PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. GEnanthe. 69 



CE. quarta. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 22 1 ./. Camer. Epit. 611./. 



CE. sive Filipendula aquatica. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 191./. 192. 



Fiiipendula aquatica. Ger. Em. 1060./. 



Juncus odoratus aquatilis. Dod. Pempt. 5^0. f. 



Water Dropwort. Pet. H. Brit. t.25.f.5 8( 6. 



In ditches, ponds, and other watery places, common. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root tuberous, propagating itself by runners. Stems erect, rising 

 2 or 3 feet above the water, round, hollow, tumid, striated, 

 smooth, glaucous. Radical leaves under water, doubly pinnate, 

 with flat, wedge-shaped, lobed leaflets; stem-leaves on long, 

 tumid, sheathing stalks, hollow as well as their cylindrical com- 

 pound leajlets. Umbels on long, hollow, lateral and terminal 

 stalks, the lower ones of 3, the upper of several, general rays, 

 with rarely one or two, almost capillary, general bracteas. Par- 

 tial umbels of very numerous rays, those of the disk short, bear- 

 ing fertile _/Zoi/;ers ,• of the circumference still more abundant, 

 and longer, bearing hwcrenjiowers, with rudiments only oi styles. 

 In fruit the partial umbels are globose, bristly with the long rigid 

 styles, which are very little swelled at the base. Fruit turbinate, 

 abrupt, with intermediate ribs, the principal ones not very pro- 

 minent or turgid. 



The variety /3 of Hudson, and of Fl. Br., indicated by the figures of 

 Morison, Dodonaeus, and Petiver's n. 6, difters very slightly in 

 size only, and that merely accidentally. 



2. (St. pimphielloides. Parsley Water-dropwort. 



Leaflets of the radical leaves wedge-shaped, cloven ; of the 

 rest entire, flat, linear, elongated. General bracteas linear, 

 numerous. 



CE. pimpinelloides. Linn. Sp.Pl.Z&G. Willd.v. \. VAA2. Fl. Br. 



318. Engl. Bot. v. o. t. 347. Hook. Scot. 91. Jacq. Justr. 



t.394. Fl. Dan. t.]454. 

 Q5. Staphylini folio aliquateniis accedens. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 



191./. RaiiSyn.2\Q. 

 (E. apii folio. Bauh. Pin. 162. 



CE. secunda. Matth. Falgr.v.2.2\9.f. Camer. Epit. 610. f. 

 CE. aquatica, pimpinellse saxifragae divisura nostras. Pluk. Aim. 



268. Phyt. t. 49./ 4, very bad. 

 In salt marshes. 

 At Quaplod, near Spalding, Lincolnshire. Plukenet. Near Aber, 



North Wales. Rev. Hugh Davies. Cambridgeshire. Rev. J. 



Hemsted. On the east of Dunbar ; also in Galloway, the isle of 



Arran, and other parts of Scotland. Mr. J. Mackay. Below 



Dumbarton. Mr. Hopkirk. 

 Perennial. July. 

 Root of several slender, tapering, fleshy tubercles, intermixed with 



