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yellow sickly appearance. Swayne. Flowers yellowish or whitish. (Whole 
herb smooth and glaucous. Fertile plants the larger, abouj; a foot high. 
Stem often purplish. E.) 
Least Anise. (Dwarf Burnet Saxifrage. P. dioica. Linn. With. 
Willd. Sm. P. pumila. Jacq. Peucedanum minus. Bauh. Ray. Huds. 
P.pumilum. Ger. Em. E.) Mountainous pastures. Uphill, Somerset¬ 
shire. St. Vincent’s Rock, behind the Hot Well House, Bristol. (In 
pastures near the church of Athboy, county of Meath, in great quantities. 
Dr. Wade. E.) P. May—June.* * * § 
A'PIUM.f Involucr. one leaf: Petals equal, with inflexed 
points : Fruit small, gibbous, ribbed. 
A. grave'olens. (Leafits of the stem-leaves wedge-shaped: stem 
furrowed : involucellum none. E.) 
Kniph. 5 — Ludw. 180— FI. Dan. 790— Blackw. 443—( E. Bot. 1210. E.) — 
Ger. 862— 11. Ox. ix. 9. 8— Fuchs. 744— J. B. iii. 2. 100 —Trag. 464— 
Pet. 26. 12— Matth. 768— Dod. 695— Lob. Obs. 405. 2, and Ic. i. 707. 1— 
Ger. Em. 1014.— Park. 926. 
Involucrum often wanting. Linn. Stem smooth, shining, deeply furrowed. 
Umbels > some sessile, others on long fruit-stalks, appearing as if proliferous. 
Woodw. Root-leaves winged. Leajits divided into three lobes, serrated. 
Umbels , spokes five to eleven; those of the umbellules eleven to sixteen. 
Petals white. ( Styles permanent, wide-spreading, but not reflexed. Sm. 
Stems branched, spreading, one to two feet high; plant pale yellowish 
green. E.) 
Smallage. (Wild Celery. Welsh: Halogan; Pertly s yr hel. E.) 
Ditches and marshes. Salt marshes near Yarmouth, and in the midland 
counties. Mr. Woodward. Bog near Marazion, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. 
Moors, Sansom Fields, Worcester. Stokes. Side of the river opposite St. 
Vincent’s Rocks. (Rimrose Bridge, between Bootle and Crosby, and 
Park shore, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock and Mr. Shepherd. Hackney, 
near Chudleigh. Rev. J. P. Jones. In water-courses on the marsh at 
Northfleet, in great quantities. Salisbury. In the castle-moat, Beau¬ 
maris. Welsh Bot. Ditches behind Musselburgh. Parsons, in Lightf. E.) 
B. Aug.| 
(A. Petroselinum, Common Parsley, a native of Sardinia, has little preten¬ 
sion to be considered indigenous to Britain, though admitted as such by 
some Botanists. E.) 
iEGOPO'BIUM.^ Fruit egg-oblong, ribbed, tapering at each 
end: [Summits simple. E.) 
* (Its qualities somewhat resemble those of the preceding. E.) 
+ (The favourite of bees, as some choose to interpret the word ; but the pourquoi is not 
obvious. E.) 
t The root in its wild state, when it grows near water, is fetid, acrid, and noxious ; 
(and is believed to have proved fatal in various instances ; E.) but when cultivated in dry 
ground it loses these properties; and the root and the lower part of the leaf-stalks and stem, 
blanched by covering them up with earth, are eaten raw, boiled in soups, or stewed. It is 
then called Celery , (of which a red variety is much esteemed in the London markets, E.) 
and supposed to be hurtful to persons subject to nervous complaints. It is certainly a good 
antiscorbutic. The seeds yield an essential oil. Sheep and goats eat the plant. Cows are 
not fond of it. Horses refuse it. 
§ (From a<§, ouvog, a goat, and 7ro$ewv, a little foot: whence Goat- weed, rather than 
Gout-weed. E.) 
