. Flowers of the field. Botany. :iS 30. Meum (Spignel).—A smooth, aromatic plant ; haves pin- nately decompound with crowded brisfle-Uke segments ; mnbels compound, bracteate ; bracts hnear; flowers yellowish; petals narrowed at both ends, in- flexed. (Name, the Greek for this or some allied plant.) I. M. alhamdnticum (Spig- nel, Meu, or Bald-money).— Well': distinguished by its bipinnate leaves cut into numerous crowded, acute, bristle-like segments.—Dry moiintainous jiastures ui the north. The whole plant, an A especially the root, which is eaten by the Highlanders, is highly ar
. Flowers of the field. Botany. :iS 30. Meum (Spignel).—A smooth, aromatic plant ; haves pin- nately decompound with crowded brisfle-Uke segments ; mnbels compound, bracteate ; bracts hnear; flowers yellowish; petals narrowed at both ends, in- flexed. (Name, the Greek for this or some allied plant.) I. M. alhamdnticum (Spig- nel, Meu, or Bald-money).— Well': distinguished by its bipinnate leaves cut into numerous crowded, acute, bristle-like segments.—Dry moiintainous jiastures ui the north. The whole plant, an A especially the root, which is eaten by the Highlanders, is highly aromatic, with a flavour hke Melilot, which it comrhunicates to milk and butter when the cows feed on its leaves in sprnig.—" Bald, or Bald-Money, is a corrup- tion of Balder, the Apollo of the Northern nations, to whom this plant was dedi- ; {Sir W. J. Hooker.) —Fl. June, July. Perennial. 31. Hal6scias (Lovage). —Sixiooth plants ; leaves 1 — 3-ternately pmnate; umbels compound, bracteate ; petals white or pink, notched, with a short claw and long inflexed tip; jruit short, somewhat winged ; seeds loose. (Name from the Greek seias, an umbel, lialos, of the sea.) \. H. scAticw)! (Scotch Lov- age*).— Stem little branched, about I fr feet high, tinged with red ; leaves dark green, glossy, biternatc with large, broad, serrate leaflets : flowers reddish-white, with both bracts and bractcules.—Rocky coasts in Scotland and Northumberland. — V\. July. {S/'igncI, Men, i^y Bal^i-M'^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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