LXXXI. 



.ETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 



Common FooVs-Parsley. 



Class Y. Pentandria.— Or^er II. Digynia. 



Nat. Ord. UmbelliferjE. 



GexN. Char. Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate, with an 

 inflexed point. Fruit ovato- globose. Carpels with 

 five elevated, thick, acutely-keeled ridges, the lateral 

 ones marginal, and a little broader, girt by a somewhat 

 winged keel. Channels with single vittae. Seed semi- 

 globose. — General involucre none ; partial of three 

 unilateral, drooping leaves. 



Spec. Char. Leaves uniform ; leaflets wedge-shaped, 

 decurrent, with lanceolate segments. 



SYNONYMES. 



f ^thusa minor, petroselino similis. Bauh. Pin, 160. 



I Ciciitaria tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 1003. Rati Syn. 215. 

 r .. j Cicutaria fatua. Lob. ic. ii. 280. 



Cicuta minor sive fatua. Park Theatr. 913. 

 Coriandrum Cynapium. Crantz Fl. Austr. 221. 



^ .-Ethnsa Cynapium. Lin. Sp. PI. 36?. Eng. Bot, 1. 1 192. 



French Cigue des marais ; Petite CigiJe ; Faux Persil. 



Italian Cicuta minore ; Petrosemolo del cane. 



Span. ^ Port. Cicuta menor. 



German Gartenschierling ; Hundspetersilie. 



Dutch Honds-petersilie. 



Belgic Kleine Dulle-kervel ; Wilde Eppe ; Wilde Petersilie. 



liuss JMedwjeschei koren. - 



Descriptiox, — The root is annual, slender, tapering, nearly 

 white, with several creeping, filiform fibrils. The stem is erect. 



