PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Selinuni. 97 



what bordered. Styles sliort and close in the flower ; sub- 

 sequently elongated, reflexed, flattened ; their bases tu- 

 mid, hemispherical. Stigmas obtuse, or capitate. FL Be- 

 cept. obsolete. Fruit elliptical, transversely compressed, 

 crowned with the calyx and styles. Seeds nearly elliptical, 

 almost flat, each with 3 longitudinal, more or less acute, 

 dorsal ribs ; the margin dilated, flat, even, smooth, and 

 entire, at least half as broad as the body of the seed. 

 Juncture broad, flat, close, parallel to the seeds, and of 

 the same width, not extending to their wings. 

 Perennial or biennial herbs, with rather tall, upright, fur- 

 rowed sterns^ and large, repeatedly pinnate, fmely divided, 

 leaves. Umbels of many, general as well as partial, an- 

 gular rays, with narrow, lanceolate, pointed, genei^al 

 and partial hracteas. FL white, numerous. Seeds pale 

 brown. 



1 . S. palustre. Marsh Milk-parsley. 



Milky. Root generally single. Leaves triply pinnate; 

 leaflets pimialifid, with elliptic-lanceolate segments. Rays 

 of the umbel rou"h. Ribs of the seeds broad and obtuse. 



o 

 S. palustre. Linn. Sp. PL 350. Willd, v.\. 1397. FL Br. 303. 



EmrL Bot.v. 4. t. 220. Hook. Scot. 88. Sprang. Frodr. 15. Ehrh. 



PL Of. 363. FL Dan. t. 257. Crantz. Austr. fasc. 3. 39. t. 4. 

 /. 1 . ? perhaps a starved plant. 

 S. sylvestre. Jctcq. Auslr. t. 152. 

 S. n. 799. Hall. Hist. v. 1.355. 

 S. palustre lactescens. Bank. Pin. 1G2. Prodr. 85./. Moris, v. 3. 



317. 

 Thvssclinum palustre. Tourn. Inst.3\9. 

 Th'. Plinii. Sprcng. Sp. Unib. 09. Loh. Ic. 711./. Moris, v. 3. 317. 



serf. 9. t. 17./. 2. 

 Tiiysselium ane^ustiiolium. Biv. Pent. Irr. ^ 20. 

 Ai)ium svlvestre, sive Thyssoliuin. Dod. Pcnipt. (199. /'. Ger. 



Em. 1020./ Dalech. Hist. 701 ./. Bauli. Hist. r. 3. /). 2. 188, 



dcscr. not the Jigurc. 



In marshes and boggy meadows. 



In several parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire ; first noticed by 

 Mr. Hudson near Uoncaster. Found in some alilcr swam[)s 

 near Yarmouth, i)y Mr. Lilly Wi.LC.q;, and between Norwich and 

 Heigham, towards the river, by Mr. l*it(htord. The present 

 Bishop of Carlisle noticed it near Prickwillow bank, in tlie Isle 

 of Klv, and Mr. Ilopkirk in a ditch at Arilencaj)lc wood, in the 

 south of Scotland. 



Perennial ; some sav biennial, .hihi. 



