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S. angustifo'lium. Leaves winged; leafits irregularly lobed and 
serrated: involucrum wing-cleft: umbels on fruit-stalks, axillary : 
(stem upright. E.) 
Hook. FI Lond. — Jacq. Austr. 67 — E. Bot. 139— Riv. Pent. 79. S. minus — 
FI. Dan. 247— Park. 1241. 2. 
Involucrum , leafits either entire, or serrated, or wing-cleft. Huds. ( Calyx 
scarcely discernible. Fruit small. A less and weaker plant than the 
former. FI. Brit. E.) Flowers white. This and S. latifolium are readily 
distinguishable by the specific characters, but the trivial names of broad 
and narrow-leaved are ill appropriated and tending to mislead, for neither 
the leaves nor leafits of the latter are narrower than those of the former ; 
and if there be a difference, it is generally the reverse of what the trivial 
names would lead us to expect. ( Leaves more deeply serrated; stems 
only slightly striated, and rounder, (not angular,) than the preceding. 
Hook. E.) 
Narrow-leaved Skerret. Upright or Lesser Water-parsnep. 
(Welsh: Dyfr-foronyn culddail. E.) Common in ditches and rivulets. 
Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. King’s Park, and meadows and ditches 
near Edinburgh. Mr.'Brown. (In dykes east of Deal. Mr. W. Hutchin¬ 
son. Sm. Obs. In the Stour, and other rivers near Blandford. Pulteney. 
Kingston Pool, near Stafford. E.) P. July—Sept.* 
S. NODiFLobtuM. Leaves winged: leafits ovate, equally serrated: 
umbels lateral, opposite the leaves, sessile or on fruit-stalks: (stem 
procumbent. E.) 
(j E. Bot. 639. E.)— Woodv. 182— Tourn. 162— H. Ox. ix. 5. 3— Pet. 26. 3. 
(Smaller than the preceding. Fruit egg-shaped. Calyx very indistinct. 
E.) Stem and branches generally trailing or floating on the water, and 
striking root at the joints. Involucrum deciduous. Involucellum of five, 
six, or seven spear-shaped reflexed leaves. Flowers white. 
Procumbent Water-parsnep or Skerret. (Welsh: Dyfr-foronyn 
sypjlodeuog. E.) In rivers and ditches, frequent. P. July—Aug.t 
S. re'pens. Stems creeping, (with radicles; E.) leaves winged: 
leafits roundish, toothed, angular: (umbels on fruit-stalks, oppo¬ 
site the leaves. E.) 
(E . Bot. 1431. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 260—( FI . Dan. 1514. E.) 
Smaller in all its parts than S. nodijlorum. Leafits, the terminal one 
deeply divided into three lobes. Sibth. Leafits roundish, egg-shaped, 
unequally serrated, serratures bluntish, the lower edge also generally 
deeply cut in one place. 
(Creeping Water-parsnep. Welsh : Dyfr-foronyn ymlusgawl. Ditches 
and boggy meadows, rare. Found by Dr. J. Sibthorp in moist ground 
* Its active properties demand further inquiry. 
j- A young lady, six years old, was cured of an obstinate cutaneous disease, by taking 
three large spoonfuls of the juice twice a day ; and I have repeatedly given to adults three 
or four ounces every morning in similar complaints, with the greatest advantage. It is not 
nauseous, and children take it readily if mixed with milk. In the doses I have given, it 
neither disorders the head, the stomach, nor the bowels. 
