PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. CEnanthe. 71 



Engl Bot. V. 33. t. 2313. H'oodv. mppl. t. 267. Hook. Scot. 92. 



DonH.Br.\60. Jacq. Hort.Vitid. v.3.32. t.55. Bull. Fr.t. 113. 

 CE. cicutae facie Lobelii. Rail Sijn. 210. 

 CE, maxima, succo viroso, cicutae facie. Moris, v. 3. 288. sect. 9. 



t.7.f.2. 

 CE. cicutae facie, succo viroso croceo. Lob. Ic. 730./. 

 CE. succo viroso, cicutae facie Lobelio. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 193. f. 

 CE. tertia. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 220. f. 

 Filipendula cicutae facie. Ger. Em. 1059./. 



In watery places, osier holts, and about the banks of rivers, in va- 

 rious parts of Great Britain. 



Perennial. July. 



Root of many fleshy knobs, abounding with an orange-coloured, 

 fetid, very poisonous juice, such as exudes less plentifully from all 

 parts of the herb, when wounded. Stem from 2 to 5 feet high, 

 much branched, somewhat forked, leafy, round, furrowed, hol- 

 low. Leaves of a dark shining green, doubly pinnate, with ge- 

 nerally opposite, stalked, wedge-shaped, variously cut leaflets ; 

 those of the lowermost leaves rather the broadest ; all veiny and 

 smooth. Umbels large, terminal, stalked, convex, of many gene- 

 ral rays, and still more copious partial ones. General as well 

 as partial bracteas various in number and shape, either linear 

 and undivided, or dilated, and partially leafy. M. white, or tinged 

 with purple, very numerous and crowded, slightly radiant. Fruit 

 veiy different from the last, being smaller, almost cylindrical, 

 neatly and regularly striated, with 5 principal ribs to each seed, 

 and 4 intermediate ones, rather more slender and acute. Cal. 

 of 5 rather small, acute, erect or incurved teeth. 



Brood mares, according to Sir Thomas Frankland, sometimes eat 

 the root, and are poisoned by it. Ehret, the celebrated bota- 

 nical draughtsman, experienced a giddiness from the scent of 

 the herb. 



CE. prolifera of Linnaeus, Jacq. Hort. Find. v. 3. t. 62, seems by 

 the Linntean herbarium a mere variety of this ; but Jacquin's 

 figure of the seed, if correct, proves it essentially distinct. He 

 clearly represents 5 very prominent tumid angles, with deep 

 furrows between. 



5. CE. Phellandrium. Fine-leaved Water-dropwort. 



Leaflets all uniform, with narrow, wedge-shaped, cut, di- 

 varicated segments. Fruit ovate, with five broad ribs, 

 and narrow intermediate furrows. 



CE. Phellandrium. Spreng. Prodr. 37. 

 CE. aquatica. Latn. Diet. v. 4. 530. 



Phellandrium aquaticum. Linn. Sp. PI. 366. fVilld.v. I. 1444. Fl. 

 Br. 32 1 . Engl. Bot. v. 10. t. 684. Woodo. suppl. t. 266. Hook. 

 , Scot.92. VonH.Br. 161. Bull. Fr.t. 147. Ehrh. PI. Off. 24. 



