1G6 GINS1CNG FAMILT. 



cut-serrate ; petioles with large inflated merabranaceous base ; flowers greenish- 

 whitc ; fruit >mooth and thin-winged. 



A. hirsuta. Dry ground, commoner S. : stem 2 - 5 high, rather slen- 

 der, downy at top, a> an- tin- umbels and broadly winged fruits; leaflets thick- 

 ish, ovate-oblong, i-ernttc ; flower- bright white. 



15. HERACLEUM, C< > W-I'AKSNIP. (Named after Hercules.) Y\. 



summer. 11 



H. lanatum, DOWNY ('., wrongly called MASTERWORT. Damp rich 

 ground X. : vcrv stout, 4 - 8 hi^h, woolly-hairy when young, unpleasantly 

 strong-scented, with la rue cut and toothed or lobed leaflets, some of them heart" 

 shaped at base, and broad umbels with white flowers and large fruits. 



16. PASTINACA, PAKSXIP. (Latin name, from /xutus, food.) 



P. sativa, r<>MMO.\ P. l\un wild in low meadows, and then rather 

 )H>i'*ui,niis, cult, from Eu. for the esculent strong-scented root : tall, smooth, 

 with grooved stem, coarse and cut-toothed or lobcd leaflets, and umbels of small 

 yellow flowers. (2) 



55. ARALIACE^J, GINSENG FAMILY. 



Like the foregoing family, but often .Climbs or tree-, usually more 

 than two styles and cells to the ovary and fruit, the latter a berry 

 or drupe. Besides a few choice and uncommon shrubby house- 

 plants, represented only by the two following genera. The flowers 

 iu both are more or less polygamous, and the lobes or margin of 

 the calyx very short or none. Petals and stamens 5. 



1. ARALIA. Flowers in simple or panieled umbels, white or greenish: the petals 



lightly overlapping in the bud. Styles '2-5, separate to the base, except in 

 sterile flowers. Leaves compound or decompound. Root, bark, fruit, &c. 

 warm-aromatic or pungent. 



2. IIKDKRA. Flowers in panieled or clustered umbels, greenish : petals valvate 



in the bud. Ovary 5-celled: the 5 styles united into a. conical column. 

 Leaves simple, palmately 3-5-lobed or angled. Woody stems climbing by 

 rootlets. 



1. ARALIA. (Derivation obscure: said to be a Canadian name under 

 which a >pceics was sent from Quebec to the (iardcn of Plants at Paris.) y. 



1. WILD SARSAPARILLA, &c. Flcnoers perfect or polygamous with bath fertile 



a ml *i(rilc an the same fi/aiit : umbels more than one : fruit black or dark 



l>iii-ji/i', x/n'ri/ : seeds or cells and stylts 5. 



* Jjarge and leafy-stemned, //// very compound AYN-/S x<nn< iim> .> -2 or 3 across, 



ami iritlt iniiiii/ iiiiilii'/s in ii liii-iif compound panicle : fl. in siunim r. 



A. spin6sa, AXGKLICA TRKK, HKUCTLKS' CLUB. River-banks from 

 1'enn. S., and planted : a >hrub or low tree, of peculiar aspect, the simple stout 

 trunk riMiig G - '20 hi^li and beset with prickles, bearing immense leaves with 

 ovate serrate leaflets, and corymbcd or panicled umbels. 



A. racem6sa, SPIKENARD. Woodlands in rich soil, with herbaceous 

 stems 3 - 5 hiuli from a thick aromatic- root, not prickly, widely spreading 

 branches, heart-ovate leaflets donblv M-rrate and slightly downy, and raccmed- 

 panicled-umbels. 



* * Smaller : short stems si-nrirh/ it'iKirty at Im* : f< '"' vanbds: Ji. early summer. 



A. hispida, BRISTLY SARSAPARII.I.V. Ivocky jilaees : bristly steins 1- 

 2 high, lcaf\ below, naked and liearing corymbed umbels above; leaves twice 

 pinnate, the leaflets oblong-ovate and cut-toothed. 



A. nudicaulis, COMMON WILD S. Low ground : the aromatic horizontal 



slender roots running .'?- 5 long, used as a .substitute for officinal Sarsaparilla : 

 the smooth ]ro]>er stem rising only 2' -4' inches, bearing a single long-stalked 



