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30. Meum (Spignel). — A smooth, aromatic plant ; haves pin- 

 nately decompound with crowded brisfle-Uke segments ; mnbels 

 compound, bracteate ; bracts hnear ; flowers yellowish ; petals 



narrowed at both ends, in- 

 flexed. (Name, the Greek 

 for this or some allied plant.) 

 I. M. alhamdnticum (Spig- 

 nel, Meu, or Bald-money). — 

 Well': distinguished by its 

 bipinnate leaves cut into 

 numerous crowded, acute, 

 bristle-like segments. — Dry 

 moiintainous jiastures ui the 

 north. The whole plant, an A 

 especially the root, which is 

 eaten by the Highlanders, is 

 highly aromatic, with a 

 flavour hke Melilot, which it 

 comrhunicates to milk and 

 butter when the cows feed on 

 its leaves in sprnig. — " Bald, 

 or Bald-Money, is a corrup- 

 tion of Balder, the Apollo of 

 the Northern nations, to 

 whom this plant was dedi- 

 cated." {Sir W. J. Hooker.) 

 — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



31. Hal6scias (Lovage). 

 — Sixiooth plants ; leaves 1 — 

 3-ternately pmnate ; umbels 

 compound, bracteate ; petals 

 white or pink, notched, with 

 a short claw and long inflexed 

 tip ; jruit short, somewhat 

 winged ; seeds loose. (Name 

 from the Greek seias, an 

 umbel, lialos, of the sea.) 



\. H . scAticw)! (Scotch Lov- 

 age*). — Stem little branched, 

 about I fr feet high, tinged with red ; leaves dark green, glossy, 

 biternatc with large, broad, serrate leaflets : flowers reddish-white, 

 with both bracts and bractcules. — Rocky coasts in Scotland and 

 Northumberland. — V\. July. Perennial. 



{S/'igncI, Men, i^y Bal^i-M'^ticyj. 



