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C O R I A N D R U M fativum.
Coriander.
P E N T A N D R I A Digynia.
G en. C har. Corolla radiate; petals indexed, cloven.
General Involucrum of one leaf; partial ones going
but half way round. Fruit fphasrical.
Spec. Char. The two feeds combining to make one
uniform globe.
Syn . Coriandrum fativum. Linn. Sp. PI. 367. Hudf.
FI. An. 123. With. Pot. Arr. 30a.
Coriandrum. Rail Syn. 221.
C o R I A N D E R is fuppofcd to be a native of the fouth of
Europe, and, from having been cultivated in England as a
medicinal plant, to have become naturalized in fome parts of
the kingdom, particularly in fields about Ipfwich.
The root is annual; lower leaves lobed and cut; upper ones
in very fine linear alternate fegments; flowers white or reddifh,
appearing in June; and the feeds are ripe in July and Auguft.
The aromatic flavour of the latter is agreeable to molt palates;
and we are obliged to Dr. Withering, for refcuing them from
the charge of unwholefomenefs ( Bot. A r r .). All the reft of
the plant is, when bruifed, abominably fcetid.