The BRITISH HE R B A L. 
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XXVI. 
PRICKLY SAMPIRE. 
ECHINOPHORJ. 
nr HE flowers are difpofed in moderately large umbells, with little leaves at the divifions and iuh- 
T divifions of the branches. Each flower is compofed of five oblong, heart-falh.oned and bent 
peTals The cup is fmall, and is divided into five fegments. The feeds are rough, and the leaves 
°M:„t:rpirces1hf among .^.pntandrU n>o..,pia; the threads being Eve, and the ftyles two in 
"?his°rmhor does not, in his Genera Plantarum, allow it to be a diftindt genus, but makes it a kind 
of cnucA In his fpecies he makes it of a diftinft genus, but there joms a caucaln w,th ,t : m both 
erroneous There is but one known fpecies, properly dHlingu,fl«d, and that ts a native of Br.tam. 
Prickly Sampire. 
EchiuDphora. 
The root is long and thick, and furninied with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very broad and Ipreading ; 
they are divided into innumerable fmall, oblong 
fegments, in an irrcguLirly pinnated manner ; and 
thele are prickly at the end. 
The Ila'k is very thick, round, ftriated, up- 
ri^lr and divided into numerous branches. 
°I he leaves on thel'e refemble thofe from the 
root, and are in the fame manner prickly. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and they 
(land in umbells, terminating the tops of the 
branches. 
The feeds are oblong and rough. 
The root of this plant is of a very agreeable 
tafte, and flcfhy fubftance. 
It is common on our fea coafts, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Crithmmn inaritimum ffina- 
[am. 
GENUS XXVII. 
CORIANDER. 
CORlANViRUM. 
rrHE flowers are difpofed in fmall umbells. There are no leaves at the bafe of the firfl: divifion, 
■l hut three at each of the fubdivifions of the branches. Each flower is compofed of five petals ; 
■and they are of unequal fize, but all bent backward, and heart-fafliioned. The cup is fmall, and di- 
vided into five fegments. The feeds are hemifpherical. ^ ^ 
tons place? this among the pntand'rh <tigyma: the threads being five, and the ftyles two m 
each flower. 
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IVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Common Coriander. 
Corimdrum vulgnrs. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nithed with a few fibres. 
The firfi: leaves are divided in a pinnated man- 
ner, into many broad, ferrated fegments. 
The flalk is two feet high, and has many 
branches. 
The leaves on it are divided into Imall, nar- 
row fegments, and of a pale green : when bruifed 
they have a very ftrong and difagreeable fmell. 
The fiowcrs ftand at the tops of the branches i 
and are fmall and white, with a very faint blulh 
of red. 
The feeds are large, and of a pale brown. 
We have it in our weffern counties in dry places, 
and by road-fides ; perhaps native, perhaps from 
feeds cafually dropt. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Coriandrum majus. Others, 
Ccriandriim vitlgare. 
The feeds are cordial, and good againft flatu- 
lences ; and they are greatly recommended by 
their agreeable tafl;e. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Small Sweet Coriander. 
Corlandrinn minus. 
The root is very long, flender, and white. 
The firfl: leaves are fmall, and of a pale green ; 
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and they are deeply divided into (lender fegments. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak : they are 
about eight inches high ; and they lie fpread 
upon the ground. 
The leaves on thefc refemble thofe from the 
5 O root; 
