58 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Sium. 



ish white. Cal. very short. Pet. ovate, slightly indexed, and 

 scarcely heart-shaped. Fruit like the last, but with rather more 

 prominent and sharper ribs. 

 The juice of this herb is recommended in cutaneous disorders. 

 Three large spoonfuls are given, mixed with milk, twice a day. 



4. S. repens. Creeping Water-paisnep. 



Leaves pinnate; leaflets roundish, deeply toothed. Umbels 

 stalked, opposite to the leaves. Stem creeping. 



S. repens, Linn.SupplA^X. Willd. Sp. PL v. ].\432. Fl. Br. 3\4. 

 Engl. Bot.v. 20. t.l43\. Hook. Scot. 90. Relh.l\4. Sibth.97. 

 Abbot 63. Jacq. Auslr. t. 260. Fl. Ban. t.\b\4. 



In boggy meadows, or on watery commons. 



On BuUington Green and Cowley Bottom, near O.xford. Sihthorp. 

 On Coldham Common, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. On Golding- 

 ton Green, and Stevington Bogs. Abbot. At Fisher-row, and 

 on Guillen Links, near Edinburgh, Dr. Hope; confirmed by 

 Mr. J. T. Mackaij. 



Perennial. August. 



Still smaller than the last-described, with several slender, quite 

 prostrate, creeping stems. Leaves scattered, stalked, erect ; 

 leajlets from 3 or 5 to 1 1 , roundish or wedge-shaped, coarsely 

 toothed, the odd one generally 3-lobed. Footstalks bordered at 

 the base with a pointed membrane. Umbels opposite to the 

 leaves, on stalks of various lengths ; their general rays from 3 

 to 6, unequal 5 partial rays numerous. Bracteas lanceolate; 

 the general as well as partial ones from 4 to 6. Fl. white, 

 partly abortive. Cal. obsolete. Pet. obovate, incurved. Styles 

 permanent, .short, spreading horizontally. Fruit nearly orbicular, 

 dark brown, small, each seed with 6 equidistant, prominent, pale 

 ribs, exactly as in S. latifolium. 



5. S. inmidaimn. Least Water-parsnep. 



Leaves pinnate, cut; the lowermost in many compound 

 capillary segments. Umbels five-flowered, in pairs. 



S. inundatum. Wiggers Holsat 24. Roth Germ. v. 2. p. 1. 336. 



S. n. 780. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 346. 



S. pusillum, foliis variis. Raii Syn. 212. 



S. minimum, foliis imis ferulaceis. Moris, v. 3. 283. sect. 9. t. 5./. 5. 



S. minimum umbellatum, foliis variis. Pluk. Phyt. t. 61./. 3. 



Least Water-parsnep. Pet. H. Brit. t. 26./. 4, 



Sison inundatum. Linn.Sp. Pl.3C)3. JFdld.v.]. 1437. Engl.Bot. 



t. 227. Hook. Scot. 91. Fl. Dan. t. 89. 

 Hydrocotyle inundata. Fl. Br. 290. 

 Meura inundatum. Spreng. Sp. Umb. 114. 



In ditches, poolsj and wet ground overflowed in winter. 



