90 ORD. VI. Umbellate. °° —_anonnica svivestris. 
preceding article, not ‘only possesses all the medicinal properties of 
this species in a superior degree, but may always be more readily 
procured. 
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PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM. FINE LEAVED 
WATER-HEMLOCK. 
SYNONYMA. Feeniculum aquaticum. Pharm. Murray. App. 
Med. i. p. 267. Rivin. Pent. tab. 65. Ernstingii Phellandrolo- 
gia. Lange, vom Wasserfenchel. 1771. Cicutaria palustris tenui- 
folia. .Bauh. Pin. 161. Park. 933. Cicutaria palustris. Ger. 
Emac. 1063. Raii. Hist. 452. _Synop. 215. Petiv, t. 28. f. 4. 
Hall. n. 757. P.aquaticum. Hudson, Flor. Ang. 122. Lighif. 
Flor. Scot. 163. Withering. Bot. Arr. 298. Smith. Flor.’ Brit. 
$21. Eng. Bot. 684. ‘<3 
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Pentandria Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 353. 
* 
Gen. Ch. Flosculi disci minores. Fructus ovatus levis coronatus 
perianthio et pistillo. : 
Sp. Ch. P. foliorum ramificationibus divaricatis, 
ROOT biennial, thick, tapering, jointed, sending off numerous 
long slender fibres. Stalk thick, hollow, smooth, jointed, branched, 
scored, usually about two feet in height. Leaves large, triply pin- 
nated, ramifying at right angles, or divaricating; leafits irregularly 
pinnatifid; leaves under the water filiform. Flowers small, white, 
in terminal umbels. General involucrum none. Partial involucrum 
of seven leaves, which are pointed, and about the length of the 
proper umbel. Calyx five-toothed, permanent. Flowers all fertile, 
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