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Alexanders
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Alexanders'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/alexanders.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Alexanders'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/alexanders.html. 1910.