70 PENTANDIIIA— DIGYNIA. CEnanthe. 



fibres. Stem nearly cylindrical, hollow, striated, leafy, slightly 

 branched. Radical leaves doubly pinnate ; their Lectflets either 

 elliptical and entire, or wedge-shaped with one or two notches ; 

 those of the stem for the most part simply pinnate, with long, 

 linear, more or less acute, flat lectflets. Umbels terminal, of 

 many general rays, with about an equal number of linear hrac- 

 ieas. Partial umbels many- flowered, with still more numerous 

 bracteas, as long as their rays. Fl. pale flesh-coloured, slightly 

 radiant. Fruit more elliptical than in the foregoing, with shorter 

 styles, and a smaller calyx. 



3. CE. peucedanifolia . Sulphur-wort Water-drop- 

 wort. 



Leaflets all linear. General bracteas none. Knobs of the 

 root sessile, elliptical. 



CE. peucedanifolia. Pollich Palat. v. 1 . 289. t. 3. mild. Sp. PL v. 1 . 

 1442. Fl. Br. 319. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 348. Sibth.98. Abbot 64. 



CE. n. 756. Hall. Hist. i;. 1 . 331 . 



CE. angustifolia. Lob. Ic. 729./. 



CE. angustifolia aquatica recta vulgaris. Moris, v. 3. 289. sect. 9. 

 t.7.f.7. 



Filipendula angustifolia. Ger. Evi. 1059.^. 



Bolbocastanum fcemina. Dalech, Hist. 773. f. good. 



In fresh-water ditches and bogs. 



Near Bury. Mr. Mathcw. About Bedford. Abbot. On the banks 

 of the Isis beyond Ifley, and in peat bogs under Headington 

 Wick copse, Oxfordshire. Sibth. 



Perennial. June. 



Root of several elliptic-oblong, fleshy knobs, crowded together at 

 the base of the thick, solid, upright stern, which is taller and 

 firmer than the last. Leaflets of the radical leaves, as well as 

 of all the rest, linear, narrow and acute. General umbels of 

 from 3 to 7 stout rays, with scarcely ever any general bracteas ; 

 partial ones dense, many-flowered, with short rays, and many 

 lanceolate bracteas of the same length. Cal. erect, unequal. 

 Fl. often reddish. Fruit large, tumid, deeply furrowed, forming 

 globular heads, bristly with the long prominent styles. The mar- 

 g'maljlowers are often without stamens. 



The roots taste like the Garden Parsnep, but are probably danger- 

 ous food ; yet these three species are not reckoned i)oisonous, 

 though the next is perhaps the most virulent of British plants. 



4. CE. crocata. Hemlock Water-dropwort. 



Leaflets all wedge-shaped, many-cleft, nearly uniform. Fruit 

 linear-oblong, with slender intermediate ribs. 



CE. crocata. Linn, Sp, PI. 365. mild. v. 1.1411. Fl. Br. 3 19. 



