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L I G 



leaflets %vedge-fliaped, cut, fmooth. General involucrum of 

 two leaves, fomewhat leafy. Ribs of the feeds membranous, 

 fmooth. — Introduced into Kew garden about the year ijSo. 

 It is faid to be a hardy perennial, flowering there in July and 

 Auguft ; but its native country is unknown. 



10. L. peregnnum . Parfley-leaved Lovage. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 360." Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 3. 13. t. 18. — Leaves repoiit- 

 edly compound ; leaflets three-cleft, wedge-fhaped, cut. 

 Seeds ovate, obtufely ribbed. Umbels terminal. — Native 

 of Portugal i gathered by the late M. Brouffonet on the 

 rock of Gibraltar, flowering in May. The root is biennai. 

 The whole plant has the appearance, even the tafte and 

 fmell, of common parfjey, but is in every part ftouter and 

 more rigid. There can be no doubt of its clofe affinity to 

 that plant ; and great violence is offered to nature in referring 

 one to Ligujlicum, the other to j4piiim. Yet even the 

 Bauhins diitinguifhed them as fpecies. 



11. Y.. d'tffufum. Spreading Lovage. Roxburgh MSS. 

 — Leaves twice compound ; fegments wedge-lhaped, de- 

 current, three-toothed. Seeds ovate, ftrongly ribbed. 



L^mbels on lateral italks, oppofite to the leaves Native of 



the Eaft Indies ; given by Dr. Roxburgh, with the above 

 name, to lord vifcount Valentia, to whom we are obliged 

 for the fpecimen. Its habit is fo like the laft, x\\^ fruit being 

 of the fame (hape, though more ftrongly ribbed, that it 

 confirms the genus of that fpecies. It differs in having 

 fmaller, lefs compounded, and blunter neatly tootlied leaves, 

 llrongly decurrent in their fegments, and umbels on folitary, 

 fimple, lateral ftaiks. The invo/ucral leaves are of a fuffi- 

 cient number, lanceolate, long, narrow, pointed, with mem- 

 branous edges. Ribs of the JieJs prominent and fomewhat 

 crifped, not membranous. 



12. L. Meum. BrilUe-leaved Lovage, Spignel, Men, 

 or Bald-money. Crantz. Auftr. fafc. 3. 82. Roth. Germ. 

 V. I. 123. V. 2. 322. (Meum athamanticum ; .)acq. Auilr. 



V. 4. 2. t. 303. Sm. Fl. Brit. 308. Engl. Bot. t. 2249. 

 Athamanta Meum; Linn. Sp. PI. 35'3. Hudf. 116. 

 CEthufa Meum ; Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 287. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. I. 1447.) —Leaflets all in numerous, deep, briftle-like 

 fegments. — Native of mountains in Italy, Spam, Germany, 

 Switzerland and Britain, flowering in May. The propriety 

 of referring it to this genus was hinted in Fl. Brit, and 

 Crantz and Roth had previoufly fo arranged it. Where fo 

 many difl'erent opinions have been ftarted, the genus cannot 

 be fuppofed very clear, but we venture to remove the plant 

 hither. Its rOot is powerfully aromatic, with a flavour like 

 melilot, of which the herb partakes ; and an infufion of the 

 ■plant is faid to give cheefe the talle of the Swifs Chap-z.le- 

 £ar. The finely divided leavus dillinguifh it readily. The 

 Jfoiuers are white, witii a blufli occafionally. Fruit oblong, 

 often curved, coloured ; its ribs llrong, not membranous, 

 even, not crifped. 



13. L. baJear'uum. Balearic Lovage. Linn. Mant. 

 CI 8. — Radical leaves pinnate, rounded, ferrated ; the lower 

 leaflets auricled : llem-leaves pinnate, narrow, cut. Fruit 

 oblong. — Native ef the Balearic iflands, as well as of Italy 

 and Spain. M. Bronflonet gathered it at Gibraltar in 

 May. Linmus had this plant in the Upfal garden, but lays 

 it did not ripen feed, fo that he was doubtftd of the genus. 

 It appears to us rather to belong to Athamanta. The 

 joungfruit is ftriated rather than ribbed ; the involucral 

 leaves very flender, awl-fhaped, not membranous. The kaves 

 bave fomewhat of the afpect of Pajlinaca fativa in a wild 

 ftate. The umbels are wide, but (lender, yellow. 



14. L Gingidwm. New Zeeland Lovage. Forll. Prod. 

 •22. Willd. n 12. (Gingidium montanum ; Forll. Gen. 



