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Show The Hijlory of P L A N T S. or more, in height: the umbels are moderately large; the flowers are white, with a call: of reddi!b. It is a native of many of the northern parts of Europe, and is cultivated in many other places, for the feed. C. Bauhine calls it, Cuminum pratenfe carvi officinarum; others fimply, Carvi. The feeds are warm, carminative, and excellent in flatus's, and other complaints rifing from wind: P I M P I N E L L A. T HE general umbel is compofed of feveral radii, and the partial ones of yet more numerous ; neither has any involucra. The general corolla is uniform ; the perianthium is fcarce vifible : the flowers confift each of five inflexo-cordate and nearly equal petals : the fiamina are five fimple filaments, longer than the corolla: the ~ntherre are roundi{h; the germen fiands under the cup : the fiyles are two, and very lhort; the fiigmata are obtufe; the fruit is naked, of an oblong, oval figure, and feparable into two parts: the feeds are two, oblong, narrower toward the point, convex ftriated on one fide, and plane on the other. ' I. Pimpinella foliis Jubrotutzdis. The roundijh-leaved Pimpinella. l10urnet ~axtfrage. The root is white, very long, but flender, and acrid. The radical leaves a ·c fimply pinnated ; they confift of two feries of pinnre, of a roundii11 figure, and dufky green colour, crenated round the edges, and arranged on the two fides of a pedicle, termipated by a fingle pinna. The fiall{ is flender, round, lhiated, very ramofe, and two feet high : the leaves on it are few, and thofe divided into five long fegments · the flowers are white ; the umbels moderately large. · It is common in dry pafiures. C. Bauhine calls it, Pimpinella Saxifraga major altera ; Tournefort, Tragofelinum alterum majus. What the fame authors and others defcribe .alfo, as.anoth.er fpecies, u.nder the .name of Pimpinella Saxifraga minor, and Tragofehnum mmus, IS only a vanety of this. The root is ufed as a diuretic and aperient, and is an ingredient in fome compofitions. 2. Pimpinella Joliis petiolatis ovatis. The Pimpinella, with oval leaves on pedicles. <5rrnt llDttr::: net ~aJtfragr. The root is oblong, white, thick, and acrid. The leaves are fimply 'pinnated; each c?nfifis of a double row of oblong, oval, leffer leaves, ferrated round the edges, and affixed, by moderately long pedicles, to a middle rib terminated by a fingle one. The fialk is round, hollow, firiated, and three feet high : the umbels are large ; the flowers white. It is wild in England in many places. C. Bauhine calls it, Saxifraga major umbella candida. AN IS U M. THE gen~ral umbel is thin a~d pl~no-patent; the partial ones are fimilar; neither. . has any mvolucra : the penanthta are fcarce ob!ervable : the general corolla is umform ; the fingle flowers confift each of five oval, inflex petals : the fiamina are five fimple filaments; the anthera: are roundifh; the germen fiands under the cup: the fiyles are two, and reflex; the fbgmata are obtufe : the fruit is naked of a roundifh fig?re, firiated, and feparable into two parts : the feeds are two, rot;ndi01, convex, ftnuted on one fide, and plane on the other. I. Anijittn Joliis radicalibus fimplicibus. Anf!um, with the radical leaves fimple. The root is oblong, flender? and ~hite; the radical leaves iland on long pedicles, and are fimple, fmall, roundt!b, fohola, crenated at the extremities fmooth of a pale green, and of a ihong fmell : the fialk is round hairy firiated 'ramofe ~nd [o . ' , ' ' weak, The l!ijlory of P L A N T S. 349 weak, that it fcarce is able to fuppport itfelf ereCt ; the leaves on it are narrower and more deeply cut in all the edges : the umbels are very large ; the flowers white. ' It is a native of Egypt and Syria, and is fown in Malta for the feed. C. Bauhine calls ,it, Ani fum herbariis ; the Maltefe call it, Sw~et Cummin. The feeds are an ex-cellent carminative. · 2. Anifum foliis radicalibus pinnatis. The Anife? with the radical/eaves pinnated:. Jro~etgn 10araer. The root is oblong, fingle, white, and acrid ; the leaves are moderately large and pinnated; they fiand on long pedicles, and the pinnre are fmooth, rounded, or oval, and themfelves alfo fupported on long pedicles: the fialk is round, firm, .flender, ramofe, and firiated, two feet high, and reddiih at the bottom : the leaves on it are compofed of longer, narrower, and more ferrated pinnre than the radical ones ; the umbels hang down, before the flowers are ready to open, but then they become eretl ; the flowers are fmall and white. It is a native of Germany. C. Bauhine ca1ls it, Apium peregrinum foliis fubrotun-dis ; Cluiius, Selinum peregrinum. APIUM. T HE general umbel is· compofed of a great many rays; the partial umbel of fewer; they have neither of them any involucra. The perianthium is fcarce vifible : the general corolla is uniform : the fingle flowers confiil: each of five roundi!b~ inflex, equal petals : the fl:amina are five fimple filaments; the antherre are roundia1 : the germen il:ands under the tup; the fiyles are two, and reflex; the ftigmata are ob-· tufe. The fruit is naked, oval, ftriated, and divifible into two parts: the feeds are two, oval, ftriated on one fide, and plane on the other; •) I ,IJJ I. Apium Joliis caulinis linearibus. The Apium, with the leaves on the .ftalh linear. The root is oblong, large, and white. The radical leaves are placed on long pedicles ; they are formed of moderately large, broad, and in,dented pinnre, of a bright green, and fmooth : the ilalk is ftriated, round, ramofe, and jointed ; it's leaves are greatly different from thofe of the root, they are narrow and linear ; the umbels are fmall ; the flowers white, and very fmall. It is a native of Italy and Spain ; it is in all our gardens. C. Bauhine calls it, Api-um hortenfe petrofelinum vulgo. 2. Apium foliis caulinis cuneiformibus. 'The Apium, with the leaves of the .ftalh cuneiform. The root is long, thick, white, and fibrated: the radical leaves fiand on pedicles of four or five inches long, hollowed, firiated, and reddifh; they are compofed of a number of pinnre, broad, large, divided each into three principal fegments, and ferrated round the edges : the fl:alk is round, thick, deeply firiated, and hollow ; the leaves on it fiand on i11ort pedicles, and are cuneiform ; at the top of the branches ftand fmall umbels ; the flowers are [mall and white. , It is common in our ditches. C. Bauhine cal1s it, Apium paluftre; others, Eleofelinum and Paludopium. This plant, by culture, becomes what we call Celeri, the bleached fialks of which are eaten at our tables. 1£ G 0 P 0 D I U M .. , T HE general umbel is multiple and convex; the partial umbels are multiple and plane ; neither has any involucra : the proper p~rianthium is fcarce obfervable : the general corolla is uniform ; the fingle flowers confifi each of five oval, concave, and nearly equal petals: the fiamina are five fimple filaments; the antherre are roundi(h : the germen fiands under the cup ; the ftyles are two, fimple, erect, 4 U and |