126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



J to J inch across, less conspicuously radiant than in CE. fistulosa. 

 Cremocarp light-brown, ^ inch long, with the ridges slightly pro- 

 minent, obtuse, the marginal ones corky, thickened, and contiguous; 

 and connected at the base by a whitish corky ring, which how- 

 ever is scarcely observable when the fruit is quite mature. Plant 

 glabrous, green. 



Callous-fruited Water-Dropicort. 



French, (Enantliefaux Boucage. 



SPECIES III.— CENANTHE SILAIFOLIA. Bleb.? 



Plate DXCV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXL Tab. 1893 ? 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3393. 

 CE. peucedaniifolia, Sm. Eug. Bot. No. 347 (uou Poll.). 

 CE. Smithii, H. C. Watsm, Phyt. 1845, p. 14. 



Root - fibres clavate, fusiform or fusiform-cylindrical. Stem 

 erect, tough, furrowed, hollow, not constricted at the nodes, without 

 stolons or capillary fibres above the tubers. Radical leaves with 

 the leaflets very deeply pinnatifid, cut or entire, with short strap- 

 shaped-linear acute lobes ; upper stem-leaves longer than their 

 solid sheathing petioles, with the leaflets or ultimate lobes elongate 

 linear-strapshaped and acute. Umbels of 4 to 12 rays, thickened in 

 fruit ; umbellulcs dense, convex above in fruit. Involucre of 1 

 to many leaves (sometimes absent ?), leaves generally deciduous. 

 Cremocarp obconical-prismatic, not contracted at the top, with a 

 callous ring at the base. Styles about two-thirds the length of the 

 fruit. 



In moist meadows and damp places by the sides of roads and 

 ditches. Rare. It occurs in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Iluntingdon, 

 Cambridgeshire (where it is now believed to be extinct), Gloucester- 

 shire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, 

 and Bedfordshire. 



Enj^land. Perennial. Summer. 



D 



Very similar to (E. pimpinelloides, but generally a larger plant, 

 with stouter, more branched stems, and the segments of the lower 

 and upper leaves more alike ; the root fibres, though very vari- 

 able in form, thickening gradually, and from the base, while in 

 ffi. pimpinelloides the enlargement is generally like a large bead 

 attached by a thread. The rays of the umbel are longer and not 

 so numerous, so that -the umbellules are not contiguous, more 

 thickened in fruit, especially towards the apex ; pedicels more 

 thickened in fruit. The cremocarp is more narrowed towards the 



