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Stems 3 — 4 f. high, very stout, farrowed. Leaves bright yellow green, 

 twice or (the lower ones) thrice ternate, with a very broad mem- 

 branous base; leaflets very large, broadly ovate, lobed and serrated. 

 Floivers yellow green, in very dense numerous rounded umbels. 

 Fruit almost black when ripe. 



06. CARUM. 



1. C. Carui {common Caraway). Light/, p. 169. E. B.t. 1503. 

 Hab. Rocks of Edinb. castle towards the west. Dr. Parsons. Isle of 



Oransa, Light/. Meadows and pastures, occasionally about Glasg. 



In the huugh of Dalbeth, Hopk. Ft. June. (^ . — Naturalized in 



Britain. Fl. June. <? . 

 Ster)i 1 — 2 f. high. Leaves doubly pinnate, cut into linear segments, 



of which the lowermost are decussate. Umbels dense. Seeds a well 



known officinal aromatic. 



67. PIMPINELLA. 

 1. P. Saxifraga {cofnmon Burnet Saxifrage), radical leaves pin- 

 nate, leaflets roundish sharply serrate, those of the stem bipin- 



nate linear. Ligktf. p. 169. E. B. t. 407. 

 Hab. Dry pastures, very common. Fl. July, Aug. 1/ . 

 Stems 10 inches to a foot high. Umbels at first drooping. 



68. APIUM. 



1. A. graveolens {Sjnallage or wild Celery), stem leaves with 

 their leaflets wedge-shaped, stem furrowed, umbels frequently 

 sessile. Light/, p. 169. E. B.t. \2\0. 



Hab. Marshy places by the sea-side. Ditches behind Musselburgh, 



Dr. Parsons. Fl. Aug. (^ . 

 Two feet high. Leaves ternate ; leciflets large, wedge-shaped, lobed, 



and cut at the extremity ; the lower ones are upon long stalks, and 



have the leaflets rounder and truncate at bottom. Umbellules very 



small. — The origin of the garden Celery. 



2. A. Petroselinum {common Parsley), leaves of the stem with 

 their leaflets linear, umbels all pedunculate. Hull, Br. Fl. p. 309. 



Hab. Rocks by the sea-side at Dunvegan in Skye, but near M'Leod's 

 castle, Dr Walker. Old walls near Inverleith ; on an old wall at 

 Coltbridge, and by the road-side between CoUington and Dreg- 

 horn, Muugh. — This is introduced into Hull's Brit. Flora as a native 

 of England ; and it has an equal right to be considered a native 

 of Scotland, being naturalized, though originally an inhabitant of 

 Sardinia. 



Radical leaflets broad and lobed. This has a monophyllous general 

 involucre and minute partial ones, and Hoftman has made of it the 

 genus Petroselinum. 



09. iEGOPODIUM. 



1. M. Podagraria {Goat-weed). Light/, p. 170. E. B. t. 940. 

 Hab. Gardens and waste places. Fl. June. 1/ . 

 One or one foot and a half high. Radical leaves twice ternate, supe- 

 rior ones ternate 3 leaflets ovate, subacuminate, unequally serrated. 



