The BRILTISH HEIRIB Aad 
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Geer R oN -U. SS XITE. 
SAL UaM, 
: g~HE flowers are placed in rounded umbells, compofed of extended flat parts on the fubdivi- 
fions of the branches; and there are at the bafe of the principal footftalks, and of their fubdi- 
vifions, feveral little leaves. Each flower is compofed of five petals, of equal fize, undivided at the 
top, and fomewhat bent. 
on one fide, 
The cup is very minute. 
The feeds are roundifh, and ftriated, but flatted 
Linnzeus places this among the pentandria digynia; the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
the flower. 
_ 1. Baftard Stone-Parfley. 
Sium foliis ferratis, 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The firft leaves are placed on long footftalks s 
and they are compofed of numerous, fhort, in- 
dented fegments, of a deep green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, flender, and 
branched, and of a fhining green. 
The leaves on it are divided into numerous feg- 
ments, and ferrated ; and their colour is a beauti- 
ful green. 
The flowers {and at the top of all the branches 
in little umbells : they are fmall and white. 
The feeds are very finall, ftriated, and brown; 
and they have a warm aromatick tafte. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sifon quod amonum officinis 
nofiris. Others, Armonum officinarum, and Petro- 
Jelinum Macedonicum Fuch/fi. 
The feeds are good againft flatulencies, and in 
nervous diforders, 
2. Honewort. 
Sium fegetum. 
The toot is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are extremely beautiful: about 
four rife from the root; and they fpread them. 
felves on the ground: they are long, moderately 
broad, and regularly pinnated: each is com- 
poled of about feven pairs of pinnee, with an odd 
one at the end; and thefe are elegantly ferrated, 
. and of a fine green. 
The ftalk is round, ftriated, and. branched. 
The leaves are placed alternately on it; and 
they are divided into narrow fegments ; but they 
have not the form or elegance of thofe at the root, 
The flowers are fmall and white, and the feeds 
are ftriated and crooked. 
It is common in corn-fields, and on ditch- 
banks, It flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Sium arvenfe, 
tale, and Selinum Sii folits. 
Others, Sinm fege- 
A pultice of the leaves is faid to be excellent 
againft hard-fwellings: it had its Englifh name 
thence ; hone being a term ufed by the country- 
people in fome places for fuch fwellings. 
3. Great Water-Parfnep. ; 
Sium aquaticum maximum. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The firft leaves are divided into fmall and fine 
fegments ; but thefe foon fade and perifh : in their 
places appear large pinnated leaves, 
The pinne are oblong, ferrated, and fharp- 
pointed ; and their colour is a bright green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, ftriated, branched, 
and two yards high. 
The leaves on this are placed alternately ; and 
they are pinnated and ferrated, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and they are 
formed into large umbells. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common about ditches, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sium latifolium. Others, 
Sium aquaticum maximum. 
4: Common upright Water-Parfnep. 
Sium erecium vulgare. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, and 
flender fibres, 
The firft leaves are large and pinnated: each 
is compofed of feveral pairs of pinnz, with an 
odd one at the end; and thefe are narrow, fharp- — 
pointed, ferrated, and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is upright, ftriated, branched, and 
two feet high.' 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they are like thofe from the root. 
The flowers are fmall and white 3 and they 
ftand in large umbells at. the tops of the ftalks 
and branches. F 
It is common in watery places, and flowers in 
July. “ 
C. Bauhine calls it Sivm five Apium paluftre fo- 
liis oblongis. : 
5. Creeping Water-Parfnep. 
Sium minus repens. 
The root is fmall and fibrous: 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, and weak : 
they lie upon the ground, or rife very imper- 
feétly from it ; and they take root at the joints. 
The leaves are pinnated; and the pinne are 
oblong, fharp-pointed, and ferrated, 
The flowers are fmall and white : they are dif 
pofed in little umbells; and are placed, not on the - 
tops of the branches, as inothers, but at the joints 
of the ftalks. 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
It is common in watery places, and flowers in 
June. ; 
Ray calls it Siam umbellatum repens. Others, 
Sium ad alas floridum. 
6. The 
