Plants

ALEXANDERS.--This plant is the Smyrnium olustratum of science, and is

used in this country in the same way in which celery is. It is a native

of Great Britain, and is found in its wild state near the seacoast. It

received its name from the Italian "herba Alexandrina," and is supposed

to have been originally brought from Alexandria; but, be this as it

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