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TJMBELLIFERJE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 
leaved : involucels many-leaved. Flowers white. (The ancient 
Latin of the Hemlock.) 
1. €• maculata, L. (Spotted Cowbane. Musquash-root, 
&c.) Stem streaked with purple, stout; leaflets oblong -lanceolate, 
coarsely serrate, sometimes lobed, pointed. — Swamps, common. Aug. 
— Plant 3° -6° high, coarse; the root a deadly poison. 
2. C. Imlbifera, L. (Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock.) 
Leaflets linear , remotely toothed or cut-lobed; upper axils bearing 
clusters of bulblets. — Swamps, rather common : but seldom ripening 
fruit. 
19 . Stinffi, L. Water Parsnip. 
Calyx-teeth small or minute. Fruit ovate or globular, flattish 
or contracted at the sides ; the carpels with 5 rather obtuse ribs : 
interstices usually with several oil-tubes. — Marsh or aquatic per¬ 
ennials, poisonous, with grooved-angled stems, simply pinnate 
leaves, and lanceolate serrate leaflets, or the immersed ones cut 
into capillary divisions. Involucre several-leaved. Flowers white. 
(Name supposed to be from the Celtic siu, water, from their hab- 
itation.) 
1 S. latifolium, L. Leaflets broadly lanceolate, pointed, 
serrate; involucre many-leaved; calyx-teeth conspicuous. — Wet 
swamps. July - Sept. — Plant 2° - 5° high. Leaflets 7-11. 
2 S lincare, Michx. Leaflets narrowly lanceolate or linear, 
finely and sharply serrate; calyx-teeth minute; fruit very strong, 
ribbed. —Wet swamps. July - Sept. — Probably the plants of the 
United States principally belong to this species, rather than to the 
preceding. 
20. CRTPTOTiMIA, DC. Honewort. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, contracted at the sides; 
the carpels equally 5-ribbed : oil-tubes very slender, one in each 
interstice and one under each rib.-A perennial smooth herb, 
with thin 3-foliolate leaves, umbels and umbellets with very une¬ 
qual rays, no involucre and few-leaved involucels. Flowers white. 
(Name composed of Kpvirros, hidden, and raivia, a fillet, from the 
concealed oil-tubes.) 
1. C. Canadcnse, DC. (Sison Canadense, L.) Rich woods, 
common. June —Sept. — Plant 2? high. Leaflets large, ov ate, pom 
ed, doubly serrate, the lower lobed. 
