246 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



with long hollow stalks bearing a few pinnate segments with 

 linear lobes ; umbels terminal, the central main one with three 

 rays, each supporting numerous sessile fertile flowers, and few 

 or no pedicellate barren ones, while those which terminate the 

 branches have usually five rays, and only pedicellate, barren 

 flowers ; partial involucres of a few small narrow bracts, the 

 general one either entirely wanting or reduced to a single 

 bract ; fruits in compact globular heads. Water Dropwort. 

 Wet meadows and marshes. Fl. July, August. 



CE. pimpinelloid.es : stems erect, firm, almost solid, 1-2 feet 

 high or more, with a few long branches ; leaves much more 

 divided than in the last; the upper ones usually with long, 

 narrow segments, those of the radical ones much shorter and 

 broader, and sometimes very numerous ; umbels of 8-15 rather 

 short rays; general involucre of a few small, linear bracts, 

 sometimes wanting, partial ones of several small, linear bracts. 

 Meadows, pastures, and marshes. Fl. July. 



CE. Lachenalii and CE. silaifolia are closely allied plants 

 found in salt marshes. 



** Segments of stem-leaves numerous, broadly wedge-shaped or 

 oblong. 



CE. crocata: stem stout, branched, 3-5 feet high; leaves 

 twice or thrice pinnate, the segments broadly cuneate or 

 rounded, deeply cut into 3-5 lobes ; umbels on long, terminal 

 peduncles, with 15-20 rays, the bracts of the involucres small 

 and linear, several in the partial ones, few or none under the 

 general umbel; fruit somewhat corky. Ditches, and sides of 

 streams. Fl. June, July. 



CE. Phellandrium : stem rooting at the base, erect, elon- 

 gated and creeping, or floating, the flowering branches erect 

 or ascending ; stem-leaves twice or thrice pinnate, with small 



