Sweet Cicely, or Great Chervil, or Shepherd's Needle, the Scandix odoralti, L. is a native plant, growing in orchards, hedges, and waste places, but generally near houses; and is chiefly found in the counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancaster, and Worcester. It is perennial, produces white flowers, which blow in the month of May or June, and seeds of a sweet and agreeable taste. The whole plant lias an aromatic scent, and its seeds are used in the north of England, for polishing and perfuming oak-floors, and furniture : they also yield an essential oil, similar to that obtained from anise-seeds. - The fresh leaves and stalks of the sweet cicely impart to wool a fine citron yellow dye, when prepared in a solution of bismuth ; as asserted by Dambourney.