THE PARSLEY FAMILY 
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on the main flowering stalk (compound umbel). Bracts few round the entire cluster, many round 
each little flower cluster. Sepals 5, entirely combined with the seedcase, without teeth ; petals 5, 
nearly equal, with the tips bent inwards, apparently notched ; stamens 5 ; carpels 2. Fruit oval, 
not flattened, with 10 sharp ridges, of 2 united cases (cremocarps), each containing 1 hanging 
seed. Herbs with leaves divided to the midrib into several pairs of leaflets and one terminal one, 
which are similarly sub-divided (bi-imparipinnate), and the leaf-stalks sheathing at the base. 
Bald-Money or Spignel, Meu. (Meum Athamantieum, Jacq.) — The only British 
species (as just described). The flowers white, often tinged with pink, the clusters terminal and 
not large ; the stem 9 inches to 3 feet high, erect and slightly branched, and the leaves divided into 
hair-like leaflets. [ Plate 57. 
Rare. Mountain pastures in Wales, the north of England, and Scotland. June — July. Perennial. 
LOVAGE. (LIGUSTICUM, LINN.) — Flowers white or pink, in clusters of shortly-stalked 
flowers, all rising from the same point on longer stalks, which longer stalks have one common 
starting-point on the main flowering-stalk (compound umbels). Bracts varying. Calyx with or 
without 5 teeth ; petals 5, equal, with the tip bent inwards, apparently notched ; stamens 5 ; 
carpels 2. Fruit oval or oblong, not flattened, with 10 sharp, almost winged ribs, composed of 2 
united cases, each containing 1 hanging seed (cremocarp). Plants of various habits, with leaves 
divided to the base into 3 leaflets, which are similarly divided and even sub-divided. 
Scottish Lovage. (Ligusticum scoticum, Linn.)— The only British species (as above 
described. The flowers white, ^tinged with pink ; 2-3 bracts round the entire cluster, and many 
narrow ones round each little flower cluster ; the stem 1-3 feet high, erect, furrowed, hollow, 
slightly branched ; the leaves divided into 3 stalked leaflets, which are also divided into 3 broadly 
egg-shaped, toothed, and sometimes lobed leaflets ; and the leaf-stalks sheathing at the base. 
Rare, local. Rocky and sandy sea-shores in Northumberland and Scotland. July. Perennial. 
FALSE MILK PARSLEY. (SELINUM, LINN .) — Flowers white, in clusters of shortly-stalked 
flowers, all rising from the same point on longer stalks, which longer stalks have one common starting- 
point on the main flowering-stalk (compound umbels) ; bracts o round the entire cluster, many 
surrounding each little flower cluster; calyx with 5 teeth; petals 5 ; stamens 5 ; carpels 2. Fruit 
oval, flattened with 10 winged ridges, composed of 2 united cases, each containing 1 hanging 
seed (cremocarp). A herb with leaves divided and sub-divided to the midrib into several pairs of 
leaflets and 1 terminal one (bi-imparipinnate), all deeply lobed into narrow pointed segments. 
False Milk Parsley. (Selinum Carvifolia, Linn.) — The only British species (as just 
described. The flowers white, in large, flat, terminal clusters ; the stem 2-4 feet high, erect, solid, 
and furrowed, and the leaves large. 
Very rare. Moist, shady places in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. July — August. Perennial. 
HOG’S-FENNEL. (PEUCEDANUM, LINN.) — Flowers yellow, white, or greenish, in clusters of 
shortly-stalked flowers, all rising from the same point on longer stalks, which longer stalks have 
one common starting-point on the main flowering-stalk (compound umbels) ; bracts various ; calyx 
usually with 5 teeth ; petals 5, with the tips bent inwards, entire or apparently notched ; stamens 
5 ; carpels 2. Fruit oval or oblong, flattened, composed of 2 united, 3-ridged cases surrounded by 
a flat wing, each containing 1 hanging seed (cremocarp). Plants with divided leaves, and leaf- 
stalks sheathing at the base. 
