516 290. Carum. 45. UMBELLIFERiE. PL ex. cal. 
Carum seu Careum, Raii Syn. 213, 1 ; Ger. em. 1034/ 
Carum vulgare, Park. 910. 
Carum Carui, Lin. S. P. 378. 
Seseli Carum, Scopoli Cam. 361. 
Apium Carui, Crantz Austr. 218. 
Ligusticum Carui, Roth Germ. 324. 
Seseli Carui, De Candolle FI. Fr. 4,285. 
Bunium Carui, Marsch Fl.Taur. Cauc. 1,211. 
Carraway. 
Fields and pastures, also cultivated; peren.; June, July. 
Root fusiform; stem c l feet high, bald; leaves bipinnate; 
leaflets crossed ; umhells terminal, white. — Roots superior 
to parsneps for kitchen use ; young leaves used as a pot- 
herb; seeds used to flavour cakes, to form sugar-plums, 
and, as they yield much essential oil on distillation, also to 
flavour ardent spirits and form a carminative distilled 
water. 
XXVI. 291. MEUM. Dioscorides. Spignel. 
Involucrum 0 or few-leaved, leaves cut ; involucella many- 
leaved, halved, cut or whole ; calyx scaly, toothed ; petals 
nearly equal, ovate, keeled ; lacinule very short, inflexed, 
pointed ; fruit elliptical, oblong, crowned; akenium 5-ribbed; 
ribs sharp, nearly winged ; vallecules flattish, finely streaked; 
spermapodium bristlelike, 2-cut. 
Meum Athamqniicum. Athamanlian spignel . 
Leaves 2 or tripinnate ; leaflets bristlelike, many-cut ; 
lobes very slender, bald. 
Meum, Raii Syn. 207, 1 ; Ger. em. 1052, 1. 
Meum vulgatius. Park. 888. p 
Athamanta Meum, Lin. S. P. 353. 
jEthusa Meum, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 13,237. 
Ligusticum Meum, Crantz Austr. 308. 
Carum Meum, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 138. 
Mew. Bear wort. Spicknell. Bald money. Bawd money. 
Mountainous pastures ; perennial; May. 
Root thick, woody, aromatic, fibrous at the tip ; stem 
scarcely branched, rather naked ; stipules dilated ; umhells 
many-rayed. 
XXVII. 292. LIGUSTICUM. Dioscorides. Lovage. 
Involucrum 4 or 5-leaved, unequal^ involucella many- 
leaved ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals nearly equal ; ovate, invo- 
lute; fruit oblong, crowned; akenium 5-ribbed; ribs mem- 
branaceous. 
