The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Hogs FenneJ. 
Peucedanum mlgare. 
The root is long and thick, and at the top is 
ufually covered with a fhaggy matter, formed of 
the ribs of decayed ftalks : it is black on the out- 
fide, green within, and, when cut, yields a yel- 
low juice of a ftrong unpleafant fmell. 
The firft: leaves are placed on long footftalks : 
they are large, and they are divided and fubdi- 
vided by threes into a multitude of long, narrow 
fegments. 
The [talk is a yard high, ftriated, and branclied; 
and the leave-, are placed irregularly on it, and are 
like thofe from the root. 
The flowers are fmall and ycliow. 
It is common by the Thames fide in Kent and 
Eflex, and elfev/here. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Peucedanum Ge-rmnmcum. 
Others, Peucedanum vulgare. 
It is an unpleafant, but a very valuable medi- 
cine. 
A fyrup made of the juice of the root with ho- 
ney is excellent in althmatick cafes. 
A decoLtion of it operates by urine, and is good 
againfl obflrudlions of the vifcera. 
It is alfo good outwardly in headachs. 
GENUS V. 
SHEPHERDS NEEDLE. 
S C A N D I X. 
'yHE flowers are difpofcd in fmall umbclls upon long divided flialks , which have no general cup, 
but a few oblong !e:ives to the fubdivifions. Each flower is compofed of five unequal petals, of 
a heart-fadiioned Shape. The cup is very minute. The feeds are long, and fliarp-pointed : two 
grow together ; and each is rounded and ftriated on the outfide, and fmooth and flat within. 
Linnaius places this among the pentandria digyma ; the threads being five, and the fl-yles two. 
-DIVISION I. 
Shepherds Needle. 
Scandix i-tikaris. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few flight fibres. 
The leaves are fmall, and fupported on fliort 
footftalks : they are very finely divided ; and their 
colour is a very dark green. 
The flalks are numerous, green, branched, 
'and a foot hiah. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and re- 
femble thofe from the root ; but they are inialler. 
The fiowers are moderately large and white. 
The feeds are long and flender. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
Augyft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scandix femine rojlrato vid- 
Zdris. Others, PeBen Feneris. 
Its virtues are not known. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Small Shepherds Nettle. 
Scandix minor. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furniflied 
with a few fibres. 
The leaves are divided into numerous and 
very fmall fegments ; and they have a pleafant 
fmell. 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, ftriated, 
and a foot high. 
The leaves are placed alternately on thefe, and 
their footftalks furround the ftalk at the bafe : 
they are like thofe from the root, but fmaller. 
The flowers ftand at the extremitie. of the 
branches in little umbclls ; and they are fmali 
and white. 
The feeds are long, and very (lender. 
It is common in the Greek ifljnds, where they 
eat the young leaves in fallads. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scandix Crelica minor. 
GENUS VI. 
C H E R V I L L. 
CHjEROPHTLLUM. 
npHE flowers are difpofed in broad, fpreading umbclls, on divided and fubdivided branches ; and 
tlicy have no cup to furround their bale at the (talk, but fome long leaves under the fubdi- 
vifions. Each flower is compofed of five bent and hcart-fafliioned petals. The cup is very minute ; 
and the feeds are oblong, fiender, and pointed at the top, rounded on the outfide, and flat 
within. 
Linnffius places this among the fentarJria di^ynia ; the threads being five, and the fl:yles two in 
each flower. 
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