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21. Silaus Besser. Pepper-Saxifrage. (Tab. II. f. 21.) 
Fruit oval. Carpels with 5 sharp, somewhat winged ribs, 
with many vittce in the interstices. Cal. obsolete. Pet. ob- 
ovate, subemarginate with an inflected point, appendaged ; or 
sessile and truncate at the base. (Partial involucre of many 
leaves.) — Scarcely different from Ligusticum, except, in its yel- 
lowish, nearly entire not acutely emarginate petals, truncate 
and sessile at the base. — Name of dubious origin ; it was ap- 
plied by Pliny to some herb. 
1. S . pratensis Besser ( Meadow P.) ; leaves tripinnate, leaflets 
linear-lanceolate opposite, general involucre of 1 or 2 leaves. 
Peucedanum Silaus L. : E.B. t. 2142. 
Pastures and meadows, not unfrequent in England. Near Oxenford 
Castle and Kelso, Scotland. 2JL . 6 — 9. — Stem 1 — 2 feet high. 
Partial umbels small, distant. Flowers pale yellow. Whole plant 
fetid when bruised, apparently rejected hy cattle. 
22. Meum Tourn. Spignel. (Tab. II. f. 22.) 
Fruit elliptical. Carpels with 5 prominent, carinate, equal 
ribs, with many vittce in the interstices. Cal.-teeth obsolete. 
Pet. entire, elliptical, the point incurved. (Partial involucre of 
many leaves.) — Name : supposed to be the fiyov of Dioscorides. 
1. hi. Athamanticum Jacq. (.S'., Men, or Bald-Money) ; all the 
leaflets multipartite, segments bristle-shaped. E. B. t. 2249. 
Athamanta Meum L. 
Dry alpine pastures, in the north of England and Scotland, 
especially in the Highlands, frequent. 6,7. — I loot fusiform, 
eaten by the Highlanders as an aromatic and carminative : at its 
summit are the fibrous remains of former years’ leaves. Leaves long, 
dark-green, doubly pinnate. Flowers yellowish. — Remarkable for 
its setaceo-multifid leaf and powerfully aromatic smell. 
23. Crithmum Linn. Samphire. (Tab. II. f. 23.) 
Fruit elliptical. Carpels spongy, with 5 elevated, sharp, 
somewhat winged ribs, and, as well as the loose seed, abundantly 
marked with vittce. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet elliptical, entire, 
involute. (Involucres of many leaves.) — Name Iroin xpid?;, 
barley ; from the resemblance between the fruit of this plant 
and a grain of barley. 
1. C. maritimum L. {Sea S.) : E. B. t. 819. 
Rocks by the sea-side. Rare in Scotland ; on the coast of th 
Solway Frith, and Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. I/.. 5 — 8. — Whole 
plant very succulent, pale green. Leaves bi-triternate ; leaflets lanceo- 
late fleshy. Leaves of the involucre lanceolate. 
