PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Coriandrum. 



I 



l,fig. I-Blacknu. 5 C 15-Matth. 2i-Ger. 895-Tb«r«. l65- 

 Fucbs, 231-J. B. iii. 2. 1 l-Trag. M5-Kniph. 4. 



Involucr. none, or but rarely, of 1 leaf. Iwvolucd. from the 

 side as in this genus. Petals white. Linn* 



Athamanta Meum. Sp. pi. Ligusticum Meum. Crantz. 

 Seseli Meum. Scop. — Meum ath am antic urn. Jacq. — Spjgnel. 

 SpickneL Meu. Bald, or Bawd Money. Spignel Ciceley. — 



Mountainous pastures in the northern counties. Near Dolgehle, 

 Merionethshire. In a field by the 4th milestone, leading from 

 Kendal to Appleby, but not frequent in Westmoreland. Mr. 

 Gough. In Conistone, Furness Fells. Mr. Jackson. P. May.* 





001 



CORIANDRUM, Blossom radiated ; petals bent 



inwards, notched 

 leaf: involuceL 

 fruit globular, 



the end : involucrum 1 



hing half way round 



C. Fruit globular. 



Wood*. 181-£. hot. 67-Kniph. 10-Lud<w. 37~Riv. pent. 70, 



176-Fuchs. 345-7 



SQ 



Do J. 302. 1 and 2-Lob. obs. 403, and ic. i. 705. <2-Gcr. 



em 



Matth 



763-Trag. 1 1 5-IrOW. 79. 



Whole plant smooth. Leaves cut into very slender strap* 

 shaped segments. Proper calyx 5 leaves, permanent, more dis- 

 tinctly formed than is usual in umbelliferous plants. Styles per- 

 manent, reflected. Outer florets of the umbellules barren ; petals 

 larger, radiated, expanding ; central florets fertile, petals equal 4 

 bent inwards. Flowers whitish. Seeds 2, continuing united so 

 as to form a globe. 



Common Coriander* Cornfields, road sides, and dunghills. 



A. June, July.t 



sati'vum. 



* Linnaeus says, that the radical fibres of this plant form the basis of 

 the Calculus ^Egagropila, but though 1 have examined several of these 

 balls, I never found it so. Mr. Gough. The roots and seeds are aromatic 

 and acrid. They have been used as stomachics and carminatives. Some- 

 times they are given to cure tertians ; and there is no doubt but they will 

 often answer as well as pepper, and other acrid aromatics. 



t The leaves have a very strong and disagreeable scent. The seeds 

 are grateful to the taste, and incrusted with sugar are sold by the confec- 

 tioners under the name of coriander, comfits. The Edinburgh college use 

 them as correctors in the bitter infusion and the preparations of senna, no- 

 thing so effectually covering the disagreeable taste of that medicine. They 

 have been considered as suspicious, if not deleterious, but I have known 



6 drains of them taken at once, without any remarkable effect. 



