84 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Memn. 



pitium aquilegi folium of Willdenow ; Sison sylvaticum of Brotero, 

 Phyt. Lusit. 3o ; and 2nd Suujrnium ntuUcaule, Marsch. Taur. 

 Caucas. v. 1 . 238. The first bars rough-edged leaves, and is much 

 stouter in every part than the second. Our Cornish plant has 

 been improperly confounded with these two, and, as far as its 

 fruit is known^ answers best to Ligiisticum. 



161. MEUM. Spignel, or Fennel. 

 Tourn. Inst.3[2. f. 165. Fl. Br. 308. Spreng. Prodr.32. Gartn. 



t.23. 

 Foeniculum. Tourn. t. 164. Gartn. t. 23. 



Fl. all uniform, perfect, and prolific. Cat. none. Pet. 5, 

 equal, obovate, with an inflexed point. Filam. about the 

 length of the petals, spreading, incurved. Anth. roundish. 

 Germ, inferior, ovate, striated, abrupt, a little compressed. 

 Styles tumid at the base, very short in the flower, after- 

 wards a little elongated and recurved. Stigmas simple. 

 Fl. Recepf. none. "Fruit elliptic-cblong, very slightly com- 

 pressed, contracted at the summit, and crowned with the 

 permanent styles. Seeds convex, with 3 dorsal and 2 

 marginal, equidistant prominent ribs, the interstices nearly 

 flat and even. Juncture nearly as broad as the seeds. 



Herbaceous, aromatic, with finely divided leaves. Umbels 

 compound. Bracteas various. Fl. cream-coloured, or 

 yellow. 



1. \iV. athamanticuin. Spignel, Men, or Bald-money. 



Leaflets all in numerous, deep, bristle-like, segments. Brac- 

 teas both general and partial. 



M. athamanticum. J acq. Austr. v. 4. 2. t. 303. Spreng. Prodr. 32. 

 FL Br. 308. Engl. Bot. v. 32. t. 2249. Gcertn. v. 1. 105. 



Meum. Raii Syn. 207. Ger. Em. 1 052./. Dod. Pempt. 305./. 

 Matth. Valgr. v. 1 . 22. f. Camer. Epit. 1 . f. Riv. Pentap. Irr. 

 f. 63. 



M. foliis anethi. Bauh.Pin. 148. 



"M. vulgare tenuifolium. Moris, v. 3.2/0. sect. 9. t. 2./ 2. 



Athamanta Meum. Linn. Sp. PL 353. Huds. 1 16. Dicks. H. Sice, 

 fasc. 11.7. 



A. n. 761. Hall. Hist. V. 1.334. 



^thusa Meum. Linn. Si/st. Veg. ed. 13. 237. ed. 14. 287. mild. 

 Sp.Pl.v. 1. 1447. lVith.305. 



Ligusticum Meum. Crontz Austr. fasc. 3. 82. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. 

 v.2\. Comp.46. Hook. Scot. 89. 



Daucus creticus. Trag. Hist. 44b. f Fuchs. Hist. 231. f. 



In mountainous pastures in the North. 



