Meum
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Meum (an old Greek name). Umbelliferae. Spignel. One perennial herb, differing botanically from Ligusticum mostly in technical characters of fr., sometimes cult.for the ornamental delicate foliage. M. athamanticum, Jacq. (Athamanta Meum, Linn.), of mountains in Eu., a glabrous tufted aromatic plant with sts. 1-2 ft.: lvs. mostly radical (cauline lvs. very few, small and less divided), pinnately decompound, the segms. multifid and wide-spreading: fls. white, whitish yellow, or pink, in many-rayed terminal compound umbels of medium size; petals acute, narrowed at base, entire but usually with an incurved point; bracts of involucre few and narrow: fr. 1/3 in. long, not beaked, the carpels with 5 prominent ribs. The rootstock is said sometimes to be eaten. Prop. by seeds and division.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963