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LIGUSTICUM scoticum.
Scottish LovaOse.
PENT ANURIA Digynia.
G en. C har. JnmL general and partial. Fruit oblong,
with 3 ribs on each side. Corolla uniform. Petals
rolled in, entire. Cal. of 5 teeth.
Spec. Char. Leaves twice ternate.
Syn. Ligusticum scoticum. Linn. Sp. Pi. 359. Sm. Fl.
Brit. 309. Huds. 117. With. 296. Hull. 62.
L ig h tf 159. Fl. Dan. t. 207.
L. Scoticum, apii folio. Rail Syn. 214.
F o r wild specimens of this rare plant we are obliged to our
worthy friend Alexander M ‘Leay, Esq. Secretary to the Lin-
nean Society, who gathered them among rocks on the shore
near Wick in Caithness, the northern extremity of Britain, in
August last. We have formerly observed the same about the
Trith of Forth, and Lightfoot mentions it as frequent on the
shores of the Western Islands. In Skye it is called Shunis, and
is eaten both in a crude and boiled state. We suspect our
southern epicures would not thank us for its introduction
among them, the whole plant, though aromatic, being highly
acrid, and to our taste nauseous in a great degree.
_ The root 1S -shaped, very warm and pungent. Stem upright,
leafy, a little branched at the top, striated, smooth.
Leaves alternate, doubly ternate, the uppermost only simply
so ; the leaflets broad, somewhat rhomboid, acute, fleshy,
smooth, dark-green j entire at the base, deeply serrated in the
Upper part. Common footstalk winged at the base, mostly
purplish. Umbels terminal, large, erect, smooth. General
mvolucrum of 4 or 5 lanceolate leaves; partial of several
smaller ones. Petals regular, slightly reddish. Fruit longer
and more distinctly winged than in L . cornuliense, t. 683.