a genus of the pentandra order, belonging to the digynia class of plants. There are five species, viz. the trifida, with bipinnate leaves; the fisca, with double winged leaves; the libanotis, with smooth furrowed seeds; the linearia, with plain channelled fruit; and the hungarica, with a plain, fungous, channelled seed. All these are perennial plants, rising pretty high, and bearing large umbels of yellow flowers, and may be propagated by seeds which ought to be sown soon after they are ripe; for if they are kept out of the ground till the next spring, they often miscarry. They must also be sown in a shady border where they are to remain: for the plants, having long tap-roots, will not bear transplanting so well as many others. The Hungarians in the neighbourhood of Erlaw, and those who border on Transylvania, Servia, &c.