PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Pastinaca. 391 
pressed, with a broad, membranous border, and three 
ridges on the back. 
I. ostru'thium. (Leaves bi-ternate, serrated. E.) 
{E. Bot. 1380. E.)— Woodv. 35— Riv. Pent. 7. Imperatoria. — Fuchs. 763— 
J. B. iii. 2. 137 —Blackw. 279—Park. 94 2—Trag. 43 3—Matth. 775— 
Louie, i. 228. 2— Clus. ii. 194. 2— Bod. 320. 1— Lob. Ohs. 398. 1, and Ic. 
700. 1— Ger. Em. 1001. 1— H. Ox. ix. 4. row 1. 1— Garid. 55. 
{Root tuberous, acrid, thick as a man’s thumb. Stem upright, a foot and a 
half high, undivided, striated, smooth. Leaves double-three-fold, smooth, 
sharply serrated and laciniate. Umbels terminal, few, level. UmheU 
lutes many-flowered. Involucellum a few bristle-like leafits. Flowers 
white or reddish, regular. FI. Brit. E.) 
Masterwort. Found by Lightfoot on the banks of the Clyde, particu¬ 
larly about Arden Caple. Isle of Bute, near Mount Stewart. Near 
Bridgnorth, but in a situation that would allow of its being an outcast of 
a garden. (At Newbiggen near Middleton, and in Teesdale Forest. 
Bev. J. Harriman. Banks of Dardree Burn, between Dardree Shield and 
the Wear. Mr. Winch. Cotterston, near Barnard Castle. Mr. Robson. 
In a meadow immediately after crossing the lane on the moors between 
Brough and Middleton, certainly wild. Mr. Brunton. Banks of the 
Tweed, near the old castle of Drummelzier. E.) P. June.* 
PASTINA'CA.i- Petals rolled inwards, entire: Seeds ellip¬ 
tical, compressed, leaf-like, smooth, border thin, narrow. 
P. sati'va. Leaves simply winged, (downy underneath. E.) 
Var. 1. Wild. 
{E. Bot. 556. E.)— Kniph. 6— Riv. Pent. 6. Patinaca. — Fuchs. 753— J. B. 
iii. 2. 149— H. Ox. ix. 16. 2—Matth. 776—Ger. 856. 
{Root spindle-shaped, white, aromatic, mucilaginous and sweet, with a 
degree of acrimony, which it loses by cultivation. Sm. E.) Stem three 
or four feet high, membranous at the angles. Involucrum none. Umbel 
spokes six to twelve. Involucellum sometimes of one leaf. Umbellules 
spokes short, numerous. Flowers yellow, (small, some of the innermost 
not unfrequently abortive. Sm. Fruit large. E.) 
Wild Parsnep. (Irish: Cuirridin ban. E.) Borders of ploughed fields, 
in limestone: and marl. Stokes. (On chalky soil in Norfolk and Suf¬ 
folk Mr. Woodward. E.) Frequent in Gloucestershire. 
B. June—July. 
Var. 2. Leaves broader. 
Fuchs. 751— Dod. 680. 2—Ger. Em. 1025— J. B. iii. 2. 150—Ger. 870. 2— 
Matth. 747— Ger. 870. 1 —Dod. 680. 1— Lob. Obs. 407. 2, and Ic. i. 709. 
2— Ger. Em. 1025. 1 —Park. 944. 
* Root warm and aromatic; a sudorific, diuretic, and scialagogue ; recommended in 
dropsy, debilities of the stomach and bowels; and an infusion of it in wine is said to have 
cured quartans that have resisted the bark. Dr. Stokes. When chewed, it excites a copious 
flow of saliva, occasioning a warm and not disagreeable sensation in the gums, and fre¬ 
quently curing the rheumatic tooth-ache. (It is cultivated for the sake of the root, which 
should be gathered in winter, and strongly infused in wine. E.) 
(Probably derived from pastus , proper to feed upon : “ pastes radices E.) 
