UMBELLIFER2E. 



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high. Leaves 3, 4, or 5 times tern ate, 

 with, narrow-linear entire segments, 

 often above 2 inches long. Umbels large, 

 of 20 or more rays, with pale-yellow 

 flowers. Bracts of the general invo- 

 lucre very few or wanting ; those of the 

 partial involucre very narrow and shorter 

 than the pedicels. Fruit broadly oval, 

 near 3 lines long. 



In meadows and moist pastures, in 

 central and eastern Europe and Russian 

 Asia, or near the sea in western Europe. 

 Scarce in Britain : forms of the parsley 

 (Enanth or of the meadow Silaus have 

 been frequently mistaken for it : and 

 the only certain stations for the true 

 Peucedan are the salt-marshes of Kent 

 and Essex. Fl. summer and autumn. 



Fig. 428. 



2. Marsh Peucedan. Peucedanum palustre, Moench. 

 (Fig. 429.) 



(Selinum, Eng. Bot. t. 229. Hog's Fennel or Milk Parsley) 



Tall and erect like the last, but often 

 hairy at the base, and the juice is milky. 

 Leaves twice or thrice pinnate rather 

 than ternate, with much shorter seg- 

 ments, varying from oblong to linear, 

 and seldom exceeding half an inch. 

 Umbels not so large as in the sea P., 

 although consisting of as many rays. 

 Flowers white. Involucres, both gene- 

 ral and partial, of several lanceolate or 

 linear bracts, with fine points. Fruit 

 broadly oval, about 2 lines long. 



In wet meadows and marshes, in cen- 

 tral, eastern, and northern Europe and 

 Bussian Asia, to the Arctic Circle. Ap- 

 parently wanting in western France, 

 although it extends into Spain. Like 

 the sea P. very local in Britain and only 

 known for certain in the marshes of east- 

 ern England from Suffolk to Yorkshire. 



Fig. 429. 



Fl. late in summer. 



