CARROT FAMILY 



lower divisions deeply cleft so that the leaf seems 

 seven-parted; stem-leaves are usually three-parted. 



The tiny, pale, greenish yellow flowers are in very 

 small clusters; the five petals of each floret are curiously 



Sanicle in Fruit. Sanicula Maryldndica 



incurved toward the centre of the flower when first it 

 opens; later they are flat. The long stamens of the 

 sterile flowers mature early and are a conspicuous 

 factor in the green-yellow of the flower-clusters. 



The small, cone-shaped fruit or burr is densely covered 

 with forked prickles, which seize upon the passerby 

 and are thus transported from place to place. It goes 

 without saying that the plant is a disagreeable weed. 



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