The BRITISH HERBAL, 
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6. The leaft Water-Parfnip: 
Sium minimum foliis variis, 
The root is compofed of many {mall fibres. 
The firft leaves are divided into a. multitude of 
extremely fine fegments. 
The ftalks are round, ftriated, branched, and 
about fix inches high. : 
The leaves are placed alternately on thefe; and 
they are formed of broad, fhort, and dentated feg- 
ments ; of a pale green, altogether unlike thofe 
which rife firft from the root. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and they 
ftand on the tops of the branches in little um- 
bells. 
The feeds are ftriated and brown. 
It is common in fhallow waters, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Sium pufillum foliis variis. Others, 
Sium minimum wnbellatum foliis variis: 
7- Long-leaved Water=Parfnip, 
Sium folio angufto longiore. 
The root ig long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres, 
The leaves that firft rife from it are large, and 
very beautiful: they are divided by threes into 
very long, narrow; and elegantly ferrated feg- 
ments. — j i oll 
The ftalk is tound, upright, ftriated, branched, 
and four feet high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on its but they 
are very beautiful, refembling thofe from the root. 
The flowers are {mall, and placed in Jarge um- 
bells, ? 
The feeds ate ftriated and brown. 
It is common about our fen-ditches, and elfe- 
wherein watery places. It flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sium erucefolio. Cthers, 
Sium olufatrifolin. Ray calls it Cicuta aquatica, 
He has given many accounts of peifons perifhing 
by eating it. y 
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BURNET SAXIFRAGE, 
POT MEP DINE LL A, OS AX TE Ree 
js [Rae flowers are difpofed in moderately large and rounded umbells, upon divided and fubdivided 
“branches ; and there are no leaves by way of cup, under either the principal branches or the 
fubdivifions. Each flower 1s compofed of five nearly equal petals; and they are heart-fafhioned at 
the ends, and bent. The cup is very fmall. The feeds are long and flender, ftriated on the back, 
and pointed. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia, the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
each flower. 
x. Great Burnet Saxifrage, 
Pimpinella faxifraga foliis varits. 
The root is long; lender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. ‘ 
The leaves that firft rife fromm it are pinnated 
in a very elegant manner : each is formed of three 
or four pairs of roundifh pina, with an odd one 
at the end; and thefe are ferrated, and of a fine 
green. 
The ftalk is upright, flender, ftriated, and di- 
vided into branches. 
The leaves on thefe are placed irregularly; and 
they are divided into five narrow fegments. 
The flowers dre white, and very {mall. 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
Icis found under warm hedges in our midland 
counties, and flowers in Auguft. 
C.Bauhine calls it Pimpinella foxifraga major um- 
bella Candida. 
2. Small Burnet Saxifrage. 
Pimpinella foxifraga minor: 
The root is long, flénder, white, and hung 
about with a few ftraggling fibres. 
"The ftalk is upright, but flender, divided into 
branches, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves ftand alternately on it; and they 
are divided into fmall fegments, and of a faint 
green. 
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The flowers aye little and white ; and the feeds 
are ftriated and brown. ~ 
It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in 
July. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Pimpinella faxifraga minors 
a name moft others have copied. 
The roots of this plant are powerfully diure- 
tick : they are good againft obftructions of the 
vifcera. : 
The feeds are carminative, and good in cho- 
licks. The root is beft taken in infufion; and 
the feeds in powder, five grains fora dofe. - 
3. Jagged-leaved Burnet Saxifrage, 
Pimpinella faxifraga foliis laciniatis. 
The toot is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are divided and jagged; and 
they are of a pale green. 
The ftalk is flender, upright, and not much 
| branched. 
The leaves on it ftand alternately, and are di- 
vided into many narrow fegments. 
The flowers are finall and white. 
The feeds are fmall, brown, and fharp to the 
tafte. % 
It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in 
Augutt. 
Ray calls it Pimpinella faxifraga bircina minor. 
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