CORIANDRUM SATIVUM. 
Frurr, dry, consisting of two coherent carpels, separating from 
each other by their faces (commissure,) into two halves 
(merocarps). 
Seeps, Concave, numerous. 
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THE SECONDARY .CHARACTERS. 
Corranprum. Calyx with five conspicuous teeth. Petals, 
obcordate, inflected at the point, outer ones radiate, bifid. Fruit, 
globose. Carpels, whering with. five depressed, primary ribs, 
and four secondary, more prominent ones. Seeds concave on 
the face. 
Seeds, sub-spherical. Germ spherical. Perianth five-toothed. Petals cordate-in 
flexed, outer ones largest. Involucre one-leaved or wanting. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Corranprum Sativum. Leaves, bipinnate, lower ones with 
broad cuneate leaflets, wpper with linear ones. Carpels hemis- 
pherical. 
Fruit globose. Calyx and style permanent. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS. 
Ciass, PEnvanpria. Stamens, five, Orver Dieynia. Poly-$ 
 petalous, Seedstwo. Flowersin umbels. Herbs with hollow 
stems. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
Corianver is mentioned by Moses (16 Ex. 31.) “ And the 
house of Israel] called the name thereof, Manna, and it was like 
Coriander Seed, white ; and the taste of it was like wafers made 
with honey.” 
The plant is an annual, a native of Italy and the southern 
parts of Europe. It is occasionally found wild in some parts of 
the United States, but is cultivated in gardens owing to the 
abundant use of it for medicinal purposes. It delights i in a sandy 
loam. Itis raised from. seeds which may be sown in February 
_ or March, when the weather is mild and dry; and the quantity 
requisite for a bed four feet wide by six in length, to be sown in 
_ rows, is halfan ounce, and when sown in drills, they may be nine 
eae ees —_ the seed buried Sema inch. Where a con- — 
