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DROPWORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DROPWORT , in See also:

botany, the See also:common name for a See also:species of Spiraea, S. filipendula (nat. ord. See also:Rosaceae) , found in dry pastures. It is a perennial See also:herb, with much divided See also:radical leaves and an erect See also:stem 2 to 3 ft. high bearing a loose terminal inflorescence of small See also:white See also:flowers, closely resembling those of the nearly allied species S. Ulmaria, or meadowsweet. See also:Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata (nat. ord. See also:Umbelliferae), is a tall herbaceous plant growing in marshes and ditches. The stem, which springs from a cluster of thickened roots, is stout, branched, hollow and 2 to 5 ft. high; the leaves are large and pinnately divided, and the flowers are See also:borne in a See also:compound umbel, the See also:long rays bearing dense partial umbels of small white flowers. The plant, which is very poisonous, is often mistaken for See also:celery.

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