298 



PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Phellandrium. 



25. 7~H. ox. ix. 7, ro<w 2. I.-Lob. adv. 326. 2-/V i. 730. 





2-Ger. em. 1059- 1-Pari. 894. 6-J.B. iii-. 2. 193- ?. 



Leaves, some winged; but more doubly winged. The /////* 

 leaves wedge-shaped, smooth, streaked, jagged. Petals white, 

 acute, bent inwards*', Involucrum wanting. Linn. f It has an 

 involucrura of 5 strap-shaped leafits, about half the length of the 

 shorter spokes, but it very readily falls off. Mr. Gough. Stem 

 and leaves quite hairless* Umbellules nearly globular. General 

 blossom not very unequal. 



Dead Tongue. Hemlock Dropiuort. Watery places, banks o 

 livers and ditches. [Meadows, near Hanley Hall, Worcestersh. 

 Mr* Ballard. — Between Bishops Aukland and Wolsingham, 

 and near Stockton. Mr. Robson. 



race ground. Mr. Caley.] 





Bent Bogs, near Manchester 



P. June, July " 



pimpmei- 0. Leafits of the root-leaves wedge-shaped, cloven; those 



of the stem entire, strap -shaped, very long, undi- 



loi'des. 



vided. 





, Jaeij . austr. 394-£. lot. 34/ -Matth. &6j-Ger. QOl-Knifi. 

 8-H. ox. ix. J. 3-J. B. iii. 2. 191. \-Pet. ii. 2.5. 8. 



Stem angular, 6 inches high. Root -leaves like those of parsley f 

 but thicker, doubly winged, broad ; leafits cut. StemJeaves less 



^ 



nelled, very long. 



Involucrums general 



white, somewhat radiated. 



compound, scarcely doubly winged; leafits strap-shaped, chan- 



Umbels unequal. In<valucrums general and 



partial, all bristle-shaped. Bloss. 



Linn. Outer rays very long, and the florets barren. Woodw. 



CaL teeth unequal. Styles upright. 



Parsley Dropvoort. Slow streams, ponds, and ditches. 

 Marshes, near Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. — North side of Bre- 



don Hill, Worcestershire. Nash. 



P. July, Aug 



PHELLAN'DRIUM. Central florets smallest: 



fruit egg-shaped, smooth ; crowned with the 

 pistil and the calyx. 



aquat'icum.P. Ramifications of the leaves straddling. 





» The whole of this plant is poisonous ; and Dr. Pulteney remarks, 

 that the root is the most virulent of all the vegetable poisons that Great 

 Britain produces. Many instances of its fatal effects are recorded; *° r 

 which see Phil. Trans, ib. and vol. i. p. 856; Gent. Mag. July I74?t 

 March 1755, aru * Sept. 1758.— An infusion of the leaves, or 3 tea spoon- 

 ftils of the juice of the root taken every morning, effected a cure in a very 

 obstinate cutaneous disease ; but not without occasioning very great dis- 

 turbances in tiie constitution. PbU. tranr. Ixii. p. 469. Mr. Gough in- 

 forms me, that the country people in Westmoreland apply a poultice of 

 the herb to the ulcer which forms in the fore part of the cleft of the hoot 



in homed cattle, and is called the foul. —Sheep eat it. Cows and horse* 

 refuse it. 



