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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



9. Selago Divaricata; Spreading Selago. Heads termi- 

 nating ; leaves filiform, linear, fascicled, smooth. Native of 

 the Cape. 



10. Selago Canescens ; Hoary Selago. Spikes terminating; 

 leaves filiform, fascicled, smooth. Native of the Cape. 



11. Selago Geniculata; Jointed Selago. Spikes terminat- 

 ing; leaves linear, fascicled, smooth, with the margin bent 

 back. Native of the Cape. 



12. Selago Triquetra; Three-sided Selago. Spikes termi- 

 nating ; leaves three-sided, imbricate, recurve, reflex, smooth. 

 Native of the Cape. 



13. Selago Hispida; Hispid Selago. Spikes terminating ; 

 leaves linear, scattered, reflex, hispid. Native of the Cape. 



14. Selago Polygaloides ; Milkwort-like Selago. Spikes 

 terminating; bractes and calices keeled; laminae rugged; 

 leaves linear, smooth, with a reflex margin. Native of the 

 Cape. 



15. Selago Cinerea ; Ash-coloured Selago. Corymb com- 

 pound ; leaves linear, fascicled, smooth, reflex at the edge. 

 Native of the Cape. 



16. Selago Rotundifolia; Round-leaved Selago. Corymb 

 compound; leaves ovate, smooth, obtuse. Native of the 

 Cape. 



17. Selago Ciliata; Fringed Selago. Flowers in spikes; 

 leaves ovate, ciliate, acute. Native of the Cape. 



18. Selago Verbenacea ; Vervain Selago. Spikes fascicled ; 

 leaves oblong, smooth ; stem four-cornered, right-angled. 

 Native of the Cape. 



19. Selago Hirta ; Rough-haired Selago. Spikes very 

 long ; leaves obovate. Native of the Cape. 



'20. Selago Ovata; Ovate-headed Selago. Spikes strobiline, 

 ovate, terminating ; leaves scattered, linear ; stem shrubby ; 

 they are slender, hairy, and branched ; flowers white, with 

 a yellow spot on the two uppermost segments, and sometimes 

 on all of them, and an orange spot at the mouth of the tube. 

 This plant is valuable, not so much on account of its beauty, 

 as the curious structure of its spikes, and its fragrancy. The 

 flowers appear in June and July. Native of the Cape. 



Self-heal. See Prunella. 



Selinum; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: umbel universal manifold, 

 spreading, flat; partial similar. Involucre universal many- 

 leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, linear, reflex ; partial similar, 

 spreading, length of the corollet. Perianth proper scarcely 

 observable. Corolla: universal uniform; florets all fertile ; 

 partial, of five cordate equal petals. Stamina: filamenta five, 

 capillary; antherae roundish. Pistil: germen inferior; styles 

 two, reflex ; stigmas simple. Pericarp : none ; fruit com- 

 pressed, flat, oval, oblong, striated in the middle on both 

 sides, bipartite. Seeds: two, oval-oblong-, flat on both sides, 

 striated in the middle, with the sides membranaceous. Ob- 

 serve. The seeds vary in form ; and the involucres in number 

 of leaflets. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Petals: cordate, 

 equal. Involucre: reflex. Fruit: oval-oblong, compressed, 

 flat, stiiated in the middle. The plants of this genus are 

 easily propagated by seeds sown in the autumn. They are 



to be treated in the same way as Angelica, which see. 



The species are, 



1. Selinum Svlvestre; Wild Selinum. Stem even; root 

 fusiform, manifold; herb milky. Native of Denmark, Ger- 

 many, Silesia, France, and Piedmont. 

 . 2. Selinum Palustre; Marsh Selinum. Stem stiiated; 

 root almost simple; rays of the umbel hispid. Root subfusi- 

 form, thick, brandling, yellowish without, white within. The 

 whole plant, when wounded, pours forth a milky, thick, 

 bitter, fetid 1 iuice, as thick as cream, which soon dries to a 



brownish resin. It flowers in July. Found in swamps and 

 on moors in the north of Europe, Germany, Austria, Dau- 

 phiny, and Piedmont; indigenous of England, found plenti- 

 fully in the low wet moors n'ear Whitgift, Yorkshire, four 

 miles from the confluence of the Ouse and Trent ; at Weel 

 carr, and other wet places near Beverley ; in Alder swamps, 

 near Yarmouth; between Norwich and Higham, towards the 

 river ; and near Prickwillow bank in the isle of Ely. 



