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*i6. Falcaria, represented by F. vulgaris, a stout, glabrous 

 plant with evenly serrate leaflets, resembling Cicuta virbsa, which 

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



17. Sium (Water-Parsnip). — Glabrous plants; leaves pinnate, 

 serrate; umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles many, flowers 

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



1. .S. latifblium (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 



flowers, with large leafy 

 lanceolate brads and 

 bracteoles. — Watery 

 places ; not common. 

 — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



2. S. erectum (Nar- 

 row-leaved Water-Pars- 

 nip). — Smaller than 

 the last, and resemb- 

 ling Apium nodiflbrum, 

 from which it may be 

 distinguished by its 

 very irregularly serrate 

 cauline leaves, its um- 

 bels, which are not only 

 opposite the leaves, 

 but also stalked and 

 larger, and its reflexed, 

 and often cut, brads 

 and bracteoles. — Watery 

 places ; common. — Fl. August. 



18. ^Egopodium (Gout-weed). — Glabrous; leaves 2 — 3-ternate, 

 with broad leaflets ; umbels compound, many rayed ; bracts and 

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

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

 leaves.) 



1. AL. Podagrdria (Gout-weed, Bishop's-weed, Herb Gerard). — 

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

 high, hollow, furrowed ; leaves mostly radical, large, 2 — 3-ternate ; 

 p 



,egop6dium podagrAria {Common Gout-weed). 



Perennial. 



