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THE HISTORY OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
BY E. L. STURTEVANT. 
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' SKIRRET. Sium sisarum L. 
HIS plant seems to have been unknown to the ancients; cer- 
tainly no mention can be found of an umbillifer with 
grouped and divergent roots, the peculiarity of the Skirret alone 
among European cultivated plants of this order. In the six- 
teenth century the name siser was applied to the carrot as well as 
to the Skirret, as by Camerarius' who describes siser, the sisaron 
of the Greeks, as a correct Skirret, and under siser alterum, Ital- 
ian carota bianca, German gierlin, Spanish chirivias, French 
chervy or girolles or carottes blanche, as a carrot, and other illus- 
trations of this period and earlier might be given. Fuchsius? in 
1 Camerarius. Epitome, 1586, 2e6, 227. 
2 Fuchsius. De Stirp., 1542, 752- 