3. Selinum Austriacum ; Austrian Selinum. Stem grooved ; 

 universal involucre many-leaved; leaflets wedge-form, gashed. 

 Root perennial, at the beginning of autumn pouring out a 

 moderate quantity of yellowish-white milk. Native of Austria, 

 Idria, and the south of Europe. 



4. Selinum Sibiricum ; Siberian Selinum. Leaves tripin- 

 nate; universal and partial involucres colourless, nine-leaved. 

 Root biennial, fusiform. It has the smell of a fresh carrot- 

 root, and has a singular appearance on account of the white 

 involucrets entirely involving the umbellets before they are 

 completely unfolded. Stem erect, three feet high, hollow, 

 striated, glaucous. Native of Siberia. 



5. Selinum Caruifolia; Caraway-leaved Selinum. Stem 

 grooved, acute, angled; universal involucre none; leaflets 

 lanceolate, gashed, callose, mucronate at the top. Root per- 

 ennial. It flowers in July and August. Native of Denmark, 

 Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Siberia. 



6. Selinum Ghabrsei; Carrot-leaved Selinum. Stem round, 

 striated ; universal involucre none ; sheaths of the leaves 

 loose; leaflets filiform, linear. Height from eight inches to 

 a foot. Native of Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. 



7. Selinum Seguieri ; Fennel-leaved Selinum. Stem round- 

 ish, striated ; universal involucre none ; leaflets trifid, linear, 

 mucronate. Corollas expanded ; petals white. It flowers in 

 July. Native of Italy and Carniola. 



8. Selinum Monnieii ; Annual Selinum. Umbels clustered ; 

 universal involucre reflex ; five membranaceous ribs to the 

 seed. In a garden it often becomes quite smooth. Annual. 

 Native of the south of France. 



9. Selinum Decipiens. Stem woody, naked below; lower 

 leaves bipinnate; pinnules lanceolate, entire, and gashed- 

 serrate. Native of Madeira. 



Semecarpus; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Tri- 

 gynia; or of the class Polygamia, order Dioecia. GENERIC 

 CHARACTER. Hermaphrodite. Calix : perianth one-leafed, 

 bell-shaped, inferior, half five-cleft ; segments cordate, acute. 

 Corolla : petals five, lanceolate, bordered, obtuse, larger than 

 the segments of the calix. Filamenta: five, awl-shaped, shorter 

 than the corolla, inserted into the receptacle ; antherse oblong, 

 small. Pistil: germen superior, globular, depressed ; styles 

 three, recurved, incumbent on the germen, and shorter than it; 

 stigmas club-shaped, retuse. Pericarp: none. Receptacle: 

 erect, fleshy, pear-shaped or globular, depressed, smooth. 

 Seed: a single nut, resting upon the receptacle, heart-shaped, 

 flattened on both sides, smooth, and shining. Male Flowers: 

 on a separate tree, smaller than the hermaphrodites. Calix 

 and Corolla: as in the hermaphrodites. Stamina: filamenta 

 five, length of the petals; anthers much larger. Pistil: 

 none; but in its place a semi-globular, hairy, glandulous 

 body. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: inferior, five-cleft. 

 Corolla: five-pctalled. Nut: kidney-form, inserted into a 

 large, fleshy, flattened receptacle. The only known spe- 

 cies is, 



1. Semecarpus Anacardium; Marking-Nut Tree. Leavrs 

 about the extremities of the branchlets, alternate, petioled, 

 wedge-form, rounded at the apex, entire, firm, above pretty 

 smooth, below whitish and scabrous, from nine to eighteen 

 inches loner, and from four to eicht broad. The green fruit, 



