4*4

PENT ANDRIA—DIGYNIA.

P. Sic. PastinaCse sativa: fol. semine hirsuto Cup. Hort.Cath.p. 160.

Cachrys sicula foliis Pastinac® latifoliae, semine sulcatoet hirsuto Mich.Cat. hor. cces. Flor. p. 19. n. 3 ., et app.p. xai.

C. sicula semine fungoso striato, lanuginoso, exteriuscandido, foliis Pastinaca latifolia Moris. Oxon. sect. 9.tab.i.fig. 4.

Ital. Ferola saracinesca ,

Bienn. Perenn. Habui ex vallibus, et collibus Siciliae abEq. Gussonio, ex pascuis Sardiniae ab Eq. Prof. Mori-sio . Floret Majo, Junio.

Radix fusiformi-ramosa, pro ratione plantae parva. Cau-lis teres, farctus, crassus , sulcatus, striatus, erectus,glaber, subinde apice hirtus, glaucus, tripedalis-orgya-lis, ramosus, ramis alternis, vel supremis oppositis,aut subverticillato-ternis . Folia radicalia prima sim-plicissima , cordato-subrotunda, aut cordato-elliptica ,obtusa, crenata, successiva pariter simplicia, triloba,vel quinqueloba, radicalia reliqua, et caulina inferio-ra amplissima, pinnata, pinnis paucis, una-tribus ,foliolis late ovatis, aut oblongis , grandibus, obtusis ,obtuseque lobatis, dentatis, sinuatis, concavo-canali-culatis , flexuoso-undatis , saepe cuneate decurrentibus,alias cordatis , oppositis quandoque basi connato-per-foliatis, petiolata, petiolo crasso, semitereti, striato,glabro, vel pubescente, basi in foliis radicalibus ex-panso in vaginam latam, brevissimam, in caulinis invaginam paulo longiorem , extus sulcatam , pubescen-tem, intus laevem, glabram , margine membranaceo, in-voluto; caulina superiora iterum simplicia, cordato-tri-loba, lobis subincisis, aut integra, acute, inaequaliter-que dentata, petiolo breviore, aut vagina petiolari tan-tum suffulta. Folia omnia supra Iste viridia, glabra,nitida,subtus albo-tomentosula. Umbells solitaris, ter-minales cauli, ramisque, pedunculats, grandes, multi-radiats,radiis quadraginta-quinquaginta, convexs, la-terales suprems subinde primaria altiores. Involucrumuniversale polyphyllura, foliolis lanceolato-linearibus,reflexis, pubescentibus, margine albo-membranaceis ,nonnullis interdum elongatis, apice foliaceis, folio in-tegro, spathulato, aut argute laciniato-dentato. Radiiumbells crassi, striati, pubescentes . Petala alba , ex-terna paululum majora. Diachenium ovoideo-oblongum,«ostig densissime villoso-tomentosis, villis fasciculatis.