304 
p. 304. with a figure and p. 305. with a description.—Mor. ox. 
sect. 9.t.7. f. 5. 
Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 
Proliferous-umbelled Water-dropwort. 
1739. Pl. 14 to 2 feet. 
** Annual or biennial plants, with fibrous roots. 
12 Œ. Puetra’nprivum (Lam. fl. fr. 3. p. 432.) root fusiform, 
with many whorled fibres ; stem furrowed, fistular, branched ; 
leaves stalked, repeatedly pinnate, with innumerable, fine, ex- 
panded, dark green, narrow, wedge-shaped, cut, shining, acute, 
divaricate leaflets; umbels opposite the leaves, on short tumid 
peduncles, without involucra; involucels of many narrow, 
taper-pointed leaves; fruit ovate, with 5 broad ribs, and narrow 
intermediate furrows, rather shorter than the pedicels. &. H. 
Native of Europe, Tauria, and Siberia, in rivers, ditches, and 
lakes ; plentiful in some parts of Britain, as in ditches in Bat- 
tersea-fields, near London ; and near Edinburgh. Phellandrium 
aquaticum, Lin. spec. 366. Fl. dan. t. 1154. Smith, engl. bot. 
t. 684. Schkuhr, handb. t. 71. Hoffm. umb. 1. p. 71. descript. 
and icon. t. 1. f.17. Hayne, arz. gew. 1. t. 40. Nees. off. pfl. 
14, t. 6. Woody. med. bot. suppl. 266. Bull. fr. t. 147. 
Erh. pl. off. 24. Œ. aquatica, Lam. dict. 4. p. 530. Ligisti- 
cum phellandrium, Crantz. hort. fasc. 3. p. 84. Cicutaria pa- 
lastris, Ger. emac. 1063. f. 1. Lob. icon. 735. f. 1. Phellandrium, 
Dod. pempt. 591. f. 1. Roth always writes the old name phe- 
landrium, which agrees with an etymology hazarded by Sir 
James Smith, in Rees’ cycl. vol. 27. from gydew, to be trea- 
cherous, alluding to the poisonous nature of the plant; peoc 
avépoc, as Linneus has it, cork of man, is not at all satisfactory. 
Linnæus informs us that the horses in Sweden are seized with 
a kind of palsy by eating this plant ; hence Withering and Sib- 
thorp have named it horse-bane. This effect, however, is not 
to be ascribed to the plant, but to a coleopterous insect breeding 
in the stalks, which he therefore names Curcilio paraplécticus. 
The leaves are sometimes applied to discutient cataplasms, and 
for this reason Boerhaave speaks highly of it. The seeds are 
recommended in intermittents, and are said to be diuretic, anti- 
septic, and expectorant. The efficacy of this plant rests chiefly 
on the testimony of Ernstingius and Lange, by whom various 
cases of its successful use are published, especially in wounds 
and inveterate ulcers, and even in cancers ; also in phthisis, pul- 
monalis, asthma, dyspepsia, and intermittent fevers. Dr. Wood- 
ville rightly observes, that though the disorders here noticed are 
so dissimilar as to afford no satisfactory evidence of the medi- 
cinal qualities of these seeds, yet they appear to be well deserv- 
ing of farther investigation. 
Phellandrium or Fine-leaved Water-dropwort. 
2 to 3 feet. 
13 Œ. srotonyrera (Wall. cat. no. 585.) stems creeping 
at the base, ascending, fistular striated ; leaves bipinnate ; upper 
ones pinnate; leaflets lanceolate, acuminated at the base and 
apex, with a few coarse serratures ; umbels opposite the leaves, 
exinvolucrate ; fruit obovate-oblong, much shorter than the 
pedicels. ¢.? H. Native of Silhet, in the east of Bengal, in 
rice grounds. Phellandrium stoloniferum, Roxb. hort. beng. 
p- 81. Teeth of calyx 5, subulate. Styles permanent. 
Stoloniferous Water-dropwort. PI. creeping. 
14 Œ. tinea‘ris (Wall. cat. no. 586.) stems throwing out 
roots from the nodi at the base, erect, fistular ; leaves pinnate ; 
leaflets of the lower leaves oval, toothed: of the upper ones 
linear, elongated, toothed, or undivided ; umbels opposite the 
leaves, without involucra; rays compressed. ¢.H. Native 
of Nipaul, in rice grounds. Fruit unknown. 
Linear-leaved Water-dropwort. PI. 1} foot. 
