g g ENGLISH BOTANY. 



superseded by other remedies. Cattle are not ^frequently destroyed by eating it, and 

 ZSSA-IUj through carelessness-accidents have happened to children and 

 Xrspalki'g of ft ignorantly. Haller supposed it to be the «^ of the Greeks 

 loughthe action of the Greek poison-cup did not agree with the known propert.es ot 

 Cicuta. It is sometimes applied externally as a poultxce for rheumatism. 



GENUS F/.-APIUM. Linn. 

 Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals suborbicular, entire, with an inflexed 

 point. Cremocarp nearly globular, ^^\^JZl%^ 

 didymous; columella free, entire; mencavps with 5 equal fihform 

 ridges, th; lateral ones marginal; interstices each with a single 

 vitta Involucre and involucel none. 



Herbs with pinnate leaves and shortly-stalked terminal ox- 

 lateral umbels. Flowers greenish-white. 



The origin of the name of this genus is ape*, the summit or crown, in allusion to 

 its use for crowning in the ancient triumphs. 



SPECIES I.-AP I Uffl G R AVE O LENS. Linn. 

 Plate DLXXII. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol XXI. Tab. 1854. 

 Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. No. 1887. 



Radical leaves pinnate, with 2 or 3 pairs of angular deltoid 

 or rhomboidal cut or lobed and crenate-serrate or serrate pinn*. 

 the lower pair stalked and frequently ternate. Umbels shortly 

 stalkeZ opposite the leaves and terminal. Cremocarp broader 

 than long, with the ridges very prominent. 



In damp places impregnated with salt, especially along the side 

 of dhcles by the sea and tidal rivers. Frequent in England rare in 

 Scolnd, though found in a few places on the West coas as^ tar 

 North as Cantire, in Argyleshire : also reported from he East 

 Lowland coast, where, however, I have never seemt, though lie 

 a specimen from Musselburgh Links collected by Dr. J. B. Soott 

 but I have no doubt it had been introduced in that locality, and it 

 probably does not grow there now. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Root fusiform, producing the tat yea. o tuft of *£fj£<» 

 on petioles 3 inches to 1 foot long ; lnmnm m th£« r pa. ?. 



length of the first, the upper pair sessde and oiten moie 01 



