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Skirret
Skirret (Sium Sisarum), an umbelliferous plant, native to China, which has been cultivated in England as a vegetable since 1548, but is now little known. The roots, which form the edible portion of the plant, are fasciculate tubercles, and are eaten, boiled, with butter.