960 AMMIACEAE 
3. ARALIA [Tourn.] L. Perennial herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes 
prickle-armed or spiny. Leaves alternate: blades pinnately or ternate ly com- 
pound. mbel Noe MET Flowers white or greenish. Ovary mostly 5-celled. 
Styles distinct or united at the base. Fruit black. About 30 species, North 
American and Asiatie.—SPIKENARDS. SARSAPARILLAS.—Several of the species 
are used in medicine. 
Umbels few, in terminal e mbs or few-rayed umbels 
nn with elongate Ead a pedun cle or a leaf, or both, ap oe r at 
ntervals from the rootsto ck. 1. udicaulis. 
Plant with leafy branches arising from the rootstock. 2. Fu his spida. 
Umbels numerous, in terminal y axillary racemes or panicles. 
Large unarmed rb: leafiets membranous: hypanthium cam- 
panulate : e globular 3. A. racemosa. 
Shrub or small tree, with prickle-armed stems: leaflets leathery : 
hypanthium DEOSdIS turbinate: anthers ellipsoid. 4. A. spinosa. 
. A. nudicaulis L. Plant 2-3.5 dm. tall, sparingly soft-pubescent or gla. 
brous: "lead poen solitary: inflorescence overtopped by the leaf: berry 6 
mm. in s eter: seed 4.5-5 mm. long, very 
flat.— (WIL serene LA. )— Woods and 
rocky hillsides, various m Ga. to 
Mo., Man., and Newf.—Spring-s 
2. A. hispida Vent. Plant 2-9 dm. 
bristly pubescent: leaves several or many: 
urn ae overtopping the leaves: 
of nudi 
cky woods, various provinces, Coastal 
t inn 
A. racemosa L. Large e herb 1-2 m. ta H, 
unarmed: blades of the leaflets me mbranous: hypanthium campanulate: petals 
Pd xod than the hypanthium: berry 4-5 mm. in diameter: seed about 
long.—(SPIKENARD. HUNGRY-ROOT.)—Rich anes various provinces, 
da. 1 ) Miss. S Mo. , S. D., and N. B.—5um 
A. spinosa L. Shrub or small tree, prickle-armed: blades of the Pipe 
ypan 
berry 6-7 mm. in diameter: seed abo mm. | PRI -ASH ae 
ACHE-TR LES-CLUB.  PRICKLY-ELDER. DEVIL’S-WALKINGSTICK.).— 
Low E nds and woods, various provinces, Fla., to Tex., Mo., and N. = 
un —S ometimes Ee for ornament. The bark and fru its are oeeasi 
The brown heart-wood is streaked with yellow, d 
sed i icine. 
grained en Night and soft. 
Famity 3. AMMIACEAE — Carrot FAMILY 
Herbs with hollow stems. Leaves typically alternate: blades s 
or sometimes merely toothed, or entire. Flowers perfect or polyg 
umbellate. Calyx ot 5 tooth- like sepals, or obsolete. Corolla of e ole 
Androecium of 5 stamens. Gynoecium of 2 united carpels, often with a 
ae gee E dry, a eremocarp, the ribbed or winged carpels sepa- 
r —About 250 genera and more than 2,000 species, 
ide. distributed, bui most abundant in the tropies. 
