340 THE PABSLEY FAMILY. 



17. FiNE-LEATED Dropwort — (CEndnthe PheUdndrium.) 

 Ditches and pondsides, rare. Ponds behind the Art-Treasures 

 Exhibition site. Landside, near Leigh, plentiful. (J. E.) Fl. July. 



E.B. X. 684. 



18. FooLs'-PABSLEY — {^thusa Cynapium.) 

 Cornfields, waste ground, and neglected kitchen-gardens, unhappily 

 abundant everywhere. Fl. July, August. Annual and biennial. 

 Curtis, i. 13 ; E. B. xvii. 1193 ; Baxter, i. 19. 



A poisonous plant, which has caused the deaths of many, through its resemblance 

 to genuine parsley. (See " Walks and Wild-flowers," chap, vi.) When in flower 

 it is distinguishable by the long, pendalous bracts beneath the umbellules ; and 

 at other times by the much more attenuated and never crisped or " curled" 

 leaves, which are also of a dark and unpleasant green, while those of genuine 

 parsley have a yellowish tinge. If the curled varieties of parsley were alone to 

 be cultivated, the fools'-parsley could never be confounded with it by dealers and 

 eaters. 



19. Spignel — {Meum Athamdnticum.) 

 Whiteley Dean, a moor near Milnrow, plentiful. (J. P.) Fl. June, 



July. 



Curtis, iv. 600 ; E. B. xxxii. 2249 ; Baxter, iv. 314. 



Occasionally ia good gardens. 



20. Angelica — (^Angelica sylvestrts.) 



Ditch-banks, on the borders of rivulets, and in marshy places, 



abundant everywhere. Plentiful near Carrington Moss. Fl. July — 



October. 



E. B. xvi. 1128 ; Baxter, vi. 491. 



A handsome though not very tall plant, conspicuous in low wet grounds, and 

 on the borders of streams towards the close of the season, when its splendid 

 convex and lilac-tinged umbels rise above the exhausted relics of the summer, 

 and catch the eye at a long distance. 



21. Cow-PARSNiP — {Herdcleum Sphondylium.) 

 Dry borders of fields, and frequently among mowing-grass, common 

 everywhere. Fl. June, July. 



E. B. xiv. 939 ; Baxter, ii. 130. 



Next to the Angelica, the noblest and handsomest of our Umbellifern?, both in 

 the amplitude of its foHage, and the large flat-topped umbels that surmount it. 

 The flowers are pure white, and the marginal ones usually larger than the inner, 

 giving the umbel that peculiarly elegant and radiant aspect which we see in the 



