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I prepared this for your father. I spent a whole moon extracting it from the wild apium, and one drop of it will kill like a lightning flash. If some day you fall vanquished, drink and die before your people behold their chieftain with a hand stricken off and serving the enemy as a slave." Alorcus slipped the chain over his head, concealing the heirloom in his breast.
The season of sowing celery is in April. We have a variety of this, which is red, and much esteemed. CELERIAC. This is a variety of the Apium graveolens. It is hollow in the stem, and the roots are particularly large: although this is much used in Germany, it is not so much esteemed by us as the celery. CHAMPIGNON. Agaricus pratensis.
Cultione agri or something of the kind might have been expected. The collocation of appetentem with occupatum in 56 is no less awkward. FACIT: n. on 3 facimus. RES RUSTICAE LAETAE SUNT: 'the farmer's life is gladdened'. APIUM: this form is oftener found in the best MSS., of prose writers at least, than the other form apum, which probably was not used by Cic. OMNIUM: = omnis generis.
Cullen has for many years commended the making it from the unripe seeds; and this mode the College of Physicians at Edinburgh have thought proper to adopt in their late Pharmacopoeia. Similar Plants. Aethusa Cynapium; Apium Petroselium; Oenanthe crocata; Oe. fistulosa; Phellandrium aquaticum. CORIANDRUM sativum. CORIANDER. The Seeds.
The Early Horn Carrot may likewise be sown in August, and is good all winter. CELERY. Apium graveolens. Celery is now so generally known as to render a description of the plant useless; nor need it be told, that the stalks blanched are eaten raw, stewed, &c. It should be used with great caution, if grown in wet land, as it has been considered poisonous in such cases.
Naturalists, that treat of plants and animals, have found the benefit of this way: and he that has had occasion to consult them will have reason to confess that he has a clearer idea of APIUM or IBEX, from a little print of that herb or beast, than he could have from a long definition of the names of either of them.
If a piece of the root, the size of a pea, be placed against the tooth, it instantly causes the saliva to flow from the surrounding glands, and gives immediate relief in all cases of that malady. APIUM Petroselium. COMMON PARSLEY. The Root.
The water-courses on the marsh at Northfleet have great quantities of the Apium graveolens growing in them. Plantae affines. Cultivated celery differs from it when young, first in the shape and size of its roots. The Oenanthe is perennial, and has a large root, which on being cut is observed to be full of juice, which exudes in form of globules.
Nec vero segetibus solum et pratis et vineis et arbustis res rusticae laetae sunt, sed hortis etiam et pomariis, tum pecudum pastu, apium examinibus, florum omnium varietate. Nec consitiones modo delectant, sed etiam insitiones, quibus nihil invenit agri cultura sollertius. XVI. 55 Possum persequi permulta oblectamenta rerum rusticarum, sed ea ipsa quae dixi sentio fuisse longiora.
He had a garland on his head, woven of the plant of death, the strong-scented Apium or celery. In his mouth he had an obol as Charon's fee. Pericles uttered a prayer in an undertone, without showing especially deep sorrow, for he had gone through much, and learnt to suffer. "Two sons the gods have taken from me. Are they enough to atone?" "What have you to atone for?" asked Aspasia.
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