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pale yellow-green, pungent leaves. Flowers in terminal, much invo- 
lucrated umbels. 
2. B. rotundifolium L. ( common H., or Thorow-wax) ; stem 
branched above, universal involucre wanting, partial involucres 
mucronate, leaves perfoliate roundish oval. E. B. t. 99. 
Corn-fields in England, on chalky soil. Abundant about Swaff- 
ham, and in Cambridgeshire. Streatley, Berkshire. 0. 6, 7. — 
Carpels with the interstices striate. 
3. B. tenuissimum L. ( slender H .) ; stem very much branched, 
leaves linear acute, umbels very minute few-flowered, partial 
ones usually shorter than the setaceous involucres. E. B. 
t. 478. 
Salt-marshes on the south and east coasts of England. Banks of 
the Dee, below Chester. Q. 8, 9. — Stems very wiry, slender. 
Leaves remote, very sharp, mostly 3-nerved. Umbels inconspicuous, 
often sessile and axillary. Carpels granulated between the 5 ribs, 
by which it differs from all our other species. 
4. B. *fulcatum L. ( falcate-leaved H .); stem erect branched, 
radical leaves oblong or obovate on long stalks, upper sessile 
linear-lanceolate, partial involucre of 5 lanceolate leaves as long 
as the flowers, universal 5-leaved. E. B. S. t. 2763. 
Norton Heath near Ongar, Essex, growing by the road-side for 
nearly a mile. I/.. 8. 
B. Fruit neither pricldy nor beaked , ovate or elliptical, rounded on 
a transverse section. ( Carpels separating, interstices ivith 
vittoe.) Albumen solid. (Gen. 16 — 23.) 
16. CEnanthe Linn. Water-Dropwort. (Tab. II. f. 16.) 
Fruit ovate-cylindrical, crowned with the long nearly straight 
styles. Carpels more or less corky, with 5 blunt, convex ribs, 
and single vitlce in the interstices. Cal.-teeth lanceolate. Pet. 
obcordate, with an inflected point, radiant. (Partial involucre 
of many rays.) Flowers of the circumference on long stalks and 
sterile : those of the centre sessile, or nearly so, and fertile . — 
Named from <>i voc, wine, and avVog, a flower-, alluding to the 
vinous smell of the blossoms. 
1. (E. fistula sa L. ( common IF.); sarmentose, stem-leaves 
pinnate, their main stalk as well as the stem cylindrical 
fistulose, umbels of very few rays, fruit turbinate. E. B. 
t. 363. 
Ditches and rivulets, common in England, rare in Scotland. 2f.. 
7—9. — Plant 2 — 3 feet high, remarkably tubular, throwing out 
runners. Root sometimes of fascicled knobs, sometimes of verticillate 
