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A leaning mountain fell over into the sea and under it was 

 found gold dust and sand in equal quantities. Turnips plenty 

 and very large — taste unpleasant to strangers on account of the 

 very free use of poudrette. 



Climate delightful. 



From Lindley '• Vegetable Eingdom. 



APIACE^ UMBELLIFERS 



Of which celery, parsley, &c. are part. These have their flow- 

 on the top of what resemble umbrella sticks, and therefore called 

 Umbellifers, They are called Apiaceae from the Latin name of 

 parsley, Apiura. Some of these plants are injurious to health. 

 Among the harmless ones we have celery, fennel, parsley, 

 camphire and the roots of carrots, parsnips and skirrets 

 or slum sissarum. In addition to these, which everybody 

 knows, the following more particularly deserve mention as eata- 

 bles (esculents). The root of Eryngium Campestre and Maratin- 

 um, commonly called Eryngo, is sweet, aromatic, and tonic; 

 much of it is sold in a candied state. The roots of Meum Atham- 

 anticum and Mutellina are aromatic, and form an ingredient in 

 Venice treacle. Angelica root is fragrant, &c. The Laplanders 

 extol it not only as a food but as a medicine also. In coughs and 

 other pectoral disorders they eat the stalks of it roasted in the he; 

 ashes ; they also boil the tender flowers in milk till it attains the 

 consistence of an extract. Chervill, an old-fashioned pot-herb, 

 with eatable roots, is the anthrisous cerefolium. Alexanders 

 (Smyrnium Olusatrum) were formerly cultivated instead of celeryj 

 the leaves have a slight and pleasant aromatic flavor. The tubers 

 of the Bunium Terulaseum are eaten in Greece by the name of 

 Topana. Samphire is one of the best of all ingredients in pickles. 

 Carum Bulborastum or English pignut is quite wholesome, as are 

 also tlie roots of the (Eaanthe, the Pimpinelloides. 



Anesorhiza Capensis and Faeniculum Capense are both Cape 

 esculents. Arracacha Esculenta are inhabitants of the table land 

 of Granada — has large esculent roots resembling the parsnip in 

 quality but is better. Prangus Pabularia, a herbaceous plant, in- 

 habiting the arid plains of Southern Tartary and adjoining pro- 



