PARSLEY FAMILY 



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*i6. Falcaria, represented by F. ini/gdris, a stout, glabrous 

 plant with evenly serrate kajle/s, resembling CiciUa virosa, whicti 

 occurs as a cornlield casual in Kent and Hampshire. Perennial. 



17. SiUM (\Vater-Parsnip). — Glabrous plants; leaves pinnate, 

 serrate ; jimbeh compound ; bracts and bracieoles many, flowers 

 white. (Name said to be connected with a Keltic word siw, water.) 



1. S. lailfblium (Broad-leaved Water-Parsnip). — A stout plant, 

 with a furrowed stem, 3 — 5 feet high; pinnate leaves of 5 — 13 

 large, distant, lanceo- 

 late, acute, evenly ser- 

 rate leaflets : and large, 

 flat-topped, many-rayed 

 umbels of small white 



flo7L'ers, with large leafy 

 lanceolate braets and 

 bracteoles. — \\^atery 

 places ; not common. 

 — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



2. S. creel i/m (Nar- 

 row-leaved Water-Pars- 

 nip). — Smaller than 

 the last, and reseml)- 

 ling Apium jiodlflbrnm, 

 from which it may be 

 distinguished by its 

 very irregularly serrate 

 cauline leaves, its 11111- 

 bels, which are not only 

 opposite the leaves, 

 but also stalked and 

 larger, and its reflexed, 

 and often cut, bracts 

 and bracteoles.— ^^'atery 

 places ; common. — Fl. 



iS. .Egop6dr'-M (Gout-weed). — Glabrous; leaves 2 — 3-ternate, 

 with broad leaflets ; umbels compound, many raj-ed ; bracts and 

 bracteoles few or none ; flowers white. (Name from the Greek 

 alx, a goat, pous, a foot, from some fancied resemblance of the 

 leaves.') 



I. ,£. Fodagrdria (Gout-weed, Bishop's-weed, Herb Gerard). — 

 Rhhome creeping, white, pungent, aromatic ; stem about a foot 

 hi'^h, hollow, furrowed ; leaves mostly radical, large, 2 — 3-ternate ; 

 p 



.tGOr6DlUM rODAGR.ua.v {Co7;!n;on Cjitt-'wccd). 



August. Perennial. 



