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Flowers in small, compound umbels, without involucre or 

 involucels. Stem^ tall, stout, smooth, grooved. 



This is the cultivated parsnip, now escaped from gardens and 

 found wild everywhere. It is fed to cattle, especially in Europe, 

 where the root is said sometimes to reach the length of 4 feet. 



18. Tansy 



Tanacetum vulgare. — Family^ Composite. Color, yellow. 

 Leaves, coarse-grained, much cut into fine -toothed leaflets. 

 Petioles winged and cut-toothed. Time, summer. 



Flowers, all tubular, and much compressed into flat-topped 

 corymbs. 



An herb formerly cultivated for its medicinal qualities. It has 

 escaped from gardens, and now grows wild in many places. Plant 

 from 3 to 4 feet high, with a strong, pungent scent. 



19. Wormvs^ood 



Artimfsia Absfnihium. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. 

 Leaves, twice or thrice divided into narrow lobes. Time, sum- 

 mer. 



Escaped from old gardens, where it is still cultivated for its 

 remedial virtues. Southernwood is a member of this genus, 

 sweet-scented, with narrow, linear leaves. 



Miigwort{A. vulgaris) is another species, with white wool on 

 the branches and under surfaces of the leaves, the small flow- 

 ers being in panicles. 



20. Oyster Plant 



Tragopogon porrifolius. — Family, Composite. Color, dark 

 crimson. Leaves, grass-like, clasping the stem. Ti^ne, summer. 



This plant may often be found growing wild along the borders 

 of farms. It grows 2 or 3 feet high, is stout, and may be known 

 by its leaves, which are long, narrow, and clasping, grass-like. 

 Flower-heads large, solitary. 



