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stem sliining, two to three feet high, angular and furrowed ; petioles 

 large, hauy on the margin of the inflated base ; leaved three-foliate ; 

 segments broadly ovate, lobcd and toothed ; umbels compound, few- 

 rayed, bracts non(; and bracteoles inconspicuous ; petals ovate, the 

 point turned in ; fruit one -third of an inch, roundish, black when 

 ripe. Distribution, Southern Europe, »fcc. ; habitat, waysides and 

 waste places. Flowers yellow ; February to IMay. 



This plant is also cultivated in gardens, and is much esteemed by 

 the natives for its virtues, which are said to reside in the root ; this 

 is macerated in rum, and used both internally and externally for 

 rheumatism, &c. It Avas formerly cultivated in England, as celery 

 is now, and differs from it but slightly. 



IV. APirM. 



Fruit small, compressed laicrally, with Jive narrow ridges ; Jloivers while ; 

 petals entire, point ivjlexed, 

 1. A, (jrarcolcns (Wild Celery). Eoot biennial; stem smooth, 

 erect, furrowed, about one foot high ; leaves three -foliate, leaflets 

 wedge-shaped, cut and toothed at the point only ; petioles smooth ; 

 umbels compound, axilhiry, on short stalks, bracts and bracteoles 

 none ; petals minute, incurved ; fruit round, one- sixteenth of an inch, 

 ridges narrow, equal. Distribution, Europe and America ; habitat, 

 moist places, not uncommon. Flowers greenish-white ; February 

 to May. Foisonous in the wild state. 



V. I'ETllOSELINUM. 



Fruit as in Apiuin ; petals notched and inficxed. 

 1. F. sativum (Wild Parsley). A biennial, smooth plant; stem 

 erect, branched, angular ; leaves thrice-pinnate, lower leaflets 

 crowded, broadly ova'te, three-cleft, the segments toothed, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, the upper few lance -shaped ; umbels compound, 

 rays numerous, bracts few, simple or divided, bracteoles many, 

 simple. Distribution, Southern Europe ; habitat, waste places, not 

 uncommon. Flowers small, white ; May to September. 



VI. IlELOSCIADIUM. 



Fruit as in Apium; ptetals not indexed. 



1. 11. leptophiillam, B.C. An annual, erect herb, stem twelve to 

 eighteen inches round, polished, obscurely striated and distantly 

 branched ; leaves few, distant, ternately divided into many slender 

 bifld or trifid segments ; uiubels opposite to the leaves, sessile ; 

 bracts and bracteoles none, primary rays two to four, about half an 

 inch long, secondary ra^'s nian}^ one-sixteenth of an inch ; x^etals 

 minute, ovate. Distribution, Jamaica and Southern United States ; 

 habitat, a common Aveed in cultivated ground. Flowers white, 

 tinged with pink ; February to April. 



1). Leaves compound ; umhels compound ; fruJt not lateral} ij compressed. 



VII. FCEXICVLUM. 



Leaves cut into fine segments ; fruit ohlong, broad at the division. 

 1. F. vulgare (Wild Fennel). A stout, erect herb, root perennial ; 



