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1 millimeter long, with 2 mericarps, which are 
tibbed and contain oil tubes. Celery fruit is 
carminative and powerfully stimulating in its 
action, and has been used with good effect in 
certain forms of nervous headache; usually 
given in form of powder or extract. Everyone 
is familiar with the succulent petioles of the 
radical leaves of the Celery; these to be edible 
and thoroughly palatable must be blanched, or 
what is known in botany as etiolated, and this is 
done by planting in trenches and keeping the 
plant well covered with earth, to exclude the 
light. The name is said to be derived from the 
Celtic word apon, water, from the fact, that 
when wild it grows near the water. 
Capiscum, Red Pepper, Guinea Pepper, 
Cayenne Pepper, etc.—-Natural order Solanacez. 
Said to grow wild in India, and cultivated in 
tropical Africa and America, The Capsicum is 
an annual plant, 2 or 3 feet high, adorned with 
_ entire lanceolate leaves at regular intervals 
along the foot stalk. Flowers white, solitary 
and situated on long peduncles, arising from the 
axil of the leaves. Fruit Capsicum Fructus) 
of a red-orange color. pen ulous, smooth and 
shining; 4 to 2 of an inch (12 to 18 millimeters) 
in length. Fruit 2-celled, within which are 
two oviform seeds, which are attached to a 
central placenta. The odor of the Capiscum is 
peculiar, and the taste hot and. biting. The 
Capsicum Annum differs little from the afore- 
mentioned, save in the size of its fruit, which is 
larger, about two or three inches long. The 
variety known as the Cerasiforme is about the 
size and shape of our garden cherry. Capsi- 
