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Root of whorlcd fibres ; stem erect, 2 — 3 feet high, very thick at 

 its base, with runners ; leaves 3-pinnate, the lower ones sub- 

 merged with diverging, hair-like segments : umbels lateral, sub- 

 sessile. — Ditches and ponds ; frequent. — V\. July— September. 

 Biennial- 



7. CE. fluvidlilis (River Watcr-Dropwort)'.— A floating form, 

 with 2-puinate leaves, the submerged ones pellucid with parallel, 

 many-veined leaflets. — In running water, in the south. — Fl. July — 

 September. Biennial. 



27. .Ethu.sa (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 smooth, leafy annual, distinguished by 

 having a brae and i — 5 bracteoles drooping 

 and all on the outer side of the umbel, a 

 globose fruit with sharp ridges and reflexed 

 styles. (Name from the Greek aiilio, I 

 burn, from its acrid character.) 



T. .&'. Cyndpmm (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 slender plant, about a foot high, with dark 

 green, 2-pinnate leaves and terminal umbels 

 of white floK'ers, with 3 very long, narrow 

 bracleoles hanging down on the outer side 

 of each secondary umbel. — An evil- 

 smcUing, poisonous, but common garden 

 weed. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



*2S. SiLER is represented by 5. Iri- 

 lobnm, with long-stalked, 3-ternate smooth 

 radical leaves ; ternate eaiiline leaves ; 

 large terminal braeteate umbels ; and large 

 compressed fn/its with one vitta under 

 each secondary ridge, which is naturalised 

 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire. 



29. SiLAUS (Pepper Saxifrage). — Gla- 

 brous plants ; leaves pinnately decom- 

 pound ; umbels compound ; braets i, 2, or none ; bracleoles many; 

 flowers yellowish ; fruit ovoid, with slightly winged ridges. (Xame, 

 the Latin name of some allied plant.) 



I. S. flavescetis (Feppei Saxifrage, Sulphur-wort). — Stem angu]ar, 

 I — 2 feet high; leaves 3-pinnate, with narrow opposite leaflets; 

 umbels terminal ; flowers dull, pale yellow, small ; fruit dark brown. 

 Meadows ; frequent. — " The whole plant being foetid when 

 bruised, is supposed in some parts of Norfolkjp give a bad flavour 

 to mi.'k and butter." {Sir J.E. 5;/«'rt.) — F-l. June — September. 

 Perennial. 



(Facers I'ai-slir). 



