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Root of whorled fibres ; stem erect, 2 — 3 feet high, very thick at 

 its base, with runners ; leaves 3-pinnate, the lower ones sub- 

 merged with diverging, hair-like segments ; umbels lateral, sub- 

 sessile. — Ditches and ponds ; frequent. — Fl. July — September. 

 Biennial. 



7. (E. fluvidtilis (River Water-Dropwort).— A floating form, 

 with 2-pinnate leaves, the submerged ones pellucid with parallel, 

 many-veined leaflets. — In running water, in the south. — Fl. July — 

 September. Biennial. 



27. ^.THUSA (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 smooth, leafy annual, distinguished by 

 having a brae and i — 5 bracteoles drooi)ing 

 and all on the outer side of the umbel, a 

 globose fruit with sharp ridges and reflexed 

 styles. (Name from the Greek aitJio, I 

 burn, from its acrid character.) 



I. ^. Cyndpium (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 slender plant, about a foot high, with dark 

 green, 2-pinnate leaves and terminal umbels 

 of white flowers, with 3 very long, narrow 

 bracteoles hanging down on the outer side 

 of each secondary umbel. — An evil- 

 smelling, poisonous, but common garden 

 weed. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



■^^28. SiLER is represented by S. iri- 

 lobum, with long-stalked, 3-ternate smooth 

 radical leaves ; ternate cauline leaves ; 

 large terminal bracteate umbels ; and large 

 compressed fruits with one vitta under 

 each secondary ridge, which is naturalised 

 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire. 



29. SiLAUS (Pepper Saxifrage).— Gla- 

 brous plants ; leaves pinnately decom- 

 pound ; umbels compound ; bracts i, 2, or none ; bracteoles many ; 

 flowers yellowish ; fruit ovoid, with slightly winged ridges. (Name, 

 the Latin name of some allied plant.) 



I. S. flavescens (Pepper Saxifrage, Sulphur- wort). — 6"/^^ angular, 

 I — 2 feet high; leaves 3-pinnate, with narrow opposite leaflets; 

 umbels terminal ; flowers.duW, pale yellow, small ; fruit dsivk brown. 

 Meadows; frequent. — "The whole plant being foetid when 

 bruised, is supposed in some parts of Norfolk to give a bad flavour 

 to mi!k and butter." (Sir J. E. Smith.)— F\. June — September. 

 Perennial. 



^THUSA CYNAPIUM 



i^Foors Parsley). 



