158 



POPULAR FLORA. 



Mock-Oraiige (or Syrsnga). PhiladclpJins. 



1. Common M. or Syringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant, in large panicles; pty'es separate. 



Cultivated. P. corona rius. 



2. Scentless }.l. Flowers larger and later than in tlie first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure 



white. Cultivated; also wild S. Leaves tasting like cucumbers. P. inoddrus. 



43. PABSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFEEiE. 



Herbs with small flowers in compound umbels, the 5 petals and 5 stamens on the top of 

 the ovary, with which the calyx is so incorporated that it is not apparent, except some- 

 times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seeded, splitting when ripe into two 

 akenes. Stems hollow. Leaves generally compound, decompound, or much cut. Some 

 species are aromatic, having a volatile oil in the seeds : most, but not all, of these are 

 harmless. Others contain a deadly poison in the roots and leaves. The deadly poisonous 

 sorts are marked f : the most deadly is the Water-Hemlock^ also called Musqiiash-root, and 

 Beaver-Poison. — The kinds in this large family are known by their fruit, and are too 

 difficult for the beginner. The principal common kinds are merely enumerated in the fol- 

 lowing key. (Fig. 148 shows the compound umbel in Caraway, a good and familiar 

 example of the family.) 



SSi 381 380 



333 



S79 



379. Part of Stem, leaf, umbel, &c of Poison-Hemlock. 330 A separate umbellet. 3S1. A flt'Wer magnified. 382 Afro 

 half of it cut ofl'. 384. Fruit of kswebI Cicel/ ; lUe two long akenes sejiaraiiiig. 



it 383. Lowef 



