514. 287. Conium. 45. UMiBELLIFER^. Fleoc.cal 



Walls and shady places ; biennial ; June and July. 



Root white ; stem 4 feet high, shining, much branched at 

 top ; leaves shining, bald, of a strong odour ; umbells and 

 umlellules many-i"ayed. — Root supposed poisonous, but 

 Petiver, after seeing Mr. Henley eat between three and 

 four< I ounces, eat himself half an ounce without any ill ef- 

 fect, it tasted like celeri; leaves in powder narcotic, alterant, 

 used in cancer, chronic rheumatism, and obstinate ulcers ; 

 inspissated juice used for the same purposes, and in go- 

 norrhoea, but is less efficacious than the powdered leaves. 

 Chserophyllum temulentum, 275, 2, having a spotted stalk 

 is sometimes used for it ; and the extract is also sold for 

 that of conium maculatum. 



XXIII. 288. BUNIUM. Dioscorides. Earth-nut. 



Involucrum 1, S, or many-leaved ; involucella many- 

 leaved ; calyx ; petals nearly equal, broad, heartshape, 

 nicked, edge inflected ; lacinule short, blunt, inflected ;Jruit 

 oblong, ellipsoid, crowned; akenium linear, elliptical, 

 straight but rather bent at top, 5-ribbed; ribs streaked or 

 folded, with a narrow edge on each side ; vallecules wrin- 

 kled, convex, 1-vittated; vittae rather broad, short, kneedj 

 wrinkled ; spermapodium 2-cut. 



1. Bunium majus. Great earth-nut. 

 Stem straight at bottom, leafy; leaves uniform, tripinnate, 



bald ; petioles nearly equal ; involucrum many-leaved ; Jruii 

 nearly cylindrical, thick at top ; style reflex, falling off. 



Bulbocastanon majus, Ger.em. 1064,2. 



Nucula terrestris major, Park. 893. 



Bunium Bulbocastanntn, Lin. S. P. 349, 



Butiium minus, Gotian Illustr. 10. 



Pimpinella Buibocastanum, Stokes Hot. Mai. Med. 147. 



Fields and pastures ; perennial ; May. 



Tubers roundish; stein branched, bald; leaves triternate; 

 lobes linear, cuts 3 or ; umhells terminal, many-rayed ; 

 involucrum shorter than the rays. 



2. Bunium minus. Lesser earth-nut. 



Stem flexuous, small and leafless at bottom ; leaves tripin- 

 nate, nearly sessile, slender, linear ; involucrum 0, 2, or 

 3-leaved; fruit ovate; style spreading, persistent. 



