mccain.) pee. 
ORD. VI. Umbellate. 137 
CORIANDRUM SATIVUM. © COMMON CORIANDER. 
SYNONYMA. Coriandrum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. J. Bauh. 
vol. iii.p.89. Gerard. Emac.p.1012. Raii Hist. p,470.. Synop. 
p. 221. Hall. Stirp, Helv. n.764. Coriandrum majus. Bauh. 
Pin. p. 158. Coriandrum vulgare. Park. Theat: p. 918. C. 
sativum. _Hudson., Flor: Ang. p..123._ Withering. Bot..Arr. p. 
302.... Smith. Brit. 520. Sowerby’s English Botany, p. 67. 
- Kegwy Vel Kogiawor. Dioscorid.  Kograry. _ Theophr. 
Class. Pentandria.. Gril, Durie. Lin. Gen. Plant. 356... 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. radiata: Petala inflexo-emarginata. Involuer. 
universale 1-phyllum : Partialia dimidiata, Fructus sphericus. 
Sp. Ch... €. Fructibus globosis, 
THE root is annual: the stalk is erect, branched, round, smooth, - 
of a glaucous tinge, and rises about two feet in height: the leaves 
are variously pinnated; those of the upper part of the stalk are 
divided into narrow linear alternate pointed segments; those at the 
bottom are cut into irregular serrated lobes, resembling the leaves 
of common parsley : che flowers are white, or reddish, and placed 
in terminal umbels, appearing in June:,.the partial umbels are 
composed. of more radii than the general, and each is furnished 
with an involucrum of three narrow leaves; but the general 
involucrum is commonly wanting,.or composed of a simple leafit : 
the general corolla is irregular in its shape, and unequal: the 
petals are five, oblong, bent inwards, and at the circumference the 
outermost are the largest: the filaments are five,»slender, and. fur- 
nished with roundish yellow anthere: the germen is globular, 
placed below the insertion of the corolla, and supports two short 
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