This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A very elegant small-growing 'plant, introduced by Mr. Wm. Bull from the South Sea Islands. The leaves form a crispy head of foliage, and are very elegantly divided, the leaflets long-stalked and more or less deeply lobed, the edges notched with more or less upcurved teeth. It is a plant of pleasing character, having somewhat the aspect of P. laciniatum, but being many degrees more finely cut.

Panax plumatum.
 
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