Scandix Pecten. Shepherds Needle, or 
Venus’s Comb. 
SCANDIX Lin. Gen. PL Pentandria Digynia. 
Corolla radiata. FruElus Tubulatus. Petala emarginata. Plofculi difci 
farpe mafculi. 
RaiiSyn.Gen.il. Umbelliferje IIerb-e. 
SCANDIX PeElen feminibus laevibus roflro Iongiflimo. Lin.SyJl. Veget, ed. 14. p. 287. Sp. Pl.p. 06S. 
MYRRHIS feminis cornu Iongiflimo. Haller hijl. n. 754. 
SCANDIX PeLlen. Scopoli FI. Cam. n. 349. 
SCANDIX femine roflxato vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 152. 
PECTEN VENERIS I. B. III. 2. 71. 
PECTEN VENERIS feu fcandix. Ger. emac.p. 1040. 
SCANDIX vulgaris, feu Peften Veneris. Park. 916. Rail Syn. p. 207. Shepherds Needle, or 
Venus’s Comb. Hudfon FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 123. Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 166. Jacquin 
FI. Aufir. t. 263. 
RADIX annua, fimplex, albida, paucis fibrillis in- <> ROOT annual, fimple, whitifh, furnifhed with few 
ftru£la. I fibres. 
<> 
CAULIS nunc fohtanus, nunc plures ex eadem ra- <i> STALK fometimes fingle, fometimes feveral from 
dice, ramofi, diffufi, villofi, femipedales, aut $ the fame root, branched, fpreading, villous, 
pedales, inferne purpurei, aut lineis pur- 0 half a foot or a foot in height, below purple* 
pureis ftriati, teretes, ad geniculos vix incraf- | or ftriped with purple lines, round, and 
I fcarcely thickened at the joints. 
FOLIA dauci inftar tenuiter divifa, ad bafin vagi- $ LEAVES finely divided like thofe of wild carrot 
nantia, laciniis linearibus, bifidis trifidifve, <» forming a fheath at bottom, fegments linear* 
acutis, ad lentem ranter ciliatis. Jig. 1. $ bifid or trifid, pointed, and, if viewed with 
<jj a microfcope, thinly edged with hairs. Jig. 1. 
INVOLUCRUM univerfde nullam. % INVOLUCRUM : general Involucrum wanting. 
UMBELLA : univerfalis plerumque biradiata. % UMBEL : general Umbel ufually compofed of two 
Q radii. 
INVOLUCRUM partiale magnum, pentaphyllum, 
foliolis nervofis, ciliatis, bifidis. 
FLORES Umbeliulce quinque ad feptem, 
fertiles, albze. 
plerumque 
INVOLUCRUM : partial Involucrum large, five- 
leaved, leaflets ribb'd, edged with hairs, and 
bifid. 
FLOWERS of the fmall Umbel from five to feven, 
for the raoft part fertile and white. 
COROLLA: Petala quinque, obverfe ovata, apice $ COROLLA: five Petals, inverfely ovate bent in 
inflexa, patentia, exteriore majore, Jig. 2. * at the tip, fpreading, the outerm’oft petai 
* larged, fig. 2. 
STAMINA : Filamenta quinque, alba; Anther* ♦ STAMINA five white Filaments ■, Anther * lirft 
primo virefcentes, demum nigricantes, fig. 3. » greenilh, finally blackilh, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen breviflime pedicellatum, f 
oblongum, hirfutulum ; Styli duo, fubu- | 
lati, ere£li, perfiftentes ; Stigmata fimpli- | 
cia, fig. 4, 5. I 
0 
PISTILLUM : Germen (landing on a very fhort 
footflalk, oblongandflightlyhirfute; Styles 
two, tapering, upright and permanent; 
OTIGMA.T A fimple, fig. 4, 5. 
SEMINA duo, fufca, hinc convexa, flriata, inde | 
plana hirfutula, in roflrum longiflimum ex- 
currentia, fig. 7. | 
NECTARIUM : ad bafin flylorum, purpurei coloris, ? 
fa* 6 ■ ’ x 
SEEDS two, brown, convex and flriated on one 
fide, and flat on the other, flightly hirfute, 
running out into a very long beak, fig. 7. 
NECTARY at the bare of the flyles, of a purple 
colour, fig. 6. r 
Common in corn fields, not only in Great-Britain, but in all the fouthern parts of Europe fometimes To 
plentiful, as to prove injurious to the farmer. “ Europe, lometimes lo 
Is particularly diflinguifhed 
of the feeds, as well as by the 
and bifid. 
u uu pur omer urnDemterous plants by the uncommon length of the 
Angularity of the leaves of the Involucellum, which are uncommonly I 
Flowers in June, and ripens its feed in July. 
Its feed-leaves, on their firft appearance above ground, are uncommonly long. 
