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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
Herb-Gerard. 
Podagraria. 
‘The root is flender and creeping ; and it has a 
flight tafte of angelica. 
The firft leaves are placed on long, purplifh 
footftalks ; and they are compofed each of nu- 
merous, fmall, ferrated fegments, of a pale green 
_ colour. 
* The ftalk is round, ftriated, branched, and two 
feet high. 
Ge. Boa oN 
The leaves ftand alternately on it, and refemble 
thofe from the root, but that they are fmaller, 
and compofed of fewer parts. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feeds are moderately large and brown. 
The leaves of this plant have been celebrated 
as a remedy for the gout; but they do not de- 
ferve what has been written of them. 
Une 73 x 
ALEXANDERS. 
SMYRNIUM. 
HE flowers are difpofed in an irregular, large umbel, which from time to time increafes in big- 
nefs till they are all open. 
There is no growth of leaves under’ the principal or fecondary 
footftalks. Each fower is compofed of five narrow, pointed, and fomewhat bent petals. The cup 
is very minute. 
with three ftrize, and flat on the other fide. 
The feeds are large, and of a lunulated figure, rounded at the back, and marked 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the flower having five threads, and two ftyles. 
DLVIS LON 1. 
Alexanders. 
Smyrnium vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and white ; of a ftrong 
fmell, and an acrid tafte. 
The leaves that rife from it are very large : they 
are compofed of numerous, fhort, broad fegments ; 
which are nicked at the edges, and of a dark 
reen: their tafte is not unpleafant. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, ftriated, branched, 
and fix feet high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are fmaller. 
DIVISION JL 
Perfoliate Alexanders. 
Smyrnium. perfoliatum, 
The root is long, thick, and white. 
The leaves that rife from it are very large and 
beautiful : they are finely divided into numerous, 
fhort, broad fegments: which are deeply ferra- 
ted, and of a freth green colour. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of thefe; and is 
round, ftriated, branched, and of a pale green. 
G E N 
-BRITISH SPECIES. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh white , 
and the feeds, when ripe, are brown. ‘ 
It is found on our weftern coafts among rocks, 
and flowers in Auguft. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Hippofelinum Theophrafti, vel 
Smyrnium Diofcoridis, Others,  Smyrnium: 
It is a very wholefome and: agreeable plant. 
The leaves and their footftalks blanched are very 
pleafant raw or in foops; and they are good 
againft {corbutick complaints. 
fF O)R EVI-G N&xS Pe BCA Evs: 
The leaves that grow on this are perfectly un~ 
like thofe from the root: they are roundifh, but 
pointed, and undivided: the ftalk runs through 
them. x 
The flowers are fmall and ,whitith; and the 
‘feeds, when ripe, are black. 
: It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers » 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Siyrnium 
» peregrinum rotunda 
folio. 
Ue 8 XI. 
EAR T HN UT, 
BULBOCASTANUM. 
Apes flowers are difpofed in fmall umbells, compofed of divided and fubdivided branches; and 
leaves. 
a little bent. 
on the other. 
at the bafe of the ftalks, and fubdivifions of them, are placed feveral fmall, oblong, flender 
Each flowef is compofed of five petals, nearly equal in fize, heart-fafhioned at the end, and 
The cup'is very fmal!, The feeds are of an oval form, convex on one fide, and flat: 
Linneeus places this among the pentandria digynia, the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
each flower. 
Authors fpeak of a larger and leffer Earthnut ; but they differ only as varieties. There is but one 
fpecies of this genus, and that is a native of Britain. 
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Earthnut. 
