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8. SIUM, WATER PARSNIP. (Old name, of obscure meaning.) % 



S. cicutaef61ium, Gmelin. The common species, in water and wet 

 places ; tall, smooth, with grooved-angled stems, simply pinnate leaves, 

 the long leaflets linear or lanceolate, very sharply serrate and taper- 

 pointed, and globular fruit with wing-like, corky ribs ; flowers all sum- 

 mer. Root and herbage poisonous. 



9. FCENICULTJM, FENNEL. (Name from the Latin fcenum, hay.) 



F. officinale, All. (or P. vulgare). Common P. Cult, from Eu. for 

 the sweet-aromatic foliage and fruit ; stout, very smooth herb, 4°-6° 

 high ; leaves with very numerous and slender, thread-shaped divisions ; 

 large umbel with no involucre or involucels ; fruit J' or y long, in late 

 summer. If. 



10. CICUTA, WATER HEMLOCK. (Ancient Latin name of the 

 Hemlock.) Flowers summer. % 



C. maculata, Linn. Spotted Cowbane, Musquash Root, Beaver 

 Poison. Tall, smooth stem, sometimes streaked with purple, but seldom 

 really spotted ; leaflets lance- oblong, coarsely toothed or sometimes cut- 

 lobed, veiny, the main veins mostly running into the notches ; fruit 

 aromatic when bruised ; root a deadly poison. Common. 



11. APIUM, CELERY. (Old Latin name.) 



A. graved ens, Linn. A strong-scented, acrid, if not poisonous plant, 

 of Eu. ; of which the Garden Celery is a state rendered bland, and the 

 base of the leafstalks enlarged, succulent and edible when blanched, 

 through long cultivation ; leaves divided into 3-7 coarse and wedge- 

 shaped, cut or lobed leaflets or divisions ; umbels and fruits small. Var. 

 rapaceum, Celeriao, Turnip-rooted Celery, is a state with the root 

 enlarged and edible. ® @ 



12. CARUM, CARAWAY, etc. (Name perhaps from the country, 

 Caria.) (Lessons, Fig. 208.) 



§1. Caraway, with finely pinnately compound leaves, and white flowers. 



C. C&rui, Linn. Garden Caraway. Cult, from Eu., for the " caraway 

 seed," the oblong, highly aromatic fruit ; stem leaves with slender but short, 

 thread-shaped, divisions. This and the next occasionally spontaneous. 



§ 2. Parsley, with coarser leaves and greenish flowers. 



C. Petrosellnum, Benth. (or Petroselinum sativum). Parsley. Cult, 

 from Eu., especially the curled-leaved state, for the pleasant- flavored 

 foliage, used in cookery, chiefly the root leaves, which have ovate and 

 wedge-shaped, 3-lobed and cut-toothed divisions ; fruit ovate. @ 



13. LEVISTICUM, LOVAGE. (Ancient Latin name.) One species. % 



L. officinale, Koch. Garden L. Cult, in old gardens, from Eu. ; a tall, 

 very smooth, sweet, aromatic herb, with large ternately or pinnately 

 decompound leaves, coarse wedge-oblong and cut or lobed leaflets, a 

 thick root, and small, many-flowered umbels. 



14. ANGELICA. {Angelic, from reputed cordial properties.) Flowers 



summer. 2/ 



A. atropurpurea, Linn. Moist deep soil N. ; strong-scented, smooth, 

 with very stout, dark-purple stem, 8°-6° high, large leaves ternately com- 



