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*i6. Falcaria, represented by F. vulgaris, a stout, glabrous 

 plant with evenly serrate leaflets^ resembling Cicuta virbsa, which 

 occurs as a cornfield casual in Kent and Hampshire. Perennial. 



17. SiUM (Water-Parsnip).— Glabrous plants; leaves pinnate, 

 serrate; ymbels compound; bracts and bracfeoles many, flowers 

 white. (Name said to be connected with a Keltic word snv, water.) 



1. 6". latifblium (Broad-leaved Water-Parsnip). — A stout plant, 

 with a furrowed ste?n, 3 — 5 feet high; pinnate leaves of 5 — 13 

 large, distant, lanceo- 

 late, acute, evenly ser- 

 rate leaflets ; and large, 

 flat-topped, many-rayed 

 umbels of small white 

 flowers, with large leafy 

 lanceolate bracts and 

 bracteoles. — Watery 

 places ; not common. 

 — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



2. S. erect um (Nar- 

 row-leaved Water-Pars- 

 nip). — Smaller than 

 the last, and resemb- 

 ling Apium nodiflbrum, 

 from which it may be 

 distinguished by its 

 very irregularly serrate 

 cauline leaves, its um- 

 bels, which are not only 

 opposite the leaves, 

 but also stalked and 

 larger, and its reflexed, 

 and often cut, bracts 

 and bracteoles.— WdiiQiy 

 places ; common. — Fl. August 



^gop6dium podagraria {Cojiunofi Gout-weed). 



Perennial. 



18. yEcopoDiUM (Gout- weed). — Glabrous; leaves 2 — 3-ternate, 

 with broad leaflets ; umbels compound, many rayed ; bracts and 

 bracteoles few or none ; flowers white. (Name from the Greek 

 aix, a goat, pons, a foot, from some fancied resemblance of the 

 leaves.") 



I. yE. Podagraria (Gout-weed, Bishop's-weed, Herb Gerard). — 

 Rhizome creeping, white, pungent, aromatic ; ste77i about a foot 

 high, hollow, furrowed ; leaves mostly radical, large, 2 — 3-ternate ; 



