S C A N D I X odorata.
Sweet Cicely. Great Chervil
P K X 'f A N D R-IA Digynia.
G e n . C har. Gen. Involucrum none. Flowers radiant.
Petals notched. Fruit awl-fhaped. Central
flowers often male.
Spec. Char. Seeds furrowed, angular, fmooth.
Syn . Scandix odorata. Linn. Sp. PI. 368. Sm.
FI. Brit. 323. Hudf. 124. With. 306. Hull. 63.
Sibth. 100. Lightf. 1 66.
S e N T from the North of England by Mr. Robfon, flowering
in May. There has been much controverfy whether this
plant fhould be reckoned a native or not. It is found abundantly
in Weftmoreland, Cumberland, &c. as well as in the
Lowlands of Scotland, and in fome parts of Wales, but always
in orchards or paftures near houfes, its aromatic feeds making
a part of the humble luxuries and Ample medicines of the
mountain cottager. The Rev. Mr. Wood thinks it certainly
wild near Leeds; but the mod ancient and therefore beft
authority on this fubjebt is Dr. Richardfon, the friend of Ray,
a fpecimen from whom is in Buddie’s herbarium, with an in-
fcription aflerting the Sweet Cicely to be truly wild in meadows
betwixt Morton and Rufhforth in the Weft Riding of
Yorklhire.
The root we believe is perennial, fpindle-fliaped, and aromatic.
Stems a foot and half high, branched,^ furrowed.
Leaves fefllle, pale-green, hairy, triply winged, and pinnatifid.
Umbels terminal, ereét, of many rays. The partial involucra
lanceolate, deflexed, membranous, pale. Flowers white; the
central ones moft numerous, and having abortive germens.
Seeds large, about an inch long, ere£t, lanceolate, acute, not
beaked, furrowed, fmooth, of a Alining brown, with a fweet
aromatic flavour, and crowned by the fpreading ftyles.