PARSLEY FAMILY 



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Root of whorled 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. — Fl. July — September. 

 Biennial. 



7. (E. fluvidtilis (River Water-Dropwort).— A floating form, 

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

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

 September. Biennial. 



27. tEthijsa (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 smooth, leafy annual, distinguished by 

 having a brae and 1 — 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 aitho, I 

 burn, from its acrid character.) 



1. M. Cyndpium (Fool's Parsley). — A 

 slender plant, about a foot high, with dark 

 green, 2-pinnate leaves and terminal umbels 

 of white flowers, with 3 very long, harrow 

 bracteoles hanging down on the outer side 

 of each secondary umbel. — An evil- 

 smelling, poisonous, but common garden 

 weed. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



*28. Siler is represented by S. tri- 

 lobum, with long- stalked, 3-ternate smooth 

 radical leaves; ternate cauline leaves; 

 large terminal bracteate umbels ; and large 

 compressed fruits 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 ; bracts 1, 2, or none ; bracteoles many ; 

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

 the Latin name of some allied plant.) 



1. S.flavescens (Pepper Saxifrage, Sulphur-wort). — Stem angular, 

 1 — 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 Norfolk to give a bad flavour 

 to milk and butter." (Sir J. E. Smith.)— Fl. June — September. 

 Perennial. 



/ETHUSA CYNAPIUM 



{Foots Parsley). 



