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supersedeil by other remedies. Cattle are not uufrequontly destroyed by eating it, and 

 occasionally — possibly through carelessness — accidents have happened to children and 

 others partaking of it ignorantly. Haller supposed it to be the Kioitioi' of the Greeks, 

 though the action of the Greek poison-cup did not agree with the known properties of 

 Cicuta. It is sonietitnes applied externally as a j)oultice for rheumatism. 



GENUS FZ— APIUM. Linn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals suborbicular, entire, witli an in flexed 

 point. Cremocarp nearly globular, laterally compressed, sub- 

 didymous ; columella free, entire ; mericarps with 5 equal filiform 

 ridges, the lateral ones marginal ; interstices each with a single 

 vitta. Involucre and involucel none. 



Herbs with pinnate leaves and shortly-stalked terminal or 

 lateral umbels. Elowers greenish-white. 



The origin of the name of this genus is aiJex, the summit or crown, in allusion to 

 its use for crowning in the ancient triumphs. 



SPECIES I.— APIUM GRAVE OL ENS. LUn. 



Plate DLXXII. 



lieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 18o4. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. No. 1887. 



Kadical leaves pinnate, with 2 or 3 pairs of angular deltoid 

 or rhomboidal cut or lobed and crenate-serrate or serrate pinnae, 

 the lower pair stalked and frequently ternate. Umbels shortly 

 stalked, opposite the leaves and terminal. Cremocarp broader 

 than long, with the ridges very prominent. 



In damp places impregnated with salt, especially along the side 

 of ditches by the sea and tidal rivers. Erequent in England, rare in 

 Scotland, though found in a few places on the West coast, as far 

 North as Cantire, in Argyleshire : also reported from the East 

 Lowland coast, where, however, I have never seen it, though I have 

 a specimen from Musselburgh Links collected by Dr. J. 11. Scott ; 

 but I have no doubt it had been introduced in that locality, and it 

 probably does not grow there now. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 



and Autumn. * 



Hoot fusiform, producing the first year a tuft of radical leaves 

 on petioles 3 inches to 1 foot long ; lamina with 2 or 3 pairs of 

 leaflets 1 to 3 inches across, or more ; the lower pair with a stalk 

 \ to 2 inches long, the second pair with the stalk about half the 

 length of the first, the upper pair sessile and often more or less 



