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We call it, in its wild (late, Smallage; 
in our gardens Cellery. It is probably 
the eXsioreXivov of the Greeks; for their 
c-eXivov the Latin writers always tran- 
flate apium. From the fituation in 
which you have found it, we may, I 
think, rationally fuppofe it to be Vir- 
gil's Apium. 
Quoque modo potts gauderent intuba rivis, 
Et virides aplo ripe? 
There grows the very Infubum juft 
mentioned. I mean that plant with 
large blue flowers, like wheels, grow- 
ing, without foot-ftalks, on the fide 
of a zig-zag ftem, which is firm and 
about two feet high. If you exa- 
mine the calyx you will find it dou- 
ble; the interior formed of 8 fcales, 
the exterior of 5, which are fringed. 
The petals are in number from 16 
to 20, with 5 notches at the extre- 
mity of each. Linnaus calls it C*- 
chorium intybus. It is of the Clafs 
and Order Syngenefia Polygamia tequa- 
lis: in Englifh, Succory. I take it 
\Q be the fpecies of re^s, which Dio- 
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