64 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. ^thusa. 



rather the largest. Filam. thread-shaped, horizontal, 

 shorter than the corolla. Anth. roundish. Germ, inferior, 

 ovate, deeply fuiTowed, rather pointed. Styles short, 

 spreading, tumid and ovate at the base ; subsequently re- 

 flexed, scarcely elongated. Stigmas obtuse. Fruit ovate, 

 crowned by the closely reflexed permanent styles, without 

 any VisWAeJloral receptacle. Seeds ovate, moderately con- 

 vex, with 5 tumid, rounded, acutely keeled, ribs, and 

 deep acutangular interstices; their inner surfaces dilated, 

 flat, marked with a pair of coloured longitudinal lines, 

 and closely pressed together. 

 Annual herbs, fetid and poisonous, scarcely aromatic. Stem 

 branched, erect. Leaves repeatedly ternate, pinnatifid. 

 Umbels terminal, stalked, of many unequal rays, both 

 general and partial. General Bracteas none ; partial 

 from 3 to 5, narrow, unilateral, pendulous. Fl. here and 

 there abortive. 



1. 2Sj. Cynapium. Common Fool's-parsley. Lesser 

 Hemlock. 



Leaves uniform ; leaflets wedge-shaped, decurrent, with lan- 

 ceolate segments. 



M. Cynapium. Linn. Sp. PI. 367. WiUd. v. 1 . 1446. Fl. Br. 323. 



Engl. Bot. V. 17. t. 1192. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. t. 18. Hook. Scot. 



92. Bull.Fr. t.9l. 

 M. n. 765. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 336. 



Coriandrum Cynapium. Roth Germ. v. 1. 130. v. 2. p. 1.346. 

 Cynapium. Riv. Pentup. Irr. t. 76. 

 Cicutaria tenuifolia. Raii Syn. 21.5. Ger. Em. 1063.y. 

 C. apii folio. Bauh. Hint. v. 3. p. 2. 180./. 

 C. fatua. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 280./. 

 Cicuta minor, petroselino similis. Bauh.Pin.lSO. Moris. v. 3. 290. 



sect.9. t.7.f.2. 



In gardens and cultivated fields, a common weed. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root tapering, whitish. Herb erect, of a dark lurid green, fetid and 

 reckoned dangerous. Stem round, striated, leafy, often purplish, 

 a foot high. Leaves with short sheathing footstalks, all doubly 

 pinnate, with decurrent, pinnatifid leaflets. Umbels stalked, ter- 

 minal, spreading and flattish, distinguishable at first sight by 

 their long, narrow, pendulous partial bracteas, and the want of 

 general ones. Fl. pure white, rarely partially abortive. Fruit 

 pale brown. 



Great ignorance and carelessness can alone cause this weed to be 

 mistaken for the Garden Parsley j yet such an accident some- 



