UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



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S. canadensis. Shrub i to 2 m. high ; leaves ellip- 

 tical or ovate, nearly naked, and green above, silvery- 

 downy and scurfy, with rusty scales beneath ; fruit 

 yellowish-red. Limestone rocks and banks. May. 



AKALIACEAE (GINSENG FAMILY) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with compound leaves, 

 small epigynous flowers in umbels, and fruit a drupe. 



ARALIA 



Herbs or shrubs, with alternate compound leaves whose ultimate 

 divisions are pinnate, white or green flowers in umbels or panicles, 



5 carpels, and black fruit. 



A. nudicaulis, WILD SARSAPARILLA. 

 Stem scarcely rising out of the 

 ground, smooth, bearing a single, 

 long-stalked leaf and a shorter naked 

 scape with 2-7 umbels ; leaflets 

 ovate, pointed serrate. Damp woods. 

 May, June. 



PANAX 



Herbs, with whorled, palmately 

 3-7-foliolate leaves, solitary um- 

 bels, 2 or 3 carpels, and red or 

 yellow fruit. 



Panax tnfolium, Dwarf ginseng. P. trifolium, DwARF GlNSENG. 



Root or tuber globular ; leaflets 3-5, 



sessile at the summit of the leaf-stalk, narrowly-oblong; umbel simple 

 and terminal; fruit yellowish. Rich woods. April, May. 



TIMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



Herbs, with alternate, mostly compound leaves; small, epigynous, 

 flowers in umbels; the 5 petals and stamens inserted on the disk 



SPRING FLORA- 



