PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Cnidium. 
373 
Ray. Keswick. Hutton. (Between St. Alban’s and Stoney-Stratford. 
Hudson. P. Aug.—Sept. 
PEUCED'ANUM.* * ( Flowers of the disk abortive : E.) Involu- 
crums very short: Fruit elliptical, slightly ridged, com¬ 
pressed, bordered. 
P. officina'le. Leaves five times divided into three: leaflets thread- 
strap-shaped: (bracteas strap-shaped, nearly thread-shaped. E.) 
Riv. Pent. 11. Peuced. —( E . Bot. 1767. E.)— Fuchs. 599— J. B. iii. 6. 36.1 
— Dod. 317— Lob. Obs. 453. and Ic. i. 781— Ger. Em. 1054. 1— Park. 
880. 2—Ger. 896. 1—Trag. 881. 
( Herb smooth, slender, three or four feet high. Root spindle-shaped, resi¬ 
nous, smelling like sulphur. Stem upright, cylindrical, scored, branched, 
leafy. Umbels three or four inches broad. Calyx-teeth sharp-pointed, 
bent inwards. Petals equal, incurved. Styles reflexed. FI. Brit. E.) 
Petals yellowish. 
Sea Sulphur-wort. Hog’s Fennel. Salt marshes, rare. Shoreham, 
Sussex. Walton, near Harwich, Essex; and near Feversham, by the 
river side. R. Syn. (On a cliff by the sea at Hearn, six miles from 
Whitstable. Mr. Crow, in Eng. FI. Never found at Yarmouth nor 
Cley: (Enanthe pimpinelloides was mistaken for it by Hudson. Mr. 
Woodward. E.) P. June—July.f 
(CNI'DIUM. Fr. ovate, acute, with equidistant, very sharp, 
ribs; interstices deep, concave; juncture contracted: 
Cal. none : Pet. equal, obovate, or inversely heart- 
shaped : Styles hemispherical at the base ; subsequently 
elongated, spreading, cylindrical: FI. Recept. annular, 
thin, undulated, erect; afterwards depressed: FI. imper¬ 
fectly separated, nearly regular. Sm. E.) 
(C. silau's. Leafits deeply pinnatifid; their segments opposite, de¬ 
current ; general bracteas one or two. 
Jacq. Austr. 15— {E. Bot. 2142. E.)— Crantz. Umb. 6. and Austr. iii. 6— 
Riv. Pent. 58. Seseli Prat. — Ger. 1047* 1— Park. 904. 4— J. B. iii. 2. 171 
—Ger. 877 —Dod. 310. 2—Lob. Obs. 425. 4; and Ic. i. 738. 1— Ger. Em. 
1048. 2—Park. 904. 3. 
{Herb smooth, dark green, one to two feet high. Root spindle-shaped 
Umbellules small, distant. E.) Lower-leaves trebly compound; the 
little leaves cloven into two or three spear-shaped segments. Involucrum 
one or two little leaves. Involucellum twelve spear-shaped leaves, deep 
purple or black at the ends. Umbel of about seven s pokes. Umbellules 
twelve to twenty, and upwards. All the Jlorets generally fertile, but 
* (From 7revxe f the Pine tree, and Sai/op, dry; from its emitting a strong ungrateful 
odour. E.) 
*J* The roots have a strong fetid smell, and an acrid, bitterish, unctuous taste. 
Wounded in the spring they yield a considerable quantity of yellow juice, which dries into 
a gummy resin, and retains the strong scent of the root. Its virtues have not yet been 
ascertained with precision ; (and the trial should be made with caution, as its qualities pro¬ 
mise to be far from insignificant. The expressed juice is said to have been used medi¬ 
cinally by the ancients. E.) 
