416 CONIUM MACULATUM. 
sides and in waste ground, especially in those 
parts of the country which have been longest set- — 
tled. It is usually found in bunches, and attains 
the full height of a man. It flowers from June 
until the arrival of frost. 
The yery natural order, called Umbellatee by 
Linneus and Umbelliferee by Jussieu, to Which 
this plant and the following one belong, is found 
in the class Pentandria and order Digynia of the 
Linnzean artificial method. 
_ The genus Conium of Linneus has both 
general and partial involucres, the latter being 
halved. The fruit roundish and furrowed. 
The species maculatum has the fruit un- 
armed with the ridges undulated. 
Its more complete description is as follows. 
Root biennial, somewhat fusiform and generally 
branched. Stalk round, very smooth, striated, hol- 
low, jointed, and more or less marked with pur- 
plish spots. Leaves two or three times pinnate, 
of a very bright green, with long, sheathing peti- 
oles inserted on the joints of the stem ; the leafets 
pinnatifid and toothed. Flowers in terminal 
umbels, the general involucre with half a dozen 
lanceolate, reflected leafets, the partial involucre 
with three or four situated on the outside. Flow- 
ers very small, white. _ Petals five, oval with their 
