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UMBELLIFERiE 



slender stalks and linear segments ; bract solitary, 3-cleft, or absent ; 

 bracteoks 2 — 3-linear ; flowers minute. — Dry limestone rocks, 

 Bristol and South Devon ; very rare. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



10. Apium. — Glabrous; leaves pinnate or tern ate ; umbels com- 

 pound, often in the forks of the stem ; bracts absent; bracteoles many 



or absent ; sepals 

 absent ; petals en- 

 tire. (Name, the 

 Classical name of 

 this or some allied 

 genus.) 



I. A, graveolens 

 (Wild Celery, 

 Smallage). — Stem 

 usually I — 2 feet 

 high, furrowed, 



branched, and 

 leafy, but some- 

 times nearly pros- 

 trate ; leaves pin- 

 nate ; lobes cut ; 

 umbels sessile or 

 nearly so, terminal 

 or axillary ; bracte- 

 oles absent ; flowers 

 greenish - white, 

 small. ^ — ^Moist 

 places near the sea ; 

 not uncommon. 

 The origin of the 

 garden celery, and 

 unmistakably dis- 

 tinguished by its 

 strong flavour and 

 rank odour. In its 

 wild state, or until 

 the leaf-stalks have been blanched by the exclusion of light, it is 

 not eatable. — Fl. June — August. Biennial. 



2. A. nodiflbrum (Procumbent Marsh-wort). — Stem prostrate 

 and rooting, hollow ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate, serrate, acute ; 

 umbels sessile, or nearly so ; rays unequal ; bracteoles many, 

 membranous ; flowers small, white. — Ditches and rivulets ; 

 abundant. Growing with Watercress, this plant is sometimes 



Apium graveolens {Wild Celery, Smallage'). 