15 Œ. Java'nica (D. C. prod. 4. p. 138.) stems terete, fis- 
tular; leaves divided into 3 parts above the sheaths of the pe- 
Britain. Pl. 
UMBELLIFERZE. LX. Ginantue. 
LXI. ANNESORHIZA. 
tioles, which are bipinnate ; leaflets oval-oblong, cuneated at the 
base, deeply toothed at the apex; umbels opposite the leaves, 
pedunculate ; involucrum of a few small leaves; leaves of in- 
volucels setaceous; fruit ovate. ¢.S. Native of Java. Sium 
Javanicum, Blum. ? 
Java Water-dropwort. Pl. ? ‘ 
16 Œ. nuts (Rafin. prec. som. p. 41.) stem simple, pen- 
tagonal; leaves pinnate; leaflets of the lower leaves ovate, 
jagged: of the upper leaves lanceolate, entire ; umbels erect, 
simple; flowers sessile. ©. H. Native of Sicily, on the Ne- 
brode mountains, in woods. The rest unknown. The plant is 
very doubtful. 
Humble Water-dropwort. Pl. 1 foot. 
§ 2. Species, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, the greater 
part of which are hardly known, and all of them, most probably, 
belong to different genera from the present. 
17 Œ. ritirérmis (Lam. dict. 4. p. 520. ill. t. 203. f. 2.) 
leaves simple, filiform, striated, bluntish ; umbels 3-5-rayed ; 
involucrum of 8-5 leaves. 2. G. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, on hills near Cape Town. Œ. filiformis, Sieb, pl. 
exsic. cap. no. 209. Schultes, syst. 6. p. 427. exclusive of the 
synonymes. Séseli filifdlium, Thunb. fi. cap. p. 259. Cònium 
filifdlium, Vahl. symb. 3. p. 49. Sium filifolium, Willd. herb. 
ex Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnza. 1. p. 387. Ecklon, herb. no. 
54, but not of Thunb. Fruit cylindrically prismatic, crowned 
by the 5-toothed calyx. Styles erect. Petals emarginate. 
Filiform Water-dropwort. Pl. 1 foot. 
18 Œ. renurroria (Thunb. prod. 49. fl. cap. p. 253.) stem 
simple, striated; leaves bipinnate: leaflets linear-setaceous, 
deeply pinnatifid; upper leaves undivided, filiform ; leaves of 
involucra and involucels very short; ribs of fruit rather winged. 
Y. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. 
spec. p. 109. 
Fine-leaved Water-dropwort. 
Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
19 Œ. reruta’cea (Thunb. prod. 50. fl. cap. p. 253.) root 
unknown; stem branched, striated ; leaves decompound ; leaflets 
lanceolate, acute, furrowed on both sides; involucra of few 
leaves. 2%. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Spreng: 
umb. spec. p. 109. 
Ferula-like Water Drop-wort. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
20 Œ. INTERRUPTA (Thunb. prod. p. 50. fl. cap. p. 253.) 
root unknown ; stem simple, terete, nearly leafless ; leaves radi- 
cal, petiolate, divided into 3 parts, and these parts are decom- 
pound; leaflets oblong, sinuately pinnatifid, mucronately toothed: 
lower ones reflexed; involucrum of 5 leaves. Y%. G. Native 
of the Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. p. 107. Stem 
said by Thunberg to be villous at the base, but by Sprengel it 
is said to be smooth. Perhaps the same as Annesorhiza Ca- 
pénsis. 
Interrupted Water-dropwort. Fl. Ju. Jul. : 
Cult. Although all the species grow naturally in ditches, rivers, 
and watery places, they grow well in any kind of soil, whether 
dry or wet. Increased by dividing at the root, or by seeds. 
Fl. June, July. Clit. 1819. 
LXI. ANNESORHI'ZA (from ayvne, agnes, chaste, and 
pila, rhiza, a root; smell of root). Cham. et Schlecht. m 
Linnea. 1. p. 398. t. 5. f. 4. D.C. prod. 4. p. 139. 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Digýnia. Margin of calyx 5-toothed, 
permanent. Petals elliptic, acuminated, more or less emat- 
ginate, with an inflexed point. Fruit 5-angled, prismatic, 
crowned by the reflexed calyx and styles; mericarps convex On 
the back, unequal: one of them 3-winged, in consequence of the 
earinal and marginal ribs being winged, but the intermediate ziba 
are filiform: the other 4 winged, in consequence of the carina 
Clt. 1818. Pl. 1 ft. . 
