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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Sison. 
called Cowley Bottom, near Oxford. On the bank of a pond at Fisher- 
row, five miles from Edinburgh, and in abundance on the moist parts of 
Guillon Links, East Lothian. Dr. Hope. (Goldington Green, and Ste- 
vington Bogs, Bedfordshire. Abbot. Sides of ditches on Datchet Com¬ 
mon, Bucks. Mr. Gotobed, in Bot. Guide. Coldham Common, Cam¬ 
bridgeshire. Relhan. On Hatfield Forest, and in the road from Hey- 
bridge to Maldon. Mr. E. Forster, jun. In Tothill Fields, Middlesex, 
ditto. Ditches about Beverley. Teesdale. Near the coal-pits on Bovey 
Heathfield, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. Bogs on the side of Abberley 
Hill, Worcestershire: Cookhill near Alcester. Purton. On the west end 
of Towyn y Capel, Holyhead. Welsh Bot. E.) P. June—July. 
SI'SON. # Involucrum about four leaves : Fruit ovate, striated : 
Styles reflexed. 
S. amo'mum. Leaves winged: umbels upright; (with about four rays. 
E.) 
Jacq. Hort. iii. 17—( E. Bot. 954. E.)— Blackw. 442— J. B. iii. 2, 107— 
Fuchs. 655—Trag. 461 —Dod. 69 7. l—Ger. Em. 1016. I—Park. 914. 1— 
H. Ox. ix. 5. 7. 
Stem (about a yard high, E.) cylindrical, upright, scored, smooth. Leaves 
winged. Leajits egg-shaped, cut, serrated, but the uppermost more finely 
divided. Umbel of four spokes, the fourth in the centre. Involucrum of 
three leaves. Involucellum of five leaves, very small. Linn. Root-leaves of 
several pairs of little leaves, the terminating one cloven into three. Stem- 
leaves from two to three pairs; upper leaves of two pairs, deeply and 
irregularly laciniated, the lowermost pair winged, and much longer. Um¬ 
bels pendulous before flowering. Woodw. Umbels mostly terminal. 
Flowers white. {Herb strongly nauseous to the smell. Seeds aromatic 
and pungent. E.) 
(Hedge Honewort. E.) Bastard Stone-parsley. Moist woods and 
hedges. P. Aug.—Sept.—(A. or B. Sm. E.)+ 
S. se'getum. Leaves winged: (leafits roundish, numerous: E.) umbels 
pendulous. 
Jacq. Hort. 134— E. Bot. 228— Ger. Em. 1018 —Park. 932— H. Ox. ix. 5. 
row 2. 6. 
{Herb slightly aromatic. Stems spreading, twelve to eighteen inches high, 
branched, cylindrical scored, rush-like, leafy. Calyx five-toothed. Fruit 
egg-oblong, ribbed, aromatic. E.) All the leaves with numerous pairs 
of little leaves. Umel spokes three to five, very unequal. Umbellules 
spokes six or seven, very unequal. Wood. Little leaves egg-shaped, 
deeply cut and serrated; serratures finely pointed. St. Petals minute, 
white (or pinkish involute. Anthers reddish. E.) 
(Corn Honewort. E.) Corn Parsley. Corn-fields and hedge-sides 
in chalk and clay. Binham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. (Rare in the midland 
counties. On a ditch bank between Hanbury and Droitwich; Badsey, 
Worcestershire. Purton. Grass-field in the Isle of Tirey. Dr. Walker. 
Hook. Scot. E.) A. sometimes B.—July. 
* (From ereiw, aeicroj, to shake, as agitated by waters. E.) 
•f (The seeds, warm and aromatic to the taste, are put into Venice treacle, as a substitute 
for the real Amomwm. E.) 
