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773. Sat aria linearis R. Peucedanon ter- 
natum Nut. & c. Stem virgate terete solid stri- 
ate, leaves few remote on long petiols, folioles 3 
sessile linear, very long and narrow, acute at 
both ends ; umbels axillary and terminal, invol. 
linear or none, umbelules 5-7 and pauciflore — 
In Alabama and Georgia, perennial smooth, 
commonly 3 leaves and 3 umbels, folioles 2 or 3 
inches long — Var. longipes 5 or 6 leaves, lower 
with petiols exceedingly long 10 to 18 inches, 
umbels 1-2 terminal. Flowers pale yellowish 
in both. 
774. KERASKOMION R.ombelif. both invol. 
2-3phyle, calix hardly 5toothed, petals obovate 
plicate, stam. filif. styles short divaricate. Fruit 
smooth globose as in Aethusa. Leaves decom- 
posed, umbels small , flowers white , axils hul- 
bose — united to Cicuta by the Authors, nearer 
to Aethusa by invol. and seeds, quite peculiar 
by the bulbose habit. The name vyas one of the 
Greek terms for Aethusa or Oenanthe. 
775. Kerask. bulbifekum R. Cicuta bulbif. 
of most of our botanists — stem ramose terete 
fistulose, lower leaves triternate, others biter- 
nate or ternate, folioles linear serrate pectinate, 
upper simple entire, bulbs gemmular squamu- 
lose ; umbels terminal naked — a very singular 
plant growing on banks of streams from Canada 
to Virginia, described on the living plants, and 
found very different from Cicuta. Flowers es- 
tival, minute and white, sometimes hardly any 
but bulbs profuse, they appear to reproduce the 
plant, are real buds with oval acute scales (as 
in buds of trees.) Stem bipedal, leaves some- 
times subverticillate. It is doubtful whether 
the linnean plant is not different, Linneus says 
