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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Sweet Fennel. 
Ffsniculum duke. 
The root Is long, thick, and white. 
The firfl leaves are of a pale green % and they 
are divided, \'\k<t \.\\ok oi com7)wn fennel., into nu- 
merous, fine fegments ; but they are not fo large. 
The ilalk is round, upright, branched, and a 
yard high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it ; and 
they refemble thofe from the root : they are of the 
fame fine divifion, and the fame faint green. 
The flowers are larger than thofe of common fen- 
neU and of a paler yellow. 
The feeds are large, pale-coloured, and of a 
fweet tafle. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fwniculum dulcet a name 
copied by all other writers. 
Its virtues are the fame with thofe of common 
fennel; but the feeds are milder or lefs acrid: 
they are therefore more ufed in medicine. 
GENUS XXIII. 
ROCK-PARSLEY. 
S E L 1 'N II M. 
THE flowers are difpofcd in moderately large umbells, on divided and fubdivided branches. 
Each flower is compofed of five oblong, narrow petals ; and they are bent downwards. The 
cup is fmall, and divided into five parts ; and the f«a. are or an oval lUiui. 
Einn^us places this among the fentandria digynia ; the threads m the flower bemg five, and the 
ftyles two. . 
Of this genus there is but one known fpeCies, and that is a native of Britain. 
Rock-Parfley. 
Selinum. 
The root is long and (lender, and hung about 
with feveral fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmall, and of a pale green ; 
and they are in a very elegant manner divided into 
narrow, and pointed fegments. 
The flaik is fl;riated, round, upright, very 
much branched, and about a foot high. 
The leaves on it are placed irregularly i and 
they arc, like the others, divided into fmall feg- 
ments. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches ; 
fo that the plant appears covered with them : they 
are fmall and yellow. 
The feeds are brown. 
We have it in our weftern counties very com- 
mon. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pucedantm minus, Clufius, 
SeHnum mofilavim pumiUum. 
GENUS XXIV. 
CARROT. 
D A U C U S. 
THE flowers are difpofed in large umbells, which grow hollow when they are fallen ; and 
there are circles of fmall leaves, both under the whole umbel, and at the bafes of its fub- 
divifions. Each flower is compofed of five petals, of irregular fize ; the outer ones being larger than 
the inner; and all of them are heart-fafliioned, and turned back. The cup is very minute. The 
feeds are hairy. 
Linnrcus places this among the penlaadyia digynia ; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
flyles two. 
!. Wild Carrot, called Mountain Stone-Parfley. 
Dauctis apium petraum album di£lus. 
The root is long and thick, of an acrid tafle, 
but not very difagreeable \ of a tender fubftance, 
white, and hung with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and of a deep green ; 
and they are compofed ot numerous, broad, fer- 
rated pinnjE. 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and to- 
ward the top parted into many branches. 
The leaves on it are divided into narrower feg. 
1 The 
ments tnan tnoic rrom tne rooc ; ana tney are 
of a paler colour. 
The flowers are fmall and white. The feeds 
are brown and hairy, and fl:and in a hollow tufc. 
It is found on dry, hilly ground, but no: 
common. 
J. Bauhine calls it Apium petraum f^ve monla- 
num album. C. Bauhine, Daucus Gpii folio. 
2. Common Carrot. 
Daucus vulgaris. 
The root oF the carrot is well known. 
