WATER DROPWORT 



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of rivers, lakes, ponds, and other tracts of water; but most profusely in 

 water meadows, in hollows once (or now) forming part of a marsh. 



As the second Latin name denotes, the stem and the leaf-stalks 

 of this plant are hstular or hollow. It is freely stoloniferous, with 



Plioto. Fhtttcrs 5; Garnett 



Water Dropwort (CEnantlic fislulosa, L. ) 



creepinor stems or shoots, and forms e,\tenslve beds where it grows for 

 that reason, and being tall and erect they dot the wet meadows in 

 summer over a wide area. The stem leaves have thread-like pinna_-. 

 The stalks exceed the leaves in length, these last being 2-3, pinnate, 

 with leaflets divided into three nearly to the base. 



The (lowers arc- while, in small umbels with few rays, stout flower- 



VoL. V. 64 



