PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. CEnanthe. 297 



Whirled Honetuort. Meadows and pastures. On the Western 

 lide of Wales, and in Scotland, P. Aug. 



(ENAN'THE. Florets of different shapes, those 



in the centre sitting, barren : fruit with a cork- 

 like coat, oblong, scored ; crowned by the 

 styles and the calyx, which are permanent. 



0, Sending forth suckers : stem-leaves winged j thread- fistulo'sau 



shaped j hollow. 



E. lot. 363-Knipb. 5-Riv. pent. 36. (Enanthe-Fl. dan. 846 

 -Lot. Ic. i. 73. 1. 2-Ger. em. 1Q6Q-Park. 1233. l~Pet. 



25. 5-J. B. Hi. 2. 1.92-G*r. 902. 5. 



From 12 to 18 inches high, Irwolucrum sometimes none, 

 sometimes of one, and sometimes of 5 leaves. Umbel spokes from 

 2 to 7. The first umbel is cloven into 3 parts ; the succeeding 

 ones into many ; so that the plant changes its appearance con- 

 siderably in the course of the summer. Petals white. 



Water Dropwort. Ponds and ditches, frequent* [Marsh at 

 Fresh water Gate, in the Isle of Wight, May, June.] P. July.* 



Var. 2. pueedamfolta. This is a small var. mentioned by 

 Ray, and figured in E. hot. 348. nvhere it is made a dis- 

 tinct species.-Dod. 590-Lob. obs. 421, and ic. u 732. 1- 

 Park. 1233. <2~H. ox. ix. 7. 8-Pet. 25. 6~Cam. epit. 6l l f 



right hand figure. 



Mr. Afzelius thinks that the var. 1. is the true O. fistulosa 

 of Linn, and that the other is the O. pucedanifolia of Pollich i. 

 page 289, tab. 3. The plants I got in the Isle of Wight cor- 

 respond with the fig. of Pollich, and the leafits are 3 or 4 inches 

 long, but the other kind has leafits rarely more than half or £ 

 inch long. The bulbs of the roots seem to vary their situation 

 as the plant grows in more or less water, in a thin or a stiff mud, 

 or in a garden soil, so that their being placed in a bundle at the 

 bottom of the stem, or on the fibres of the roots at a greater or 

 lesser distance, are circumstances too variable to establish a 

 character. 



0. All the leaves many-cleft, blunt, nearly equal. croca'ta. 



Phil, trans, ahr. x. 23, at p. 77%-Black<w. 575-Gcnt. Mag. 

 1747. xvii. at p. 322-Jacj. hort. iii. 55-Wood<u. 267~Pet. 



* Cows and horses refuse it, though from experiments made on pur-* 



pose, it does not appear to be in the least degree noxious to the former. 



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