flat on the other, {lightly hirfute, 



currentia, fig. 7. | running out into a very long beak, fig. 7. 



A 

 NECTARIUM : ad bafin ftylorum, purpurei colons, | NECTARY at the bafe of the ftyles, of a purple 

 fig. 6. t colour, fig. 6. 



Common in corn fields, not only in Great-Britain, but in all the fouthern parts of Europe, fometimes fo 

 plentiful, as to prove injurious to the farmer. 



Is particularly diflinguifhed from all our other umbelliferous plants by the uncommon length of the beak 

 of the feeds, as well as by the Angularity of the leaves of the Involucellum, which are uncommonly large 

 and bifid. 



Flowers in June, and ripens its feed in July. 



Its feed-leaves, on their firft appearance above ground, are uncommonly long. 



