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feed. However, if you attend to a 
few obvious particulars, which I (hall 
point out, you will eafily recognife 
the plant, if you fhould ever meet 
with it in any other part of the king- 
dom. Firfl, you obferve, it is an um- 
belliferous plant, neither tall nor 
very flout j that the umbel confiding 
of many radii has a confiderable con- 
vexity, and that it is rather grey than 
white. The flem, you fee, is angu- 
lar and unequally furrowed. The 
leaves are bipinnated fomewhat re- 
fembling thofe of parfley, except that 
theptmtz are feflile, and that the bafe 
of every leaf fheaths either the flem 
or flalk which fupports the umbel. 
To thefe obfervations you may add, 
that the root is fliaped like a carrot, 
though not fo regularly flraight; that 
it is acrid but fomewhat aromatic, 
and that it is bearded or fringed at 
the top, with a tuft of leaves like 
hair vertice barbato> in the language 
of Linnaeus. There is a good en- 
graving of this plant in Relhan. The 
Englifh name is, Mountain Stone- 
parfley* given it, I fuppofe, by Ray, 
who 
