PAESLEY FAMILY. 643 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 204. Chap. Fl. 163. 



AUegbeuian, Carolinian, and Louisianlau area. Quebec, Ontario; Minnesota and 

 Ohio Valley, soutli to Florida, west to Arkansas. 



Alabama : Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry copses, border of woods. Cull- 

 man, Tuscaloosa, Hale, and Mobile counties. Flowers pale yellow, May, June. Not 

 infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality not specifically given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LIGUSTICUM R. Sp. PI. 1:2.50. 17.53. 



About 20 species, temperate regions. North Hemisphere. North America 9, chiefly 

 western. 



Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 240. 1894. 



Canada Lovage. Nondo. 



Ferula canadensis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 247. 1753. 



Liqusticum actaeifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 166. 1803. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 205. Chap. Fl. 163. 



Carolinian area. Ontario?; Virginia along the mountains to Tennessee, North 

 Carolina, and Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Rich wooded hillsides. Dekalb County, Lookout 

 Mountain; Mentone, 1,600 feet, and near Collinsville. Cullman County, 800 feet; 

 Flowers .June. Scattered; not infrequent. Three to 5 feet high. Perennial. 



Economic uses : The root, called " white root," is used in domestic medicine. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Vii'ginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



AETHUSA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 256. 1753. 



Aethusa cynapium L. Sp. PI. 1 : 256. 1753. Fool's Parsley. 



Adventive from Europe, and naturalized northeast. 



Alabama : Fugitive on ballast. Mobile, June, 1892-1894. A fetid poisonous weed. 

 Annual. 



"Hab inter Europae olera." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CYNOSCYADIUM DC. Mc'm. Omb. 44, 1. 11. 1829. 



Two species, Atlantic North America. 



Cynoscyadium pinnatuni DC. M^m. Omb. 45, 1. 11. 1829. 



PiNNATK Do(;'.s Parsley. 



Jethnsa pinnata Eat. & Wright, N. A. Bot. 116. 1840. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 623 ; ed. 3, 180. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 143. 



Carolinian area. Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower hills. Walker County {E. A. Smith). August; local, rai-e. 

 Perennial. 



A low depau])erate form, 4 or 5 inches high. 



Type locality : "L'Amerique septentrionale, aux environs <lu fleuve Arkansa." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ERYNGIUM L. Sp. PI. 1: 232. 1753. Eryn(;o. 



About 100 species, chiefly jjensnnials; tcmjiorate and warmer regions of the globe. 

 North America 22, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Eryngium yuccifoliuni Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 164. 1803. Button SAakeroot. 



Krijnginm aquaticKM L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 336. 1762. In part. Not ed. 1,1: 132. 



Ell. Sk. 1:342. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 160. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 143. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Missouri and Nebraska, south 

 to Florida, Texas, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Over the State. Damp or dry sandy and gravelly soil. Cullman, Bibb, 

 and Mobile counties. .July, August; common. Perennial. 



In the coast region stout and tall forms prevail, bearing the very numerous globose 

 heads disposed in a compound umbel with the ultimate branches ternate. 



p]conomic uses: The root, called "cornsnakeroot," is used medicinally. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia.' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



