190 PENTANDRIA. DIGTNIA. 



stem; leaflets 5 or 6 inches long-, and about 2 lines wide, 

 thickish, perfectly entire, or now and then, but rarely, 

 bifid, circumscribed by a white and somewhat scabrous 

 margin. Umbell rather small, with elongated rays. Um- 

 bellets roundish, wiih sessile abortive flowers, involucell 

 many-leaved, filiform-subulate. Calix distinct, 5-toothed. 

 Petals cordately-inflected. Styles very short, peltately 

 dilated at the base. Fruit smooth, flat, and subelliptic. — 

 Nearly allied to the preceding species, and probably to 

 (E. peucedanifolia of Europe. Hab. On the marshy banks 

 of the Delaware, near Philadelphia. My friend Z. Col- 

 lins, Esq. informs rae, that this plant attains the height of 

 6 to 10 feet in the marshes of New Jersey, and that the 

 lower leaves are extremely long and furnished with nu- 

 merous leaflets, uniformly narrow like those of the Dela- 

 ware plant. — These 2 species do not well accord with the 

 genus, and appear allied somewhat to Peucecla7iu7n, by 

 the flatness of the seeds. I am satisfied that ihe celebrated 

 Sprengel could not possibly have referred our ffi. rigidhis 

 to his genus Shimi one of us must be in an error as to 

 the identity of the plant. 



Of this noxions genus there are about 12 species in Eu- 

 rope, 1 in Barbary, 1 in tropical America {Hiianaca acaulis, 

 Cav.) 6 at the Cape of Good Hope. According to Per- 

 soon the tuberous roots of (E. peucedanifolia are eaten by 

 children in some parts of France. 



^75, -;ETHUSA. i. (Fool's-parsley.) 



ff Fruit ovate, somewhat solid, corticate, 

 ridges (on eacli seed) 5, acute and turgid, in- 

 tervals acute-angular, commissure flat, striate. 

 Jnvolucrmn 1 -sided or wanting." Sprengel. 



Leaves ternately divided, slender and compoundly dis • 

 sected. 



Species. 1. u^. divaricata. Sp. Obs. Annual; stem erect 

 and slender; leaves biternate, segments narrow and linear; 

 umbells terminal without either partial or general involu- 

 crum; umbellets 3 .to 5-flowered, flowers white, fruit 

 subglobose, somewhat hispid, v. s. in the herbarium of 

 Z. Collins, Esq. but not sufficiently advanced to as- 

 certain the ultimate character of the seed. Is it not 

 Tather a Bunium? {^immi divancaUnn. Persoon. Daucus. 

 Walter.) In Carolina. 2. leptophylla? Sp. Leaves biter- 

 nately dissected, margin of the acute segments entire; 

 umbell trifid, sessile, umbellets naked, few-flowered. 

 Pijnpinella leptophylla? VCT^oori.) 1. p. 324, Hab, In the 



