Hydrocotyle.] UMBELLiFEEiE. 195 



1. S. europma, L. Wood Sanicle. "Lower leaves palmate 

 mth the lobes trifid incise-serrate, fertile flowers aU sessile." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 160. E. B. t. 98. 



In moist shady places, woods, thickets and groves ; abundant. Fl. May, June. 



III. Hydbocotyle, Linn. White-rot. 



_ " Fruit of 3 flat orbicular carpels, each with 5 more or less dis- 

 tinct filiform ribs. Calyx-teeth obholQiQ. Petals OY&te. (Leaves 

 simple)." — Br. Fl. 



1. H. vulgaris, L. White-rot. Marsh Pennywort. " Leaves 

 peltate orbicular somewhat lobed and crenate, heads of about 5 

 flowers."— .Br. Fl- p. 159. E. B. t. 751. 



In damp marshy, boggy or peaty meadows, wet rushy pastures, on spongy 

 heaths, sides of drains, ditches and clear rills ; very Irequent. Fl. May— August. 



F!. J/erf.— Abundantly in Sandown level, on the marshy skirts of Lake common. 

 Colwell heath. Very abundant on Apse heath, in loose moist sand. 



W. il/ec/. — [Mooitown bog, Brighstone, plentifully. Dr. Bell-Sailer, Edrs.] 



B. Umbels compound or perfect. 



a. Fruit neither -prickly, beaked nor winged. 



* Syndicarp-\ more or less laterally compressed but not flattened. 



TV. CoNiuM, Linn. Hemlock. 



" Fruit broadly ovate. Carpels with 5 prominent waved or cre- 

 nated ribs, without vittce. Albumen furrowed. Calyx-teeth obso- 

 lete. Petals obcordate. (Involucre of few leaves ; partial of 3 

 leaves on one side)." — Br. Fl. 



1. C. maculatum, L. Common Hemlock. " Stem glabrous 

 spotted, leaves tripinnate, leaflets lanceolate pinnatifid with acute 

 and often cut segments." — Br. Fl. p. 176. E. B. t. 1191. Jacq. 

 Fl. Aust. ii. 36, t. 156. 



In moist woods, meadows and pastures, on hedgebanks, waste ground, and 

 amongst ruins ; not of very general occurrence. FL June — August. Fr. August, 

 September. If. 



E.Med. — About Ryde, rare. I have found a plant or two in the Dover 

 marshes and about the ruins of Quarr abbey. Just out of Brading, towards San- 

 down. Very common at Ventnor, Bonchurch and other parts of the Undeicliff. 

 Abundantly along the top of a field-fence at the foot of Yaverland down and oppo- 

 site Newlands copse. About Newchurch and Mersley or Messley. [At Brading 

 quay, A. G. More, Esq. Near Carpenters, on the road to Brading ; also at St. 

 Helen's, opposite the gate of E. Daws, Esq. : Dr. Bell-Sailer. — Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Swainston park, in plenty. In the high wood at Swainston, spa- 

 ringly. Abundant in hedges just out of Yarmouth, towards Shalfleet. [In a 

 hedge at Motlistone, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 



\ Syndicarp (from o-w, Slf and xap'^oi, implying the the union or consolida- 

 tion of a double or twofold fruit), the entire fruit of an umbelliferous or umbellate 

 plant, composed of two united hemicarps, carpels or mericarps of authors. 



