(Enanthe-I PENTANDRIA — DIGYNIA. 11.5 



2. B. * rotundifdlium, L. common Hares Ear, or T/iorotv-tvax); 

 universal involucre wanting, partial involucres mucronate, leaves 

 perfoliate roundish-oval. B. Bot. t. 99. 



Corn-fields in England, on challiy soil. Abundant about SwafFham, 

 and in Cambridgeshire. Streatly, Berkshire. Fl July. . 



3. B. tennissimum, L. {slender Hares Ear) ; stem very much 

 branched, leaves linear, umbels lateral very minute few-flowered 

 shorter (usually) than the setaceous involucres. E. Bot. t. 478. 



SHlt-marshes on the south and east coasts of England. Banks of the 

 Dee, below Chester. Mrjas. Price and iMr J. E. Bowman.— Fl. Aug. 

 Sept. 0. — Stems very wiry, slender. Leaves remote, very sharp, 

 mostly 3-nerved. Umbels inconspicuous, often sessile, axillary. 



4. B. * falcdtum, L. {falcale-leaved Hares Ear') ; stem erect 

 panicled, radical leaves obovate on long stalks, upper sessile lin- 

 ear-lanceolate, partial involucre of 5 lanceolate leaves as long as 

 the flowers, universal 3-leaved. Corder, in E Bot. Suppl. t. -2762. 



Norton Heath, near Ongar, Essex, growing by the road-side for nearly 

 a mile. Mr T. Corder, Jun. Fl. Aug. If . — ftis'observed by Mr Forster, 

 that Gerarde and Parkinson mention this as a native of Britain, but 

 coupled with other species, such as B. lomjifolium and B. rigidum, L., 

 which have never been considered as aboriginal natives by any other 

 author; so that their authority, in this instance, is perhaps little to be de- 

 pended upon. 



64. CEna'nthe. Linn. AVater-Dropwort. 



1. (El. Jistulosa, L. {common Water- Droptcort) ; root stolo- 

 niferous, stem-leaves pinnated their main stalk as well as stem 

 cylindrical fistulose, umbels of very iew rays, E. Bot. t. 863.; 



Ditches and rivulets, common. Fl. July, Aug. If. . — Plant 2 3 feet 



high, remarkably tubular and fistulose. Stem-leaves distant ; the leaflets, 

 which are 'lew and small, are confined to the upper extremity of the leaves. 

 Umbels small ; the fruit large, turbinate, corky, tipped with the long 

 rather diverging styles, and forming dense globose heads as large as a 

 marble. Univ. involucre often wanting. 



2. (E. pimpinelloides, L. (Parslet/ Water- Droptvort) ; leaflets 

 of the radical leaves wedge-shaped cloven, those of the stem 

 linear entire very long, universal involucre of several linear 

 leaves. E. Bot. t. 347. 



Salt-marshes, not unfrequent ; less common in Scotland, and princi- 

 pally confined to the West coast. Fl. July. If. — 2 feet or more high. 

 Umbellules thickly crowded, forming almost sphserical heads with their 

 almost elliptical fruit, tapering at the base, straited, but not corky. 



3. CE. peucedanifolia, Pol!. (Sulp/uir-iveed Water- Dropicort); 

 leaflets all linear, universal involucre none, knots of the root 

 sessile elliptical. {Sm.) E. Bot. t. 348. 



Fresh-water ditches and bogs in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Suf- 

 folk. In Sussex. Fl. June. If. — Allied to the last ; found only, as it 

 appears, near fresh water. My specimens of this are from the Sussex 

 station, and far from perfect or satisi'actory. Whether this and the pre- 

 ceding be distinct or not, they are certainly not the species so called by 



