DIGYNIA 



305 



Wild 



/ 



3 



Var. 2. Leaves broader. 



June, July 



■M, 



7 



obs. 407. 2, andic. L709. 1~Ger. em. 1025. A-Park. 944. 



Retzius remarks -that the cultivated garden Parsnep has wing- 

 cleft leafits, furnished with ear-like appendages, and that it is 

 either hairy or smooth.* 



Garden Parsnep* 





SMYR'NIUM. Petals keeled, tapering to a point: 



fruit egg-globular, bulging, angular with ribs. 



S. Stem -leaves growing by threes; on leaf-stalks; serrated* Olusa'trum, 



Dicks, b. s.-E. hot. 330-Ger. 864. 1-Trag. 42>6-Lon'ic. u 

 237. <2-Blackw. 408- J. B. iii. 2. 126-ZW. 698. \-Lob. 

 i. 70S. 2~Ger. em. \O\9~Park. 930. 1-Pet. 24. l-H. ox. 



fig 







Root-leaves in triple threes, stem-leaves in threes ; the upper 

 ones opposite, 3 on a leaf-stalk. Sheaths of the leaves ragged 

 and fringed. Iirvolucell. very short. Central florets male, the 

 others hermaphrodite. Linn. Whole plants smooth, pale green, 

 often of a sickly yellowish cast. Flowers greenish yellow. 



Alissanders* Common Alexanders. Ditches and rocks on the 



sea coast. About Scarborough Castle, Deptford, Battersea, Yaux- 

 tall, and Nottingham. [Almost covers the South- west end of 

 Anglesea. Penn. wales h. 253. Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Woodw. 

 Under the walls of York. Mr, Wood. Between Great Comber, 

 ton and Wollershill, under hedges near the Avon, Worcester- 

 shire. Nash. Found by the Rev. Mr. Welles at Hill Croome, 

 Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. And Pirton, plentifully. Mr. 

 Hollefear. Very common in all the Western counties, and 

 *ko in the flat parts of Gloucestershire. E. May, Juue.t 



* 



# The roots when cultivated are sweeter than carrots, and are much 

 used by those who abstain from animal food in Lent : they are highly mi- 

 ctions. In the North of Ireland they are brewed, instead of malt, with 

 {?°Ps, and fermented with yeast. The liquor thus obtained is agreeable. 

 The seeds contain an essential oil, and will often cure intermittent fevers. 

 H °gs are fond of the roots, and quickly grow fat with them. 



+ It was formerly cultivated in our gardens, but its place is now bet- 

 ter supplied by celery. It is boiled and greedily eaten by sailors return- 

 l H from long voyage*, who happen to land at the South-west corner of 



^lesea. Pennant. 



Vol- II. X 



