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leaves linear-obovate, or wedge-shaped and trifid, obtuse, raucronate; 

 those of the upper leaves sub-acute. Involucrum many-leaved (about 

 six or eight) usually persistent. Fruit oblong or turbinate, broader 

 than the calyx, tapering below, without callosity at the base, shortly 

 pedicellate, densely crowded in the umbellule. CE. Lachenalii, Bab. 

 Man. ; Ball, in Annals. GE. pimpinelloides, Hudson ; Smith ; 

 Hooker ; Lindley ; Eng. Bot. 348 ; and most English writers. 

 This appears to be certainly the species of Gmelin ; De Candolle and 

 Duby ; Lejeune and Courtois; Reichenbach ; Koch, &c. Mr. Ball 

 and Mr. Babington rightly state this to be the commonest of the three 

 species. I have it from many places on the coast, — from Cornwall 

 northward to the firths of Forth and Clyde; as also from places inland. 

 Among some scores of specimens, the inland plants generally have 

 the roots longer and more slender, while their fruits are rather smaller, 

 and less narrowed at the base. But a specimen from Michelfeld, 

 near Basle, has a tuber (the only one left attached) as short and thick 

 as some of the most elongated tubers on British specimens of the 

 next species. Smith's peucedanifolia. Judging by the labels which 

 have come into my hands, the inland plants are usually called 

 pimpinelloides, by English botanists ; while those from the coast are 

 labelled as peucedanifolia. 



3. (Enanthe Smithii (temporary name). Tubers rather short, 

 thick, clavate, or oblong-fusiform, sessile. Leaflets and segments of 

 the lower stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, scarcely broader than 

 those of the upper leaves. Involucrum usually few-leaved (1-3) very 

 deciduous (or wholly absent?). Fruit subcylindrical, scarcely so 

 broad as the calyx, callous at the base, shortly pedicellate, crowded 

 in the umbellules. Branches very fistulose. CE. peucedanifolia. 

 Smith ; Hooker; Lindley; Babington ; Eng. Bot. 347. CE. silaifolia. 

 Ball, in Annals. I cannot suppose this to be the silaifolia of Bieber- 

 stein, which is described with the lower leaves " valde abbreviatis 

 atque dilatatis." The lowest leaves which 1 have seen, show no 

 approach to this character ; but I have not seen the very lowest, or 

 early radical leaves. Many authors agree that it is not the peuceda- 

 nifolia of Pollich. And if it is neither of these species, I really know 

 not how to name it, except as a nameless species, which may appro- 

 priately take that of Smith, its early or first describer. Mr. Babington 

 is correct in considering it the silaifolia of Koch's Synopsis, if we 

 may judge by his description, particularly of the fruit. Amberley, 

 Sussex : Winch's Herb. Near Bedford : Sowerby, in Smith's Herb. 

 Banks of the Severn, near Deerhurst; also Tewkesbury Severn Ham, 



