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  • At the shady end of the garden I have let Smyrnium perfoliatum seed about, and I am beginning to wonder if this was a good idea.

    Jolly brollies 2010

  • The acid lime-green Smyrnium perfoliatum could also mingle, bringing in another colour and texture.

    Gardens: Planting in drifts Fergus Garrett 2010

  • [313] The black pot-herb -- so called from the dark colour of its fruit -- is an umbelliferous plant, (_Smyrnium olusatrum_) or Alexanders, often found in the vicinity of abbeys, and probably therefore held in former repute by the Monks.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • _Smyrnium olusatrum_, which has been found near Baldock and Pirton; and

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

  • This plant is the Smyrnium olustratum of science, and is used in this country in the same way in which celery is.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • This plant is the Smyrnium olustratum of science, and is used in this country in the same way in which celery is.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Popping up, too, are various cow-parsley relations, smoky-leafed Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing' as well as other umbellifers: luminously lime-green-flowered Smyrnium perfoliatum and a spreading, maturing shade- and drought-tolerant colony of perennial sweet cicely Myrrhis odorata.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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