The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS XIII. 
S I U M. 
AT^^-HE flowers are placed in rounded unibdls, compofed of extended flat parts on the fubdivi- 
X fions of the branches ; and there are at the bafe of the principal footll:alks, and of their fubdi- 
Vifions, Icveral Httle leaves. Each flower is compofed, of five petals, of equal fize, undivided at the' 
top, and fumewhac bent. The cup is very minute. The feeds are roundilh, and fl:riated, but flatted 
on one fide. 
i-innaeus places x\\\% iimQr\^i\\t fen tandrla. di^yn'm; the threads being five, and ihe flyles two in 
the flower. 
I. Bafl:ard Stone-Parfley. 
Sium foliis ferralis. 
The root is long, (lender, and white. 
The firft leaves are placed on long footftalks ; 
and they are compofed of numerous, ftiort, in- 
dented legnients, of a deep green. 
Tlie Italk is round, upright, flender, and 
branched, and of a fhjning green. 
The leaves on it are divided into numerous feg- 
ments, and ferrated ; and their colour is a beauti- 
ful green. 
The flowers Hand at the top of all the branches 
in little umbells : they are hiiall and white. 
The feeds are very fmall, fl:riated,_and brown ; 
and they have a warm aromatick tafte. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
Augufl. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sifon quod amomm ofjicinis 
mftris. Others, Amonum oficinanm, and Fclro- 
fdinum Macedonicu7n Fuchfii. 
The feeds are good againft flatulencies, and in 
nervous diforders. 
2. Honewort. 
Slum fegetim. 
The root Is long, flender, and furniflied with 
a few fibres. 
The flrfl leaves are extremely beautiful : about 
four riie. from the roof; and they fp read them- 
felves on the ground : they are long, moderately 
broad, and regularly pinnated : each is com- 
pofed of about feven pairs of pinnae, with an odd 
one at the end and thefe are elegantly ferrated, 
and of a fine green. 
The ftalk is round, flirintcd, and branched. 
The leaves arc placed alternately on it ; and 
they are divided into narrow fegments but they 
have not the form or elegaoc-e of thofe at the root. 
The flowers are fmall and white, and the feeds 
are ftriated and crooked. 
It is common in corn fields, and on ditch- 
banks. It flowers in July. 
Kay calls it Sium drvciife. Others, S'nm fegc- 
iaky and Sellmim Sn foUis. 
. A -puUice of the leaves is faid to be excellent 
agaihtt hard-fwelllngs : it had its Englifli name 
thence ; hone being a term ufed by the country- 
people in fome places for fuch fweilings. 
3, Great Water- Parfnep. 
".J Sium aqtiaticum maximum. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The firft leaves are divided into finall and fine 
fegments ; but thefe foon fade and perifia ; in their 
places appear large pinnated leaves. 
The pinnse are oblong, ferrated, and fliarp- 
pointed ; and their colour is a bright green, 
Th° ftalk is round, upright, ftriated, branched, 
and two yards high. 
The leaves on this are placed alternately-, and 
they are pinnated and ferrated, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers are fmall and white ; and they are 
formed into large umbells. 
The feeds are final! and brown. 
It is common about ditches, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sium lalifolium. Others, 
Slum (iqiialicu-m maximum. 
4. Common upright Water- Parfnep. 
Simn ereSlim •viilgare. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, and 
flender fibres. 
The firfi: leaves are large and pinnated : each 
is compofed of feveral pairs of pinnje, with an 
odd one at the end ; and thefe are narrow, fliarp- 
pointed, ferrated, and of a pale green. 
The fl:alk is upright, ftriated, branched, and 
two feet high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they are like thofe from the root. 
The flowers are finall and white ; and they 
liand in large umbells at the tops of the fialks 
and branches. 
It is common tn watery places and flowers in 
J^iiy- 
C. f'auhinc calls it 5'/;;;;; five Jpiim paluftre fs- 
i.is obloiigis. 
5. Creeping Water- Parfnep. 
Sium minus repens. 
The root is fmall and fibrous; 
The fl:alks are numerous, flender, and weak: 
they lie upon the ground, or rife very imper- 
fectly from it ; and they take root at the joints. 
The leaves are pinnated ; and the pinns: are 
oblong, ftiarp -pointed, and ferrated. 
The flowers are fmall and white : they are dif- 
pofed in little umbells ; and are placed, not on the 
tops of the branches, as ia]others, but at the joints 
of the fialks. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common in watery places, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Sium umbellatufn repeiis. Others, 
Sium ad alas fioridum. 
6. The 
