126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



J to ^ inch across, less conspicuously radiant than in (E. fistulosa. 

 Cremocarp light-brown, | inch long, Avith the ridges slightly pro- 

 minent, obtuse, tbe marginal ones corky, thickened, and contiguous; 

 and connected at the base by a whitish corky ring, which bow- 

 ever is scarcely observable when tbe fruit is quite mature. Plant 

 glabrous, green. 



Callow-fruited Water-Dropicort. 



French, Qfuanthefaux Boucage. 



SPECIES III.— (ENANTHE SIL AIFOLI A. Bkh.t 

 Plate DXCV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1893 ] 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3393. 

 <E. peucedaniifolia, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 347 (non roll). 

 (E. Smithii, //. C. Watson, Phyt. 1845, p. 14. 



Root -fibres clavate, fusiform or fusiform-cylindrical. Stem 

 erect, tougb, furrowed, bollow, not constricted at tbe nodes, without 

 stolons or capillary fibres above tbe tubers. Radical leaves with 

 the leaflets very deeply pinnatifid, cut or entire, with short strap- 

 shaped-linear acute lobes; upper stem-leaves longer tban their 

 solid sheathing petioles, with the leaflets or ultimate lobes elongate 

 linear-strapshaped and acute. Umbels of 4 to 12 rays, thickened in 

 fruit ; umbellules dense, convex above in fruit. Involucre of 1 

 to many leaves (sometimes absent ?), leaves generally deciduous. 

 Cremocarp obconical-prismatic, not contracted at the top, with a 

 callous ring at the base. Styles about two-thirds the length of the 



fruit. 



In moist meadows and damp places by the sides of roads and 

 ditches. Rare. It occurs in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Huntingdon, 

 Cambridgeshire (where it is now believed to be extinct), Gloucester- 

 shire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, 

 and Bedfordshire. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Very similar to (E. pimpinelloides, but generally a larger plant, 

 with stouter, more branched stems, and the segments of the lower 

 and upper leaves more alike; the root, fibres, though very vari- 

 able in form, thickening gradually, and from the base, while in 

 (E. pimpinelloides the enlargement is generally like a large brad 

 attached by a thread. The rays of the umbel are longer and not 

 so numerous, so that the umbellules arc not contiguous, more 

 thickened in fruit, especially towards the apex ; pedicels more 

 thickened in fruit. The cremocarp is more narrowed towards the 



