UMBELLALS. 246 UMBELLIFERS. 
- Habitat. Ditches, especially in salt marshes. 
ity. Acrid, poisonous when growing in wet places and unblanched. 
Uses. When cultivated forms a favourite salad and ingredient in soups. 
Cicuta. Linneeus. 
~ Umbels compound. Involucre: general, obsolete ; partial of many subulate 
bracts. Calya leafy. Fruit roundish, con- 
tracted at the side. Ridges 5, flattish, equal, 
the lateral at the edge. Vittw: 1 large to 
each furrow. Albumen terete. 
1. C. virosa Linneus. Fig. 329. 
Leaves tripinnate ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 
serrated. 
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Habitat. Ditches and river sides, 
Quality. A dangerous poison, acting like Conium. 
Perroseninum. Hoffmann. 
—Umbels compound. Involucres: partial of many, general of few bracts. 
; Calya obsolete. Fruit ovate, contracted at the side. Ridges 5, 
narrow, equal, the lateral on the edge. 
Vittee 1 to each furrow. Albumen plano- 
convex. : 
l. P. satiowm Hoffmann.—(PARSLEY.) Fig. 
329. : 
Stem angular; leaves shining, 3-pinnate ; 
leaflets toothed. 
Habitat, Common in gardens. ee a 
Quality, Pleasant, stimulating, aromatic, diuretic. 
Uses. Leaves a common garnish to meat, &c. A 
330 favourite pot-herb. 
Puvpinetta. Linneus. : 
Umbels compound. Involucres usually 0. Calyx obsolete. Fruit con 
mS tracted at the side, ovate. Ridges 5, filiform, 
equal ; the lateral on the edge. Vittw 00. Albu- 
i) men concayo-convex. 
1. P. Anisum Linneus.—(Antsz.) Fig. 330. 
Lower leaves roundish-cordate, cut, those of the 
pinnate, with wedge-shaped leaflets ; fruit down 
: tions, espe — 
ployed to relieve flatulence, and colick: pains, especially of children. 
times take it to promote the secretion of milk. Ithas also been 
