GOLDEN MEADOW-PARSNIP 



Parsnip these are wanting. At the point where the 

 tiny stems of the umbcUets arise there are a few 

 minute bracts, which form an involucel; these are 

 present in the Meadow-Parsnip, but very small. 



The stem is two to three feet high, hollow, and 

 strong. The stem-leaves have sheathing petioles. All 

 the leaves are twice or thrice-compound of oblong or 

 ovate leaflets that are deeply serrate; sometimes the 

 lateral leaflets are once-cleft. 



The petals of the corolla are curiously incurved, ap- 

 parently the aim being to keep the stamens in hiding 

 until the pistil is mature and pollinated. 



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