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773. Sataria linearis R. Peucedanon ter- 

 natum Nut. &.c. Stem virgate terete solid stri- 

 ate, leaves few remote on long petiols, folioles 3 

 sessile linear, very long and narrow, acute at 

 both ends ; umbels axillary and terminal, invol. 

 linear or none, umbelules 5-7 and pauciflore — 

 In Alabama and Georgia, perennial smooth, 

 commonly 3 leaves and 3 umbels, folioles 2 or 3 

 inches long — Var. longipes 5 or 6 leaves, lower 

 with petiols exceedingly long 10 to 18 inches, 

 umbels l-2terminal. Flowers pale yellowish 

 in both. 



774. KERASKOMION R.ombelif both invol. 

 2-3phyle, calix hardly Stoothed, petals obovate 

 plicate, stam. filif. styles short divaricate. Fruit 

 smooth globose as in Aethusa. Leaves decom- 

 posed^ umbels small^ flowers ichite, axils bul- 

 hose — united to Ciciita by the Authors, nearer 

 to Aethusa by invol. and seeds, quite peculiar 

 by the bulbose habit. The name was one of the 

 Greek terms for Aethusa or Oenanthe. 



775. Kerask. bulbifeuuivi R. Cicuta bulbif. 

 of most of our botanists — stem ramose terete 

 fistulose, lower leaves triternate, others biter- 

 nate or ternate, folioles linear serrate pectinate, 

 upper simple entire, bulbs gemmular squamu- 

 lose; umbels terminal na'vcd — a very singular 

 plant growing on banks of streams from Canada 

 to Virginia, described on the living plants, and 

 found very different from Cicuta. Flowers es- 

 tival, minute and white, sometimes hardly «nny 

 but bulbs profuse, they appear to reproduce the 

 plant, are real buds with oval acute scales (as 

 in buds of trees.) Stem bipedal, leaves some- 

 times subverticillate. It is doubtful whether 

 the linnean plant is not different, Linneus says 



