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

 nately decompound with crowded bristle-like segments ; umbels 

 compound, bracteate ; bracts linear ; flowers yellowish ; -petals 



narrowed at both ends, in- 

 flexed. (Name, the Greek 

 for this or some allied plant.) 

 1. M. athamdnticum (Spig- 

 nel, Meu, or Bald-money). — 

 Well distinguished by its 

 bipinnate leaves cut into 

 numerous crowded, acute, 

 bristle-like segments. — Dry 

 mountainous pastures in the 

 north. The whole plant, and 

 especially the root, which is 

 eaten by the Highlanders, is 

 highly aromatic, with a 

 flavour like Melilot, which it 

 communicates to milk and 

 butter when the cows feed on 

 its leaves in spring. — " 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. Haloscias (Lovage). 

 — Smooth plants ; leaves 1 — 

 3-ternately pinnate; umbels 

 compound, bracteate ; petals 

 white or pink, notched, with 

 a short claw and long inflexed 

 tip ; fruit short, somewhat 

 winged ; seeds loose. (Name 

 from the Greek scias, an 

 umbel, halos, of the sea.) 



1. H. scdticum (Scotch Lov- 

 age). — Stem little branched, 

 about 1^ feet high, tinged with red ; leaves dark green, glossy, 

 biternate with large, broad, serrate leaflets ; flowers reddish-white, 

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

 Northumberland. — Fl. July. Perennial. 



MfoM atham/.nticum 

 (Spignel, Meu, or Bald-Money). 



