Order II. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
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9668 The only species 
S669 Stem striated. Root fusiform divided, Rays of umbel hispid 
3670 Leaves 3-parted thrice sinuated. A doubtful species, scarcely distinct firom the next 
3671 Stem furrowed, Common involucre many-leaved. Leaflets wedge-shaped cut 
3672 Stem furrowed with acute angles, Comm invol. O, Leaflets lanceolate cut at the end with a callous point 
3673 Stem rounded striated. Comm. invol. O, Sheaths of leaves loose, Leaflets filiform linear 
3674 Stem rounded striated. Comm. invol. O, Leaflets trifid linear mucronaie 
367.'5 Stem striated, Lvs. pinnat. subcor. Leaflets ov.-obl. at base cartil. serrate. Upper sheaths enlarged leafless 
3676 Stem woody naked beneath, Lov;er leaves bipinnate, Pinnse lanceolate entire and cut serrate 
3677 Leaves doubly pinnate ovate lane, serrated with the odd leaflet lobed 
3678 Leaflets equal ovate lanceolate serrated 
Sh79 Leaflets lanceolate serrated decurrent 
3680 Leaves very much divaricating. Leaflets ovate serrate, Stem with the pedundea whorled 
3681 Outer pair of Jeaflets united together ; terminal leaflet stalked 
3682 Leaflets equal ovate cut serrate 
3683 Leaves multiple, Leaflets cut upwards 
368'1 Leaves biternate 
3685 Leaves many times pinnate. Leaflets pinnately cut 
3686 Leaves bipinnate. Leaflets confluent cut entire 
3387 Leaves decompound cut : cauline ternate lanceolate entire. Furrows of seed obsolete 
3688 Lvs. supra-decompound. Leaflets pinnatifid, Seg. linear mucronate, Comm. invol. scarcely any deciduous 
S&iO Lvs. supra-decom. Leaflets wedge-shaped cut smooth, Comm. invol. 2-leav. leafy, Ribs of seed mem. smooth 
3690 Invol. of the 1st umbel scarcely any : of the lateral umbels membranous at base, Rays branched 
3691 Leaves pinnate. Lower leaflets acute with a smaller one 
3692 Leaves biternate j radical decompound, Leaflets lin. lane, entire 
3693 Leaves pinnate. Leaflets pinnatifid 
3694 Leaves cordate 
3696 Seeds scaly 
3696 Leaflets linear very long simole 
3697 Leaflets linear subiilate rounced. Comm. invol. O 
3698 Leaves supra-decompound. Leaflets lane, linear flat 
3699 Leaves cut, Segm. 3-toothed unequal shining 
3700 Pinnas of leaves naked at base. Leaflets setaceous 
3701 Leaflets with appendages. Umbels nearly sessile 
3702 L«aves supra-decompound many cut acute decurrent. First umbel sessile 
3703 Leaves obliquely cordate toothed. Teeth mucronate. Wings of seeds crisp 
3704 Leaflets 3-lobed cut 
3705 Leaves obtuse ovate at base lobed 
3706 Leaflets wedge-shaped trifid, Segm. oblong bluntish with a callous point at end 
3707 Stem naked 3-cornered, Branches angular, Leaflets obi. toothed crenate. Involucres many-leaved short 
3708 Leaflets lanceolate obtuse mucronate entire sessile 
3709 Leaves lanceolate entire : the outer joined together 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
travelled into the Holy Land, &c. and died at Smyrna in 1752. Author of Travels in Palestine. A remarkable 
S^nys, supposed with some reason to be a monstrous alteration of a species of Tordylium 
667 ^rtedia So named by Linnsus, in honor of Peter Artedi, a Swedish naturalist, one of the first who 
attempted to divide umbelliferous plants into genera. His method was followed by Linneeus, and was, perhaps 
defective than many of those which have been proposed in modern days. He died in 1735 
668 ferula. From ferire, to strike. The stalks were used as a rod for children, because they made more 
noise than harm F. communis is one of the tallest of herbaceous plants. The flower-stalk soon becomes 
dry after the seeds ripen, and then the Sicilians take out the pith and use it for tinder. It is very abundant in 
by buffaloes. Gerarde says, it grew to the height of fifteen feet in his garden in 
MoiDom Ihe drug asafcetida is obtained from one or more species of this genus natives of Persia : and one 
f ^^^S^-^'u^,! introduced to our gardens in 1782, is now lost. The drug is the inspissated 
juice ot the root, which being bared of earth and cut across at the top, it oozes out, and when dry, is scraped off 
UkeTea^ef and^habft'^^^^"^^ °^ ^'^^ ^'^^^^^ '^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^'^ flowers and hemlock- 
669. Lasermtium. The Latin name of the Silphion of the Greeks. D'Herbelot says, that the natives of 
p 49^ P^^"*^ ^^rPh whence the Latins formed lac serpitium and Laserpitium. {Bibl. Or, 
