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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Candy Daucus. 
Baucus Cretkus. 
The root is long, fmall, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The ftaiks are weak, flcnder, ftriated, and a 
foot high. 
The leaves at the bottom are divided into nu- 
merous, narrow fegments i and they are of a 
greyiOi green colour . thofe on the upper part 
of the plant are cut into longer and yet Ileii- 
derer parts^ 
The flowers are fmall and white 1, and the feeds 
are oblcjng, rough, and brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Bnucus Alpiniis multifido 
folio. Others, Daucus Crelenfis. 
The feeds are carmiaative and diuretlck. 
GENUS XVII. 
UMBELLIFEROUS PELLITORY. 
PTRETHRU M U M B E L L 1 F E RU M. 
TEIE flowers are placed in umbells on fubdivided branches j and there are no leaves, either at the 
bafes of the principal or lefTer divifions. The cup is very minute. Each flower is compofed of 
iive oblong petals. The feeds are oblong, and lightly fliriated. 
Linnxus places this among the pensandria with the preceding. 
Umbelliferous Pellilory. 
Pyrethrum umbelUferum. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a few 
fibies : it is of a brown colour, and a very acrid 
tafte. 
The fl:alk is flriated, and three feet high; di- 
vided into numerous branches, and of a pale 
green. 
The leaves are very beautifully formed of mi- 
nute, oblong fegments ; and are of a fhining 
green. 
The flowers are fmall and white, and the feeds 
are brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and fome of the 
warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in Jaly, 
C. Bauhine calls \t Pyrethruin umbelUferum : a 
name molt others have copied. 
The root held in tlie mouth is good againft the 
coothach, as that of the right pcllitory of Spain. 
GENUS xviir, 
BLACKMASTERWORT. 
A S r R A N r I A. 
THE flowers arc placed in fmall umbells, upon a few principal branches, with numerous fubdi- 
vifions; and at the bafe of each fl:and feveral little leaves. The cup is divided by five dents 
at the edge. Each flower is compofed ot five oblong petals, fplit at the top. 7'he feeds are oblong, 
and covered with a kind of cruft. 
LinnTus places this with the refl of the umbelliferous plants among the pentandria^ the flowers 
in all having five filaments. 
Black Mafterwort. 
Afirantia. 
The root is black, and compofed of numerous 
fibres. 
The firll leaves are placed on long, redifli 
footflalks ; and are divided to the bafe into five 
parts; thefe are oblong, ferrated, fiiarp-pointed; 
and of a deep green on the upper fide, and a yel- 
lowifli green underneath. 
The Ifalks arc numerous, flriated, weak, and 
two feet high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are fmaller, and have fewer di- 
vifions, and thofe placed lefs regularly. 
The flowers terminate the branches in fmall 
umbells ; which are furrounded at the bafe by a 
peculiar kind of leaves, forming a general cup ; 
and thefe are redifh withini 
The flowers themfelves are of a greenifli white. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
The whole plant has an aromacick tafle. 
It is a native of the mountainous parts of Eu- 
rope, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Helleborus niger fanictiU foli» 
major. Others, AJirantia nigra^ 
The root is a violent purge. 
7he END of ihc TWENTY - FOURTH CLASS. 
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