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cylindrical with a corky base, but not narrowed at the top. — • 

 B. B. 348.— St. 2—3 feet high, branched. Outer fl. stalked, 

 mostly barren ; cal. very unequal ; radiant pet. small, oboordate 

 ■with an attenuate base, notch § their length. Fr. usually 

 slightly narrower downwards, in the middle of the umbel much 

 narrower and appearing to want the corky base ; cal. erect or 

 inflexed. General involucre ; partial of many leaves shorter 

 than the flowers. Distinguished from the preceding by its pet., 

 uniform leaflets, want of a general involucre, and fruit. — The 

 true name of this plant is very doubtful. — In freshwater marshes. 

 P. VI. E. 



5. €E. crocdta (L.) ; root of large fusiform tubers, radical 1. 

 2 — 3-pinnate, stem-1. pinnatifld, leaflets stalked roundish or 6b- 

 long-ioedgeshaped variously cut those of the upper 1. narrower, 

 fr. cylindrical oblong striate longer than its pedicel. — M. B. 2318. 

 — Poisonous. St. 3 — 5 feet high, much branched. L. large, 

 Its. broad. Inv.-l. various in number and shape. — Wet places. 

 P. VII. E. S. I. 



** Root of whorls of slender fibres. PHSLLAUDEirM L. 



6. OE. Phellan' drium (Lam.) ; st. erect fusiform below, 1. tri- 

 pinnate. Us. ovate pinnatifid cut spreading, of the submersed I. 

 ■multifid with capiMary diverging segments, umbels lateral oppo- 

 site to the leaves, fr. ovate. — E. B. 684. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, 

 very thick below, stoloniferous. Segments of the 1. many, &ie, 

 acute, pale green ; submersed 1. dark green. The flowering root 

 dies each year ; but the plant is continued by the offsets. — In 

 wet ditches and ponds. B. ? VII. — IX. Horsebane. E. S. I. 



7. (E.fluviat'ilis (Golem.) ; st. floating, 1. bipinnate, Its. simple 

 or pinnatifid, of the submersed I. cuneate cat pellucid with many 

 parallel veins, umbels lateral opposite to the 1, fr. broadly ob- 

 long.—^. N. H. xi. 188. E. B. 8. 2944.— A decumbent float- 

 ing plant well marked by the submersed Its. being divided into 

 finger-like acute broadly linear parallel segments deeply cut at 

 the end. Lts. of the upper 1. broader than those of (E. Phettan- 

 drium. — Streams. B. or P. VII. — ^IX. E. I. 



16. ^thu'ba Linn. Fool's Parsley. 



1. ^. Cyndpium (L.) ; partial involucre of 3 leaves longer 

 than their umbel, 1. all doubly pinnate, leaflets lanceolate de- 

 current pinnatifid.—^. B. 1192.— St. 4^18 in. high. L. del- 

 toid, dark green, lurid, stinking. General inv. ; partial long, 

 narrow, pendulous, all on one side. Herb poisonous. — Cultiva- 

 ted land. A. Vn. Vin. E.S.I. 



