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52. Meum, or Spignel(t). On a hill by the village of Thockring- 

 toity on the north fide of it ; where it is called Hook-a, and the 

 hill ffook-a'-hill, by the common people, from the frequent hook- 

 ing or digging of it up for ufe. The root pierces deep into the 

 ground, of the thicknefs of a man's finger, brown on the out- 

 fidc, and white within, with a tuft of fibres of decayed leaves 

 at the crown. The radical leaves are on long pedicles, large, 

 divided into numerous, oblong, capillary fegments of a deep 

 green, foft in handling, and pleafant to the eye. The (talks are 

 round, ftriated, and branched towards the top, with leaves like 

 the radical ones, but (mailer, and alternate. The flowers are 

 white, in umbels. The feed is oblong, ftriated, and of an aro- 

 matic fmell, when dried. It grows in great abundance upon this 

 hill, but no where elfe with us that I know of. In the fields 

 about two miles from Sedberg by the road to Orton, in Weft norland, 

 it is faid to be in great plenty, where it is called by the common 

 people, Bald-money ; alfo at Long-well, in Selftde, about three miles 

 from Kendal, and in feveral other places in that county *. 



53. Alexanders (u). In gravelly places, and about rocks, near 

 the fea. On a gravelly bank at the OJlium of Willing ton-burn., near 



Hoivden- 



(t) Meum. Dod. purg. 478. optime. Riv'tn. t. 62. bene. Raj. Hift. i. p. 432. Syn. 

 iii. p. 207. Boerh. Jnd. A. p. 49. Dal. Pharm. p. 121. Meum foliis Anethi. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 148. Tourn. Inft. p. 312. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 225. Meum Athamanticum. Morif. Um- 

 bell. p. 4. femen. F. f. & 79. So. Meum vulgare tenuifolium. Hift. Oxon, iii. p. 270. 

 Athamanta foliis capillaribus, femiiiibus glabris ftriatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 93. Upf. 

 p. 60. Royen, lugdo. p. 97. Meum. HAL Helv. p. 416. 



* Wilfan. Syn. p. 66. 



(u) Hippofelinum THEOPHRASTI, vel Smyrnium DIOSCORIDIS. C. B. Pin. 154. Ma- 

 cerone, quibufdam Smyrnium, femine magno nigro. /. B. iii. p. 126. Hippofelinum. Raj. 



Hift. 



