WHITE 



WATER PARSNIP. 



Stum cicutce folium. Parsley Family. 



Two to six feet high. Stem. — Stout. Leaves. — Divided into from three 

 to eight pairs of sharply toothed leaflets. Flowers. — White, in compound 

 umbels. 



This plant grows in water or wet places throughout North 

 America. I have found it in great abundance both in swamps 

 along the coast, and bordering mountain streams far inland. 

 Its Parsley-like flower-clusters at once indicate the family of 

 which it is a member. 



MOCK BISHOP-WEED. 



Discopleura cafillacea. Parsley Family. 



One or two feet high, occasionally much taller. Stems. — Branching. 

 Leaves. — Dissected into fine, thread-like divisions. Flowers. — White ; very 

 small ; growing in compound umbels with thread-like bracts. 



This plant blossoms all summer in wet meadows, both inland 

 and along the coast ; but it is especially common in the salt- 

 marshes near New York City. It probably owes its English 

 name to the fancied resemblance between the bracted flower- 

 clusters and a bishop's cap. Its effect is feathery and delicate. 



WATER HOREHOUND. 



Lycopus sinuatus. Mint P'amily. 



Stem. — Erect ; one to three feet high ; acutely four-angled Leaves. — 

 Opposite; oblong or lance-shaped; pointed; irregularly toothed or deeply 

 parted, or some of the upper merely wavy-margined. Flotvers. — Small ; 

 mostly white; in close whorls in the axils of the leaves. Calyx-teeth. — 

 Usually five; with short, sharp points. Corolla. — Bell -shaped ; nearly 

 equally four-lobed. Stafuens. — Four (the upper pair slender and conspicu- 

 ous but sterile). Pistil. — One, with a two-lobed style. Ovary. — Deeply 

 four-lobed ; splitting when ripe into four little nutlets. 



This plant abounds in wet places, flowering throughout the 

 summer. 



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