134 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
SanicuLa EUROPA. (Plate VIII. Fig. 30.) Wood Sanicle. 
This very pretty plant grows in woods and thickets, and its 
leaves and flowers are very ornamental. Leaves palmate, 
that is, divided like fingers, and the lobes cut into three. 
Heads of flowers small, white, and extremely pretty, some- 
times a little tinged with red. Gerarde, the old botanist, 
says it was used much as a drink for curing inward hurts. 
It is bitter and aromatic, but is not now used in medicine. 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
CALYCIFLORA. APIACES. 
HELOSCIADIUM. (Marsuwort.) 
Generic Character. Calyx with five teeth. Petals oval and. 
obtuse. The fruit curious, having five slightly prominent ridges. 
The umbelliferous tribe, of which this is an example, the 
first being mentioned at page 89, are, some of them, very 
puzzling. The blossom is small, having five distinct petals, 
frequently the two outer much larger than the rest. Two 
pistils, each having a stigma, which remain after the petals 
have fallen off, and form part of the seed-vessel. Most of 
them have white flowers, a few yellow, as Fennel, Parsnip, 
&c., and a few red. 
