514? 287. Conium. 45. UMBELLIFERJE. PL ex. cal. 
Walls and shady places; biennial; Jane and July. 
Root white; stem 4 feet high, shining, much branched at 
top ; leaves shining, bald, of a strong odour ; umlells and 
umbellules many-rayed. — Root supposed poisonous, but 
Petiver, after seeing Mr. Henley eat between three and 
four ounces, eat himself half an ounce without any ill ef- 
fect, it tasted like celeri ; leaves in powder narcotic, alterant, 
used in cancer, chronic rheumatism, and obstinate ulcers; 
inspissated juice used for the same purposes, and in go- 
norrhoea, but is less efficacious than the powdered leaves. 
Chaorophyllum temulentum, 275, 2, having a spotted stalk 
is sometimes used for it ; and the extract is also sold for 
that of conium maculatum. 
XXIII. 288. BUNIUM. Dioscorides. Earth-nut. 
Involucrum 1, 3, or many-leaved ; involucella many- 
leaved ; calyx 0 ; petals nearly equal, broad, heartshape, 
nicked, edge inflected ; lacinule short, blunt, inflected ; fruit 
oblong, ellipsoid, crowned; akenium linear, elliptical, 
straight but rather bent at top, 5-ribbed; ribs streaked or 
folded, with a narrow edge on each side; vallecules wrin- 
kled, convex, 1-vittated; vittse rather broad, short, kneed, 
wrinkled ; spermapodium 2-cut. 
1. Bunium majus. Great earth-nut. 
Stem straight at bottom, leafy; leaves uniform, tripinnate, 
bald ; petioles nearly equal ; involucrum many-leaved ; fruit 
nearly cylindrical, thick at top ; style reflex, falling off*. 
Bulbocastanon majus, Ger. em. 1064,2. 
Nucula terrestris major, Park. 893. 
Bunium Bulbocastanum, Lin. S. P. 349. 
Bunium minus, Gouan Illnstr. 10. 
Pimpinella Bulbocastanum, Stokes Hot. Mat. Med. 147. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; May. 
Tubers roundish; stem branched, bald; leaves triternate; 
lobes linear, cuts 3 or 0 ; umbells terminal, many-rayed ; 
involucrum shorter than the rays. 
2. Bunium minus. Lesser earth-nut. 
Stem flexuous, small and leafless at bottom ; leaves tripin- 
nate, nearly sessile, slender, linear; involucrum 0, 2, or 
3-leaved ; fruit ovate ; style spreading, persistent. 
