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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. CEnanthe. 
leafits strap-shaped, sharp-pointed. Umbels with stronger and less nu¬ 
merous spokes than in O. pimpinelloides. Umbellules many-flowered, 
level , flowers often red about the centre, white towards the circumference. 
Partial involucrum many-leaved. Calyx rather upright, very irregular. 
FI. Brit. 
Upon the authority of Pollich, Smith, and Afzelius, we detach this plant 
from the varieties of O.fistulosa, with which it has long been confounded. 
The Author observes, “the plants I gathered in the Isle of Wight, cor¬ 
respond with the figure of Pollich, and the leafits are three or four inches 
long, but O.Jistulosa has leafits rarely more than half or three fourths of 
an inch in length. The bulbs of the roots seem to differ in situation as the 
plant grows in more or less water, in a thin or stiff mud, or in a garden 
soil; so that their being placed in a bundle at the bottom of the stem, or 
on the fibres of the roots at a greater or less distance, are circumstances 
too variable to establish a character.” 
Sulphur-wort. Water-dropwort. In fresh-water ditches and bogs. 
Granchester meadow, Cambridgeshire. Rev. R. Relhan. Near Bury. Mr. 
Mathew. About Bedford. Rev. Dr. Abbot. Bog near Portenscale, Cum¬ 
berland. By the shores of Wear, at Southwick, Durham. Mr. Winch. 
Near Freshwater Gate, in the Isle of Wight. In a gorsy field by Small 
Heath House, near Birmingham. E.) P. May—June. 
(O. Piiellan'drium. Leaflets all uniform, with narrow, wedge- 
shaped, cut, divaricated segments. Fruit ovate, with five broad 
ribs, and narrow intermediate furrows. Sm. E.) 
{E. Bot. 684— FI. Dan. 1154. E.)— Riv. Pent. 65. Phellandr — Woodv. 266— 
Blackw. 570— Dod. 591— Lob. Obs. 424. 1 , and Ic. i. 735. 1— Ger. Em. 
1063 —Park. 933. 6— Pet. 28. 4—H. Ox. ix. 7 —row 1 . 7—Ger. 905. 
{Root fusiform, thick, with whorls of fibres. Stem hollow, bending, branched, 
leafy, wide apart, furrowed. Leaves spreading very wide, triply winged, 
laciniated. The outer jlorets larger, and irregular. Calyx five-leaved. 
FI. Brit. E.) Leaves under the surface of the water long and hair-like. 
Woodw. Stem very thick, two or three feet high. Petals white. 
(Fine-leaved Water-dropwort. Horsebane. Irish: Fealla bog. E.) 
(O. Phellandrium. Spreng. Delana. Sm. Eng. FI. O. aquatica. Lam. 
Phellandrium aquaticum. Linn. Lightf. Huds. With. Sm. FI. Brit. Hook. 
Grev. Purt. Willd. Bull. Ligusticum Phellandrium. Crantz. Roth. 
“The genus Phellandrium” observes Professor Hooker, “scarcely differs 
from CEnanthe but in the want of a general involucre; a very unnatural 
character.” E.) Rivers, ditches, and pools. Clifton, near Severn Stoke, 
Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. Ditches near Darlington. Mr. Robson. 
In a pit at the farm yard three miles on the Stretford road from Manches¬ 
ter. Mr. Caley. (In an old gravel pit full of water at Eden-way, War¬ 
wickshire. Purton. Ditches near Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh. Gre- 
ville. Canal near Dublin. E. Murphy, Esq. E.) B. June—July.* 
* The seeds are recommended in intermittents, and are said to be diuretic, antiseptic, 
and expectorant. Dose from one to three drams daily. Dr. Lange. The leaves are some¬ 
times added to discutient cataplasms. It is generally esteemed a fatal poison to horses, 
occasioning them to become paralytic ; but this effect is by some attributed to an insect, 
{Curculio {Lixus) paraplecticus) which inhabits within the stems. The usual antidote is 
