PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. CEnanthe. 
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Jacq. Austr. 397—(j E. Bot. 347. E.)— Matth. 867—Ger. 901 —Kniph. 8— 
H. Ox. ix. 7. 3—J. B. in. 2.191. 1—Pet. 2. 25. 8. 
(Root of fleshy tubercles intermixed with fibres. Stem angular, hollow, one 
to two feet high. E.) Root-leaves like those of parsley, but thicker, 
doubly winged, bfoad. Leafits laciniated. Stem-leaves less compound, 
scarcely double winged; leafits strap-shaped, channelled, very long. 
Umbels unequal. Involucrums general and partial , all setaceous. Blossom 
white, (or pinky. E.) somewhat radiated. Linn. Outer rays very long, 
and the florets barren. Woodw. Calyx teeth unequal. Styles /upright. 
(Umbellules thickly crowded, forming almost spherical heads when in 
fruit. Hook. E.) 
Parsley Water-dropwort. (Welsh: Dibynlorperllys ddail. E.) Slow 
streams, ponds, and ditches. Marshes, near Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. 
North side of Bredon Hill, Worcestershire. Nash. (Occasionally in 
ponds about Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. In the lane, and in the copse 
adjoining, going from Sturminster Marshal field to Lytchet; about Wey¬ 
mouth, and Poole. Pulteney. On the Salt marsh on the Wear, near 
Southwick; near Hartlepool, Durham. Mr. Winch. Cemlyn bay, An¬ 
glesey. Welsh Bot. Banks of the Clyde at Bowling bay, with A.Jistu - 
losa ; and below Dumbarton. Hopkirk, in Hook. Scot. 
The stations of Yarmouth, Cley, Shoreham, &c. named by Ray for j Peuceda- 
num officinale , are now generally allowed to belong to this plant. This 
rare species was first ascertained to be common about Cambridge and 
Wisbeach by the Rev. R. Relhan, by whom it was shown to Mr. Hem- 
sted and also communicated to Sir J. E. Smith. E.) P. July—Aug. 
(O. peucedanifo^lia. All the leafits strap-shaped : general involu- 
crum none : knobs of the roots egg-shaped, sessile. 
Pollich. 1. 889. t. 3— E. Bot. 348. 
Root crowded with fleshy knobs. Stem stronger and thicker than that of 
the preceding species, upright, slightly angular, striated, leafy, but little 
branched. Root-leaves doubly winged; those of the stem winged, all the 
root taken every morning, effected a cure in a very obstinate cutaneous disease ; but not 
without occasioning very alarming disturbance in the constitution. Phil. Tr. lxii. p. 469. 
Mr. Gough informs me, that the country people of Westmoreland apply a poultice of the 
herb to the ulcer which forms in the fore part of the cleft of the hoof in horned cattle, 
called the foul.—Sheep eat it. Cows and horses refuse it. (Four spoonfuls of the juice of 
this root are recorded by Mr. Watson, in 1758, to have occasioned the death of a person at 
Havant, in Hampshire. Dr. Pulteney observes that in this instance, as in some others 
which have fallen under his own observation, all the sufferers were affected with locked jaw. 
Pulteney v. 2. p. 309- It has proved fatal to brood mares. Sir T. Frankland. According 
to Ehret, the botanical draughtsman, the mere scent of this herb occasions vertigo. In 
some parts of France it is said to be employed to destroy moles. This is the “ Five-fin¬ 
gered Root ” prevalent in Pembrokeshire, and there used in cataplasms for the worst kind of 
whitlow. To counteract its deleterious effects on the human constitution, a quick emetic 
(as flour of mustard in warm water,) and venesection, are most effectual. To prevent its 
being mistaken for either Celery or Parsley, (both of which it resembles), delineations of each 
in immediate contrast are given pi. cccxlxii. Encyc. Brit. It has been advantageously 
prescribed in Edinburgh in inveterate scorbutic complaints; and the late Dr. Hope 
thought that in many cases an infusion of the leaves proved an useful emmenagogue. Some 
writers conjecture that the poison with which the Athenians took away the lives of male¬ 
factors was an inspissated juice compounded of this and other corrosive herbs. E.) 
