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ALEXANDERS (botanical name, Smyrnium Olusatrum, natural order Umbelliferae)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 567 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALEXANDERS (botanical name, Smyrnium Olusatrum, natural order Umbelliferae) , a stout herbaceous plant with a furrowed, much-branched
stem
  1-3 ft. high, and large compound leaves with broad sheathing stalks, and broad, cut or lobed segments. The small yellow
flowers
  are borne in compound umbels. The plant is a native of the Mediterranean region, and was formerly cultivated as a pot-
herb
 . It is now found apparently wild in
Great
  Britain and
Ireland
 , growing in
waste
  places, especially near the sea and amongst ruins.
In
England
  the plant is sometimes popularly termed " alisander "; in
North
  America Thaspium aureum is sometimes called " alexanders." " Alexander's foot," botanical name Anacyclus Pyrethrum, is the
pellitory
  of
Spain
 .


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