SPINDEL: A genus of the digynia order, belonging to the pentandra clas of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 45th order, Umbellatae. The fruit is oblong and striated; and the petals are inflected and emarginated. Of this genus Linnaeus enumerates nine species; but none of them merit particular notice, except the cretensis, otherwise called daucus creticus, which grows wild in the Levant and the warmer parts of Europe. The leaves are irregularly disposed, and formed like those of fennel. The flower-stalk rises about two feet high, sending out many branches, terminated at the top by compound umbels, composed of near 20 small ones. These have white flowers with five petals, which are succeeded by oblong, hairy, channelled fruit, divided into two parts, containing one oblong hairy seed. The seeds have a warm biting taste, with an agreeable aromatic smell. They are kept in the shops as a medicine, as carminative, and said to be diuretic; but are little used in practice. The plant may be propagated,