PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Meum. 
393 
(ME'UM.* * Fr. elliptic-oblong, with equidistant ribs; inter¬ 
stices flattish: Cal. none: Pet . obovate, with an in- 
flexed point, equal: Styles tumid at the base, short, 
recurved: FI. recept. none : FI. united, all perfect, regu¬ 
lar. Sm. E.) 
(M. athamanticum. Leafits all in numerous, deep, bristle-like seg¬ 
ments : bracteas both general and partial.t Sm. E.) 
Dicks. II. S. — (Hook. FI. Lond. 182— E. Bot. 2249. E.)— Ludw. 66— Jacq. 
Austr. 303— Riv. Pent. 63. Meum. — Clus. ii. 198. 2— Dod. 305— Lob. Ohs. 
449. 2, and Ic. i. 777. l—Ger. Em. 1052. 1— Park. 888. 1 —H. Ox. ix. 2, 
row 1, Jig. 2— Blackw. 525— Matth. 24— Ger. 895— Tourn. 165— Fuchs. 
231— J. B. iii. 2. 11— Trag. 445— Kniph. 4. 
(Root woody. Stem one to two feet high, upright, generally undivided, 
naked, scored. Flowers white or reddish, uniform. Calyx seldom visi¬ 
ble. Petals spear-shaped, bent inward at the points. Fruit rather com¬ 
pressed, with sharp ribs. FI. Brit. E.) Involucrum none, or but rarely, 
of one leaf. Involucellum lateral. Linn. 
Spignel. Meu. Spignel Cicely. (Bald-money. Gaelic: Muilcionn. 
Athamanta Meum. Linn. Ligusticum Meum. Crantz. Hook. Scot. JEthusa 
Meum. Linn. Syst. Veg. With. Willd. Meum. Ray. Ger. Dod. Matth. 
Gamer. Riv. Seseli Meum. Scop. M. athamanticum. Jacq. Huds. Dicks. 
Spreng. Gsertn. Sm. Hook. Frequent in the Highlands of Scotland. Loch 
Lomond, and north side of Loch Ness. Mr. Murray, in Hook. Scot. E.) 
Mountainous pastures in the northern counties. Near Dolgelle, Merio¬ 
nethshire. In a field by the fourth mile-stone leading from Kendal to 
Appleby, but not frequent in Westmoreland. Mr, Gough. In Conistone, 
Furness Fells. Mr. Jackson. (Near Thockerington, Northumberland; 
and at Bristow bank, near Keswick. Mr. Winch. E.) P. May4 
(M. fgenic'ulum. Leaves triply pinnate : leafits awl-shaped, drooping: 
bracteas none. Sm. 
E. Bot. 1208. E.)— Mill. III. — Sheldr. 15— Woodv. 160— Riv. Pent. 61. 
Foenicul. — Tourn. 164— Dod. 297— Lob. Obs. 448 —and Ic. i. 775. 2— Ger. 
Em. 1032— Park. 884— Blackw. 288— H. Ox. ix. 2. row 1. 1— Lonic. 234 
— Fuchs. 501— Trag. 448—-*/. B. iii. 2. 3— Ger. 877. 1. 
From three to five feet high; bluish green. Flowers golden yellow. (Root 
tap-shaped. Umbels broad, flat, with numerous angular rays. Involu¬ 
crum and Involucellum entirely wanting. Style very short, with an egg- 
* (Not the Ms<oi/ of Dioscorides; but more probably derived from psiov , (minus), from the 
extreme fineness of its leaves. E.) 
*j* (Smith adduces the presence of bracteas , (involucra and involucella) , in this plant, as an 
instance of their uncertainty for generic character. Vid. vol. 1. p. 172. E.) 
t Linnaeus says that the radical fibres of this plant form the basis of the Calcuhts 
AEgagropila, but though I have examined several of these balls, I never found it so. Mr. 
Gough. The roots and seeds are aromatic and acrid. They have been used as stomachics 
and carminatives. Sometimes they are given to cure tertians ; and there is no doubt but 
they will often answer as well as pepper, and other acrid aromatics. (Where this herb 
abounds in the Highlands, the milk and butter partake of its peculiar Melilot-like taste in 
the spring, and a strong infusion of it gives cheese the flavour of the Swiss Chapziegar, so 
as hardly to be distinguished from that brought from abroad. E. Bot. E.) 
