The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION II. F O 
Garden-Parfnep. 
Pajtinacka f&tiva. 
The root is very large, white, long, tender, and 
of a fweet tafte. 
The leaves which rife firft from it are large, 
elegantly and regularly divided in the pinnated ' 
mannci , and of a yellowifh green. 
The ftaliv is two yards high, firm, branciied, 
yeilowini, ilriated, and hollow. 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root ; but they arc fmaller. 
REIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers arc little and yellow, and the feeds 
are light and broad. 
It is wild in the Greek iflands ; where it ac- 
quires the full flature, but has not the true fweet- 
nefs ot the root unlcfs cultivated. 
It appears we had the feeds originally thence ; 
though we have now fo long cultivated the plant 
from thofe ripened in our gardens, that it has been 
forgotten. 
C. Bauhine calls it Paftiiiacha lalifclia fatha. 
All know the ufe of the roots in food ; and 
they are very nourifliing and wholcfome. 
GENUS III. 
t 0 R D r L I U M. 
■'J'HE flowers are difpofed in moderately large, irregular umbells, on divided and fubdivided 
footflalks i and have at t;he bottom a kind of cup, formed of feveral long, narrow leaves. Each 
flower is compofed of five regular petals, which are bent, and heart-fafhioned. The cup is fmall. 
The feeds are large and roundrfli, two grow together, and they have ferrated edges. 
Lin;i!i'us places this among the pcmandria digynia; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles two. 
I. Great Tordylium. 
Tordyl'um majus. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few flraggling fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and divided in the 
pinnated manner into numerous, fhorr, obtufe 
fegmtnts. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and five feet high : 
it is flriatcd, a little hairy, as arc a! fo the leaves, 
and is divided into feveral branches toward the 
top. 
Ti e leaves are placed alternately on it ; and 
they refemble thofe from the root, but that they 
are i mailer. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are large, flat, and broad, brown or 
redifli in the middle, and whitifli at the edges. 
We have it in dry pafliures, and under hedges, 
but not common, it flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sefdi Crctkum majus. 
Others, Tcrdylhtm niamniim. We have no Eng- 
lifli name for any plant of tliis genus. 
2. Small Tordylium. 
^crdyl'um minus. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and fupported on 
long footftalks : they are compofed each of a 
great number of fmall, fliort, and broad feg- 
ments, which have alio their feparate lonn- foot- 
ftalks. 
The ftalk is round, ftrlated, branched, and 
about a foot high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it ; and 
refemble thofe from the root, but that they are 
fmallcr. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are large, and very beautiful : they 
form together a kind of flat fruit, which has a 
whitifli curled edge. 
It is found in our fouthern counties, but is not 
common. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sefeli Cretknm minus. 
The feeds are carminative; and they work alfo 
by urine. 
GENUS IV. 
HOGS FENNEL. 
PEUCEDANUM. 
'J'HE flowers are difpofed in a very large umbel, upon divided and fubdivided branches ; and the 
Whole IS furrounded at its bafe by a number of narrow, crooked or twiftcd leaves. Each flower 
is compofed of five oblong, undivided petals ; and the cup to it is fmall, and divided by five 
dents at the edge. The feeds are oblong and ftriated. 
LinniEus places this among the fentmidria digynia ; the threads in the flower being three, and 
the ftjies two. ° 
Hogs 
