76 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. ^gopodium. 



1. A. graveolen6\ Smallage Parsley. Wild Celery. 



Leaflets of the stem-leaves wedge-shaped. Stem furrowed. 

 Partial bracteas none. 



A. graveolens. Linn. Sp. PL 379. Willd. v. ] . \ 475. FL Br. 333. 

 Engl. Bot. r. 17. ^ 1210. Hook.Scot.9o. Fl.Dan. t.790. Ehrh. 

 PI. Off. 443 8f 223. 



A. Celleri. Gcertn. v. 1. 99. t. 22. f. 9. 



A. n. 784. Hall. Hist. v. 1.348. 



A. palustre et A. officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 154. Raii Syn. 214. 



A. palustre. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 126./. bad. Camer. Epit. 527./ 

 good. 



A. vulgare ingratius. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 100./ 



Apium. Fuchs. Hist, 744. f. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 87. 



Eleoselinum sive Paludapium. Ger. Em. 1014./ bad, copied from 

 Matthiolus. 



In ditches and marshy ground, especially towards the sea. 



Biennial. August, September. 



Root tap-shaped. Herb smooth and shining. Stems widely spread- 

 ing, or floating, long, branched, furrowed, leafy. Leaves pin- 

 nate, or ternate, bright green ; leajiets wedge-shaped 5 entire 

 in their lower part, variously notched, often deeply lobed, in 

 front. Umbels terminal and lateral ; frequently almost sessile, 

 accompanied by 1 or 2 ternate leaves ; their general rays un- 

 equal ; partial equal, and more numerous. Partial bracteas al- 

 together wanting ; nor are there any general ones, except the 

 ternate leaves above mentioned, which are greatly diminislied, 

 and mostly entire. Fl. small, numerous, greenish white. Fruit 

 almost orbicular, with permanent, wide-spreading, not reflexed, 

 styles. 



The seeds, and whole plant, in its native ditches, are acrid, and 

 dangerous, with a peculiar strong taste and smell. By culture 

 it becomes the mild and grateful Garden Celery, for which, and 

 its name, we are indebted to the Italians, and which has now 

 supplanted our native Alexanders, Smyrnium Olusatrum. 



A. Petroselinum appears to have no claim to a place in a British 

 Flora ; nor have I ever seen it even apparently wild. 



157. iEGOPODIUM. Gout-weed. 



Linn.Gen.\4Q. Juss.2\9. Fl.Br.333. Gcertn. t. \40. 



Fl. all perfect and prolific, the outermost only slightly irre- 

 gular. Cal. none. Pet. inversely heart-shaped, broad, 

 with an inflexed point ; the outer one, of the marginal 

 flowers, a little the largest. Filam. thread-shaped, spread- 

 ing, the length of the petals. Anth. roundish. Germen 

 inferior, turbinate, slightly compressed, furrowed, oblique. 



