HEMLOCK WATER-PARSNIP 



of many narrow bracts. Calyx tube grown fast to the 

 ovary; corolla of five petals; stamens five; styles two. 



Fruit. — Of two compressed carpels with prominent ribs. 



Hemlock Water-Parsnip. Sium cicutafdlium 



The Hemlock Water-Parsnip is a water-loving 

 plant found in marshes making tangles in the soft 

 mud with Pickerel- weed, Joe-Pye Weed, and Sweet- 

 Flag, and sometimes planting itself just out and 

 sometimes just in the flowing current of a clear moun- 

 tain stream. Its compound umbels are many-rayed, 

 three inches across, the umbellets hemispherical, and 

 the plant interesting because of its companions and 



137 



