17S ENGLISH BOTANY. 



that herb, Ijlanched by being eartheJ-up in growing. The fruit when lipe is quite 

 black ; whence the old herbalists gave the plant the name of Olus atrum, or Black 

 Potherb. John Ray says it was called Alexanders, because in Italy it had long been 

 called Herha Alexandrina, being supposed to come from Alexandria. Dr. Prior tells 

 us that the name is given on account of its being a plant of Macedon, Alexander's 

 country, and that it was formerly called Petroselinum Macedonicum. It is the Hippose- 

 linum of Theophrastus and Pliny. 



Tribe XI.— COEIANDRE^. 



Cremocarp smootli, globular, or didymous and bi-globular ; 

 columella bipartite, more or less adnate to the mericarps ; meri- 

 carps hemispherical or sub-globular, with the 5 primary ridges 

 depressed and flexuous or represented by furrows, the 4 secondary 

 ones more prominent. Seed concave on the side next the colu- 

 mella, the albumen being inflexed at the top and bottom. 



C^^iNTZZS' XZX7X— O R I A N D R U M. 



Calyx-limb of 5 unequal teeth. Petals obovate, emarginate, 

 with an inflexed lobe, the exterior ones radiant and bifid. Cremo- 

 carp globular, smooth ; columella split in the middle, adnate to 

 the mericarps at the base and apex ; mericarps falling off united, 

 hemispherical, with the 5 primary ridges depressed and flexuous, 

 and 4 secondary ones and the margins elevated into keels ; inter- 

 stices without vittse, the only ones present being 2 on the face 

 where the two mericarps meet each other. Albumen of the seed 

 excavated on the face next the columella. Involucre none. 



A glabrous herb, with the stem-leaves ternate-pinnately de- 

 compound. Mowers white or pink. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is not pleasant — it has allusion 

 to its peculiar scent, and comes from the Greek word Kopiawov (koriamion), a bug. 



SPECIES I.-CORI AND RUM SATIVUM. Linn. 

 Plate DCXXXII. 

 The only known species. 



In fields and waste places, and by the sides of rivers. Eare, 

 and scarcely even naturalized, though frequently escaping from 

 cultivation in Essex and about London. 



[England.] Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, 1 to 3 -feet high, slender, flexuous, paniculately 

 branched. Lowest leaves stalked, pinnate or bipinnate, with 

 roundish or oval slightly lobed and crenately-cut shortly-stalked 



