Meum
(from Meon, the old Greek name used by Dioscorides). Bawd-money. ORD. Umbelliferoe. A monotypic genus, the species being an elegant, hardy, aromatic, tufted, glabrous, perennial. It thrives in borders, on banks, and in the rock garden, in almost any ordinary soil. Propagated by divisions. M. athamanticum (Athamanta-like).* Spignel. fl. white, in rather large, compound, terminal umbels; involucre, when present, of a few linear leaves, often altogether wanting. May. fr. narrow, but not beaked, with the primary ridges winged. l. much divided into numerous thread-like segments. Stems leafy, channelled, slightly branched. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Mountains of Western Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 606.)