SWEET GRASS. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
An umbel of many spokes, supporting a bunch of flowers, 
of which those near the centre have five equal petals, 
while those in the circumference are divided into five un- 
equal petals, the outer divisions being the largest. 
Seeds two, egg-shaped and compressed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heracleum panaces. H. foliis pinnatis; foliolis quinis; in- 
termediis sessilibus, floribus radiatis. 
Linn. Spec. Plant. Willd. 1 . p. 1423. 
no. 6 . 
Leaves pinnated; leaflets in fives; flowers 
radiated. 
H. foliis pinnatifidis. Gmel. Silir. 1 . 
p. 213. 
Sweet-grass. . . . Penn. Arct. Zool. (introduct.) p. 117 . 
This species of Heracleum deserves to be noticed 
on account of the use which one of our rude 
northern nations, the Kamtschatkans, make of it. 
These people regard the plant as one of the most 
precious that their country affords : it formerly en- 
