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universal none. Partial none. Perianth proper, scarcely 
apparent. Corolla universal, uniform. Floscules of the disk 
abortive. Proper of five lanceolate petals, slightly bent in, 
keeled. Stamina: filaments five, simple, length of the co¬ 
rolla. Anthers simple. Pistil: germ inferior. Styles two, 
simple. Stigmas two, simple. Pericarp none. Fruit ob¬ 
long, striated, bipartile. Seeds two, lunulate, on one side 
convex, marked with three angles, flat on the other.— 
Essential Character. Petals acuminate, keeled. Fruit 
oblong, striated. 
1. Smyrnium perfoliatum, or perfoliate Alexanders.—The 
lower leaves are superdecompounded, and the leaflets are in 
threes, ovate and indented. Stem smooth, hollow, three 
feet high, dividing towards the top into two orthree branches. 
At each joint is placed one large orbicular leaf, the base of 
which is embracing; these are of a yellow colour, and their 
edges are entire. The branches are terminated by small 
umbels of yellowish flowers, on pedicels of unequal lengths. 
_Native of Candia and Italy. 
2. Smyrnium iEgyptiacum, or Egyptian Alexanders.— 
Floral leaves two, simple; cordate quite entire.—Native of 
Egypt. 
3. Smyrnium laterale, or side-flowering Alexanders.— 
Stem-leaves ternate, gashed, serrate; umbels lateral, sessile. 
--Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
4. Smyrnium olousatrum, or common Alexanders.—Stem- 
leaves ternate, petioled serrate. Root biennial, fleshy, 
branched.—Native of France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and 
Britain. 
5. Smyrnium apiifolium, or smallage-leaved Alexanders. 
—Stem-leaves wedge-shaped, obtuse, trifid, toothed. The 
stalk rises higher, and grows more erect.—Native of Crete 
or Candia. 
6. Smyrnium aureum, or golden Alexanders. — Leaves 
pinnate, serrate; hinder ternate: all the flowers fertile. Root 
perennial, black, and thick with clustered fibres.—Native of 
North America. 
7. Smyrnium integerrimum, or entire leaved Alexanders. 
—Stem-leaves doubly-ternate, quite entire. Root perennial. 
Stem a foot and a half high, even, little branched.—Native 
of Virginia. 
Propagation and Culture.— All these plants may be 
propagated by sowing their seeds upon an open spot of 
ground in August, as soon as they are ripe; for if they are 
preserved till spring, they often miscarry ; or at least do not 
come up until the second year; whereas those sown in autumn 
rarely fail of coming up in the spring, and will make much 
stronger plants than the other. 
The common sort, when cultivated for the table, should be 
treated in the following manner:— 
In the spring the plants should be hoed out, so as to leave 
them ten inches or a foot apart each way; and during the 
following summer, they must be constantly cleared from 
weeds, which, if permitted to grow among them, will draw 
them up slender, and render them good for little. In Fe¬ 
bruary following the plants will shoot up again vigorously, 
at which time the earth must be drawn up to each plant, to 
blanch them, and in three weeks after they will be fit for 
use, when they may be dug up, and the white part preserved, 
which may be stewed and eaten as celery. 
SMYRUS, in Ichthyology, a name sometimes given by 
Pliny to the fish called the Murcena myrus by Linnaeus. 
SMYTHAM, in Mineralogy, lead-ore stamped and 
pounded down, like powder or sand, to cleanse the stones 
and earth from the ore. 
SNABEDSK, a village of European Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Niznei-Novgorod, with large iron works. 
■ ■ SNACK, s. [from snatch l\ A share; a part taken by 
compact. 
• For four times talking, if one piece thou take. 
That must be cantled, and the judge go snack. Pry den. 
All my demurs but double his attacks ; 
. At last he whispers, “ Do, and we go snacks." Pope. 
A slight, hasty repast. Used in several parts of England. 
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SNA'CKET, or Sne'cket, s. The hasp of a casement 
Sherwood. 
SNA'COT, s. [acus, Lab] A fish. Ainsworth. 
SNiEFELL JOKLE, a lofty mountain of Iceland, on the 
north-west coast. It is 6800 feet in height, and more than 
the half of it is covered with perpetual snow. 
SNA'FFLE, s. [ snavel , Dutch, the nose.] A bridle 
which formerly crossed the nose; it is now used for a loose 
bit, differing from the curb bit. 
The third o’ th’ world is your’s, which with a snaffle 
You may pace easy; but not such a wife. Shakspeare. 
To SNA'FFLE, v. a. To bridle; to hold in a bridle; to 
hold to manage. 
See him snaffled ! 
See him laugh’d at! see him baffled! Fanshaw. 
SNAG, s. A jag, or sharp protuberance. Unknown. 
The coat of arms. 
Now on a naked snag in triumph born. 
Was hung on high. Pry den. 
A tooth left by itself, or standing beyond the rest; a tooth 
in contempt. 
In China none hold women sweet, 
Except their snags are black as jet: 
King Chihu put nine queens to death, 
Convict on statute, iv’ry teeth. Prior. 
SNA'GGED, or Sna'ggy, adj. Full of snags; full of 
sharp protuberances; shooting into sharp points. 
His stalking steps are stay’d 
Upon a snaggy oak, which he had torn 
Out of his mother’s bowels, and it made 
His mortal mace, wherewith his foemen he dismay’d. 
Spenser. 
Snaggy is a northern word for testy, peevish. 
SNAIL, s. Q-naegl, Saxon ; snegel, Dutch.] A slimy 
animal which creeps on plants, some with shells on their 
backs ; the emblem of slowness.—I can tell why a snail has 
a house. — Why ? — Why, to put’s head in; not to give it 
away to his daughters, and leave his horns without a case. 
Shakspeare. —A name given to a drone, from the slow motion 
of a snail. 
Why prat’st thou to thyself, and answer’st not ? 
Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! 
Shakspeare. 
SNAIL, in Ichthyology. See Liparis Nostras. 
SNA'IL-CLAVEE, or Sna'il-trefoil, s. [ trifolium, 
Lat.] An herb. 
SNAIL-LIKE, ado. In a way resembling the slowness 
of a snail. 
A pox upon referring to commissions 
I had rather hear that it were past the seals, 
You courtiers move so snail-like in your business. 
B. Jonson. 
SNAILWELL, a parish of England, in Cambridgeshire; 
3J miles north-north-west of Newmarket. 
SNAINTON, a township of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 9§ miles south-west of Scarborough. Population 
525. 
SNA1TH, a market town and parish of England, in the 
West Riding of Yorkshire. It stands on a gentle eminence, 
which rises from the southern bank of the river Aire. The 
church is an ancient building in the pointed style, remark¬ 
able only as the burial place of the ancestors of Lord Vis¬ 
count Down. The parish includes 11 townships, which 
united, contain 1133 houses, and 5095 inhabitants, of whom 
about 745 reside in the town. Market on Thursday, and 
three annual fairs for horned cattle, sheep, woollen cloth, 
linen, and cheese; 22 miles south-by-east of York, and 174 
north-by-west of London. 
SNAKE, s. [ynaca, Sax.; snake, Dutch; from the verb 
pmcan, to creep. Serenius.~\ A serpent of the oviparous 
kind, distinguished from a viper. The snake’s bite is harm¬ 
less. Snake in poetry is a general name for a serpent. 
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