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was found in considerable quantities, by Sir 

 Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, on the coast 

 of Terra del Fuego. It is like the garden 

 celeri in its flowers, but the leaves are of a 

 darker colour. The taste of this variety is 

 described as being something between the 

 flavour of celeri and that of parsley. It has 

 been found a very useful ingredient in the 

 soup for seamen, because of its antiscorbu- 

 tic quality. 



Cordus observed, that the Apium sativum, 

 which is our celeri, did not differ from the 

 small age any otherwise than by culture. 

 This plant is bitter, acrid, and aromatic ; it 

 contains a great deal of oily volatile salt, 

 from which the sal-ammoniac is not quite 

 disengaged, but dissolved in a great quantity 

 of phlegm, and united with a considerable 

 portion of earth. By chemical analysis, it 

 yields, besides several acid liquors, a great 

 deal of sulphur and earth, a considerable 

 quantity of an urinous spirit, and a little 

 concreted volatile salt. Thus, it is observed, 

 the plant must be aperient, diuretic, febri- 

 fugous, and vulnerary. 



Bartholomaeus Zorn, in his Botanologia, 

 says, that celeri grows naturally in moist, 

 marshy, and wild places. Both the roots and 



