PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Anthriscus. 387 
Common Coriander. Corn-fields, road sides, and on dunghills. 
A. June—July.* 
SCAN'DIX.f Bloss. radiated: central florets frequently bar¬ 
ren : Petals emarginate: Styles permanent : Fruit awl- 
shaped. 
S. pec'ten. (Stem rough : E.) seeds with a very long beak: leafits 
with many fine divisions. 
jacq. Austr. 263— Curt. 249—( E. Bot. 1397. E.)— FI. Dan. 844— Riv . 
Pent. 3S. Scandix — Dod. 701. 2— Lob. Obs. 419. 2, and Ic. 726. 2— Ger. 
Em. 1040. I—Park. 916. 1—J. B. iii. 6. 71. 2-H. Ox. ix. 11, row 2. 1 
—Matth. 527—Ger. 884. 
From eight to eighteen inches high. Involucrum none. Umbel of two or 
three spokes. Involucellum leafits cloven. Umbellules of seven or eight 
florets. Fruit finely serrated at the edges. ( Beak more than an inch 
long, angular, scabrous. E.) The glandular receptacle crowning the 
germen of a fine purple. By carefully dividing the germen after it has 
shot out an inch or more in length, a tube continued from the styles down 
to the seeds may be discovered. Petals white, acute, indexed. ( Stems 
rather spreading. Leaves triply winged; leafits with many divisions; 
segments alternate, strap-shaped, nearly smooth. E.) 
Common Shepherd's Needle. Venus's Comb. (Beggar’s Needle. 
Crow Needles. Welsh: Creithig Nodwydd y bugail. S. Pecten-Vene¬ 
ris. Linn. Curt. Sm. Hook. Willd. &c. S. Pecten. With. Grev. Corn¬ 
fields.) A. June—July4 
(ANTHRIS'CUS. Beak shorter than the seeds, glabrous : 
Fruit ovate, hispid : Cal. none : Pet. equal, inversely 
heart-shaped: FI. recept. slightly bordered. E.) 
(A. vulga'ris. Fruit ovate, twice the length of the beak: leaves 
triply pinnate, pinnatifid. E.) 
Curt. — Jacq. Austr. 154—( E. Bot. 818. E.)— Riv. Pent. 35. Cauc. fol. 
Cerefol. — FI. Dan. 863— Pet. 27. 12— H. Ox. ix. 10. row 1. 2— J. B. iii. b. 
182. 1. 
Leaves pale green, triply winged, segments wing-cleft, crowded with white, 
stiff, upright hairs. Stem , (about two feet high, swollen beneath each 
joint, E.) branches and fruit-stalk quite smooth; sheaths of the leaves 
* The leaves have a very strong and disagreeable scent. The seeds are grateful to the 
taste, and, incrusted with sugar, are sold by the confectioners under the name of Coriander 
Comfits. The Edinburgh College use them as correctors in the Bitter Infusion and the 
preparations of Senna, nothing so effectually covering the unpleasant taste of that medicine. 
They have been considered as suspicious, if not deleterious, but I have known six drams of 
them taken at once without any remarkable effect. (The plant is cultivated on the stiff lands in 
Essex. The seeds are employed by rectifiers of spirits for cordial drinks ; Salisbury : and by 
brewers both in England and Holland, to flavour their strongest beer. In some countries 
the leaves are used in soups and salads. E.) 
+ (An ancient Latin name, cntai/S/f of the Greeks, derived by De Theis from axeco to 
prick; alluding to the needle points of the seeds, as exemplified in Shepherd 1 s Needle. E.) 
$ (A troublesome weed in barley-crops; no dressing can separate the seeds. They are 
seldom seen in samples of wheat, being a little too short of growth. Holdich. E.) 
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