164 PARSLEY FAMILY. 



1. ERYNGIUM, EHYNGO. (Ancient name, of obscure meaning). Fl. 

 in summer. 



E. yuccsefdlium, BOTTON-SNAKEROOT. Sandy and mostly damp ground, 

 from New JvT-ry S. & \V. : stout herb, -2 - 3 high, smooth, of aspect quite 

 unlike most Umbelliferous plants, having linear and tapering grass-like leavo, 

 parallel-veined in thr manner of an Kudo^eii, and fringc'd with bristles, a few 

 globular thick heads in place of umbels, a very short involucre, and white 

 flowers. 3/ 



E. Virgmianum. Wet grounds from New Jersey S. : with lance-linear 

 rather veiny leaves flowing some distinction between blade and petiole, the 

 former with rigid teeth, and involucre longer than the bluish heads. There 

 are several other species from North Carolina S. 



2. SANICULA, SANICLE. (Latin name, from sano, to heal.) Common 

 in thickets and open woods. Flowers greenish, crowded in small and head- 

 like umbellets, in summer, y. 



S. Canad6nsis. Stems l-2 high; leaves thin, palmately 3-5-parted 

 into wedge obovate or oblong sharplv cut and toothed divisions, the side ones 

 often 2-lohed ; umbellets rather few-flowered, with the sterile (lowers in the 

 centre almost sessile ; stvles shorter than prickles of the bur-like fruit. 



S. Mai'llandica. Stems 2 -3 high ; leaves of firmer texture, with nar- 

 rower division.-* and rigid teeth ; umbellets with many flowers, the sterile ones 

 on slender pedicels, fertile ones with long styles. 



3. DAUCUS, CARROT. (Ancient Greek name.) Fl. in summer. 



D. Carota, COMMON ('. Cult, from Europe for the root, occasionally run 



wild : leaves cut into tine divisions ; umbel concave and dense in fruit, like 

 a bird's nest; involucre of pitmatilid leaves. @ 



4. HYDROCOTYLE, WATKR-l'KNXYWORT. (From Greek words 



for icater and fltit < //..-// ) Low and small very smooth herbs, growing in water 

 or wet places, mostly with creeping or rooting stems, and simple rounded 

 leaves either kidney-shaped or peltate. Fl. all summer. 2/ 



* Ltr<* peltate from tin' ;///v, on fang petioles u-liich, <i* well as the peduncles, 



rise front slender nntniiii/ rootstocks fruit sharp-margined. 



H. umbellata. Along the coast and rivers from Mass. S. : flowers many 

 in the umbel, on slender pedicels ; petioles and peduncles .3' - 8' high. 



H. interrupta. Same range, smaller than the other, witli few flowers on 

 short pedicels in each of the little umbellets growing one above the other to form 

 an interrupted spike. 



# * Leaves not peltate : peduncles and pedicels both short : stems slender, branched, 



H. Americana. Shady dani]) places ; leaves thin, small, eremite and 

 lolii'd. mi short petioles, with minute flowers in their axils. 



There are two larger, long-petioled, but less common species from Pennsyl- 

 vania S., viz. H. KEI'ANDA and II. KANUNCULOlDES. 



5. CORIANDRUM, CORIANDKR. (Name from Greek word for bug: 

 the herbage has a bedbug-like scent.) 



C. sativum. Cult, from the Orient, for the aromatic coriander-seed: low, 

 with small umbels of few rays ; tl. summer. (7) 



6. OSMORRHIZA, SYVKKT CICELY, not the European plant of that 

 name, which i- MVKRIIIS ODORATA, with much more sweet-scented fruit. 

 (Name, Greek for srriitnl root, the root heinir sweet-aromatic.) Rich moist 

 wodd.>, common N. : fl. late spring and summer. ^ 



O. longistylis, the smoother species, with the sweeter root, has slender 

 styles, and ovate cut-toothed short-pointed leaflets, which are slightly downy. 



O. brevistylis, has conical styles not longer than the breadth of the ovarj 

 and downy-hairy taper-pointed almost pinnatitid leaflets. 



