156 UMBELL1FERJE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 
bels); pedicels slender; fruit notched at the base and apex. Massa¬ 
chusetts and Albany, New York, thence southward near the coast. 
Scapes 3* - 9* high. 
2. CRANTZIA, Nutt. Crantzia. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose ; the carpels hollowed 
on the inner face, 5-ribbed, three of the ribs on the back, narrow, 
the lateral ones thickened and corky : an oil-tube in each inter¬ 
stice.— Minute plants, creeping and rooting in the mud, with 
the aspect of Hydrocotyle, but with fleshy nearly terete leaves, 
marked with cross divisions. Umbels few-flowered, simple. 
(Named in honor of Prof. Crantz , an Austrian botanist of the 
18th century.) 
1. C. liucata, Nutt. (Hydrocotyle lineata, Michx.) Uea'ves 
somewhat club-shaped, very obtuse. — Brackish marshes, Massachu¬ 
setts to N. Jersey. July. — Leaves and scapes U-2'long: flowers 
white, pedicelled. 
3. SANICUIiA, Tourn. Sanicle. Black Snake-root. 
Calyx-teeth manifest, persistent. Fruit globular, the carpels 
not separating spontaneously, ribless, thickly clothed with hooked 
prickles, each with 5 oil-tubes. —Perennial herbs, with palmately 
lobed or parted leaves, those from the root long-petioled. I 
irregular or compound, the flowers (greenish or yellowish) cap¬ 
itate in the umbellets, perfect, with staminate ones intermixed. 
Involucre and involucels few-leaved. (Name from sano, to heal.) 
1. S. Canadensis, L. Leaves 3-5- (the upper only 3-) 
parted; sterile flowers few, scarcely pedicelled , shorter than the ter 
tile ones; styles shorter than the prickles of the fruit. — Copies. 
June-Aug. —Plant l°-2° high, with thin leaves; their division* 
wedge-obovate or oblong, sharply cut and serrate, the lateral m 06 } 
2-lobed. Fruits about 3 in each umbellet. 
2. §. jVIarildntlica, L. Leaves all 5-7-parted; sterile fl** 
ers numerous , on slender pedicels , about the length of the fer 1 ; 
styles elongated and conspicuous , recurred. — Woods and copses, c0 ^ 
mon. — Stem 2P - 2P high ; the leaves more rigid and with narrow ^ 
divisions than in the former, with almost cartilaginous teeth. r 
several in each umbellet. 
ERltlHOIUMj Toum. Button Snake-root. 
Calyx-teeth manifest, persistent. Styles slender. Fruit top- 
