1887, ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 263 
CICUTA Linn.—Fruit ovoid to oblong, slightly flattened 
laterally: carpel with 5 strong flattish corky primary ribs 
(laterals somewhat larger): oil-ducts solitary in the intervals, 
two on the commissural side: stylopodium conical or de- 
pressed (figs. 97-100).—Smooth poisonous marsh perennials, 
with pinnately or ternately compound leaves, and white flow- 
ers, In summer. 
entham and Hooker, in Gen. Plant. i. 889, say. ‘‘ stylo- 
podia crassiuscula, depressa, integra ;’’ and Sereno Watson, 
in Bot. Calif. 1.260, says ‘* stylopodium depressed.” While 
_ this is apparently true in most specimens of mature fruit, in 
many younger specimens, and some mature ones, the stylo- 
podium will be found to be conical. In any event it is large 
and prominent, and may or may not become conical. When 
_ depressed, we have not found it entire. 
I. C. maculata L. Spec. 256. Stout, 2 to 6 feet high, stem 
streaked with purple: leaflets oblong-lanceolate (narrower 
above), coarsely serrate: fruit oval, 2 lines ong, wit 
_ strengthening cells and large oil-ducts; seed-section round- 
ish (figs. 97, 98).—Throughout our range and westward. 
2, C.bulbifera 1. Spec. 255. More slender, 1 to 3 feet 
high: leaflets linear, sparsely toothed ; upper axils bearing 
clustered bulblets: fruit (seldom matured) oblong, 2 lines 
long, with groups of strengthening cells beneath the ribs and 
smaller oil-ducts ; seed-section somewhat dorsally flattened. 
—Common northward. 
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tracted into a neck at summit, with very prominent ribs an 
minute calyx-teeth (figs. 101, 102).—Wet ground, Arkansas, 
Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. Fl. May, June. — 
2. C.pinnatum DC. 1. c. Smaller (in var. pumilum Eng. 
Sometimes becoming cespitose): cauline leaves pinnately 
