". Ligusticum levisticum L. This plant is yet to be rarely found in gardens. At the present day, says , Lovage is almost exclusively used in the manufacture of confectionery; formerly the leaf stalks and bottoms of the stems were eaten, blanched like celery. ... The whole plant has a strong, sweetish, aromatic odor, and a warm, pungent taste, and is probably grown now in America, as in 1806, rather as a medicinal than as a culinary herb. It appears to have known to in 1536, who calls it Levisticum officinarum, and www only seen in gardens by Chabræus ... in 1677."