21.) — Leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate, crenate ; oblique and 

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entire at t!ie bafe.— Native of New Zeeland. Its afpect i' 

 not unlike Stum angiijli folium, but the umbels are axillary or 

 terminal, and the leafett very finely, rather (harply, crenate, 

 all broad and ovate. 



1 5. L.. longifolium. Long-Icaved Lovage. Willd. n.i^ 

 — " Leaves twice ternate ; the radical ones doubly com- 

 pounded ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, entire." — Native of Si- 

 beria. Prof. Willdtnow faw a dried fpecimen. We know 

 this fpecies by his account only. He cites the PcuceJanum 

 majiis iW/'cHH; of Morilon, fed. 9. t. 15. f. i, (at the bottom,) 

 as feeming to agree with his plant — The leajlels are ftalked, 

 linear, entire, tapering at each e.\tremity. iix or feven inches 

 long, and three lines wide. General involucrum wanting 1 

 partial of many fetaceous leaves. 



We have, in the above view of the genus Ligujlicum, 

 added three ipecies to his lift, although we have reduced two 

 of his into one. 



L1GU.STICUM Leviflicum, or Comm'.n Lovage, in the Ma- 

 teria Meelica. The odour of this plant is very ilrong, and 

 peculiarly ungrateful ; its tafte is warm and aromatic. It 

 abounds with a yellowifli, gummy, refinous juice, very much 

 refembling Opoponax. Its virtues are fuppofed to be fimi- 

 lar to thofe of angelica and mafter-wort in expelling flatu- 

 lencies, exciting fweat, and opening obftrudions ; and it is 

 therefore chiefly ufed in hyfterical diforders and in uterine 

 obftrudions. A teacup-ful of the juice with Rhenifh wine, 

 or a decodlion of the feeds with wine or mugw'ort water, 

 was, by Foreftus, faid to be a fecret remedy cf extraordinary 

 efficacy in flow or laborious parturition. Tiie leaves, eaten 

 as ialad, are accounted emmenagogiie. The root, iefs un- 

 grateful than the leaves, is faid to poflefs fimilar virtues, and 

 may be employed in powder. Woodv. Med. Bot. 



Lir,u.STicuM iMarmor, in Katural Hiflory, a name by 

 which fome authors have called the Carrara marble, the 

 marmor lunenfe of the ancients. It is a fine white marble, 

 harder than the Parian or llatuary kind, and ufed for tables, 

 chimnies, &:c. as the other for carving. See LuNjixsu 

 Marmor. 



LIGUSTRL^M, in Botany, a name found in Pliny and 

 other Latin writers, by which the oriental Cypros {Larji' ■ 

 fonia inermis) feems originally to have been intended, but 

 which is now univerfally received for our Privet. — Linn. 

 Gen. 9. Schreb. 12. Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 41. Mart. Mill. 

 Dift. v. 3. Sm. Fl. Brit. 12. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 

 v. I. 19. Tournef. t. 367. .luff. 106. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 7. 

 Girtn. t. 92. — Clafs and order, Dianclria Momgynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Sejiiarij. Linn. Jafmintcs, JulF. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, tubular, 

 very Imall ; mouth four-toothed, eredt, obtufe. Cor. of 

 one petal, funnel-ftiaped ; tube cylindrical, longer than the 

 calyx; limb ipreading, cut into four ovate fegihents. Stam. 

 Filaments two, oppolite, fimple ; anthers ereCt, alnioit as 

 long as the corolla. Fiji. Germcn fuperior, roundilh ; ilvle 

 very fhort, ftigma cloven, obtufe, thickilh. Peric. Berry 

 globote, fmooth, frigle-celled. Seeds four, convex on one 

 lide, angulated on the other. 



Obf. Gajrtncr more correcf ly defcribes Ligiijlrum a.s having 

 a two-celled berry ; the cells coated with a thin membrane, 

 having two feeds in each cell. 



Elf. Ch. Corolla four-cleft. Berry fuperior, of twu 

 cells, with two feeds in each cell. 



I. L. vulgare. Privet. Linn. Sp. PI. 10. Engl. Bot, 

 t. 7(14. Curt. I^ond. fafc. 5. t. i. — Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 obtufe, with a little point. — Not uncommon in hedges aiid 

 thickets where the foil is moift and gravelly, flowering in 



May and June, and ripening its berries in Auguft 'I'his 



Jhrub rifesto the Iwight of live or fix feet. Biimehei wand- 

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