PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Sison. 295 



names of broad and narrow-leaved are ill appropriated because 

 tending to mislead, for neither the leaves nor leafits of the latter 

 are narrower than those of the former, and if there is a difference 

 it is generally the reverse of what the trivial names would lead 

 us to expect. 



Upright Water Parsnep. Narrow-leaved Skerret. Ditches 



and rivulets. [Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Kingston Pool, near 

 Stafford. King's Park, and meadows and ditches near Edin- 

 burgh. Mr. Brown.] P. July— Sept. 

 It certainly possesses active properties which ought to be en- 

 quired into. 



S. Leaves winged ; leafits tooth-serrated : umbels lateral, nodiflo'rum. 



opposite the leaves, sitting or on fruit-stalks. 



Wood<v. 1%2-ToHrn. 162-H. ox. ix. 5, 3-Pet. 



26". 3. 



Stem and branches generally trailing or floating on the wa- 

 ter, and striking root at the joints. Involucr* deciduous. In<vo- 

 lucelL of 5 y 6 or 7 spear-shaped reflected leaves. Flowers white. 



Creeping Water Parsnep, or Skerret. In rivers and ditches* 



P. July, Aug 



S* Stem creeping: leafits roundish, toothed and angular, re'pens. 



Jacq. austr. 260. 



[Found by Dr. J. Sibthorp in moist ground called Cowley 

 Bottom, near Oxford. On the bank of a pond at Fisherrow, 5 

 miles from Edinburgh, and in abundance on the moist parts of 

 Guillon Links, 4 East Lothian. Dr. HorE.] P. June, July. 



Smaller in all its parts than S. uodifiorum. Leafits, the ter- 

 minating one deeply divided into 3 lobes. Dr. J. Sibthorp. 



Umbels on fruit-stalks, opposite the leaves. Leafits roundish 

 egg-shaped, unequally serrated, serratures bluntish, the lower 

 edge also generally deeply cut in one place. Dr. Stokes. 



* ■ 



SFSON. Involucrum about 4 leaves r fruit egg- 

 shaped, scored : styles bent back. 



S. Leaves winged : umbels upright. Amo'num. 



J acq. hort. til/ \7-Black<w. 442-^. B. iii. ?. 10?- Fucks. 

 655-Trag.46l-Dod. 697. l-Ger.em. 16l6\ \-Park.9i*. 

 1-//. ox. ix. 5. 7* 



* A young lady 6 years old was cured of an obstinate cutaneous dis- 

 ease, by taking 3 large spoonfuls of the juice twice a day ; and I have 

 repeatedly given to adults 3 or 4 ounces every morning in similar com- 

 plaints, with the greatest advantage. It is not nauseous, and children take 

 it readily if mixed with milk. In the doses I have given it, it neither \ 



affect* the head, the stomach, nor the bowels. 



