82 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Ligustlcum. 



and styles. Seeds oblong, each with 3 dorsal and 2 mar- 

 ginal, equal, longitudinal wings. 

 Perennial aromatic herbs, with smooth, compound, ternate 

 or pinnate, notched or deeply cut, leaves. Umbels termi- 

 nal, compound, of numerous, general and partial, angular 

 rai/s. Bracteas general and partial, membranous at the 

 edges. Fl. white, or reddish. 



1. L. scoticum. Scottish Lovage. 

 Leaves twice ternate. 



L scoticum. Unn. Sp. PL 359. mild. v. 1. 1424. Fl. Br. 309. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 17. t. 1207. Hook. Scot. 89. FL Dan. t. 207. 



L. scoticum, apii folio. Raii Syn. 214. 



L. humilius scoticum k maritimis. Pluk. Ahn.2\7 . Phyt. t. 96. /.2. 



Imperatoriae affinis umbellifera maritiina scotica. Sibb. Scot. p. 2. 

 32. <. 12./. 3, bad. 



Seseli maritimum scoticum humile, foliis Imperatoriae. Herm. Fa- 

 rad. 227. f. 



S. scoticum. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 59. 



Scotch Parsley. PeL H. Brit. t. 26./. II. 



On the sea coasts of Scotland, and the north of England. 



About the Frith of Forth, in many places ; also on the western 

 coast. Fl. Brit. Very frequent on the rocky coasts of Scotland. 

 Hooker. At Dunstonburgh castle, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. 



Perennial. July. 



Root tap-shaped, warm and pungent. Stem a foot high, round, 

 striated, smooth, somewhat leafy ; slightly branched in the up- 

 per part. Leaves stalked, twice ternate ; the uppermost sim- 

 ply ternate ; Isabels rhomboid, broad, acute, rather fleshy, veiny, 

 .smooth, serrated, sometimes unequally notched ; entire towards 

 the base. Footstalks bordered, with a purplish compressed mem- 

 brane, at the base. Umbels smooth, not very large. General 

 bracteas oblong, unequal, partly leafy, entire ; partial more nu- 

 merous, lanceolate, somewhat unequal. Fl. white, with a red- 

 dish tinge. Anth. red. 



The herb is eaten, either crude or boiled, by the natives of Scot- 

 land and its isles. The flavour is highly acrid, and though aro- 

 matic, and perhaps not unwholesome, very nauseous to those 

 who are unaccustomed to such food. 



2. L. cornubiense. Cornish Lovage. 



Radical leaves twice or thrice pinnate, rough-edged, cut ; 

 stem-leaves ternate, lanceolate, entire. Ribs of the seeds 

 bluntish. 



L. cornubiense. Linn. Sp. PL359. Willd. v. 1. 1426. Fl. Br. 310- 

 EngL Bot.v. 10. t. 683. Ic. Pict. t.l\. JVith. 297. 



