140 TORNEA. 



bearins; numerous spikes. Lower leaves 

 acute, cordate-obloni^, sharply serrated, the 

 upper ones lanceolate, serrated, two, three, 

 or four together, opposite on the stalk. Co- 

 rolla tubular,dividcd two thirds of its length 

 into two lips, of which the upper is the broad- 

 est, ovate, obtuse, and nearly erect ; the 

 lower three-cleft, the middle segment nar- 

 rowest, but all of equal length. Stamens two, 

 very long, awlshaped, situated at the separa- 

 tion of the two lips. Hence the flower is of 

 the personate kind. Pistil reflexed. Capsule 

 heartshaped, narrow at the upper edge. 

 The flowers are numerous in each spike. 

 2. Selleri, (Apiu?n graveolens*,) unless 



every where that the radical leaves only were cropped, 

 DO others ; which confirmed what 1 have asserted. 

 In a neighbouring meadow I saw this same plant cut 

 with the hay for winter food ; so that it is no wonder 

 if in that state some, even of the more cautious cattle, 

 are destroyed by it." Fl. Lapp. ed. -2. 76. 



* This plant is not mentioned in the F'lora Lnp- 

 ponica, and tlic account ainiexed seems to belong to 

 Liguslkum scoticum, n. 107 of that work, with which 

 it well ao;rees. 



