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heart-shaped leaves. Flowers on a very short flower stem, only from 1 
to 5 very small flowers in the cluster. Wet places, throughout our area. 
June-Sept. 
3. LILAEOPSIS, Greene. (Crantzia, Nutt.) 
Small creeping herbs, rooting at the joints, in the mud. Leaves simply 
hollow cylindric stems. The few white flowers in small heads, with in- 
volucre below the head. 
L. lineata, (Michx.) Greene. (Fig. 6, pl. 107.) Litarorsis, Leaves 
about 1 to 3 in. high, from the creeping root. In salt marshes. July- 
Aug. 
Leaves compound; seeds rounded. Involucre to main stem present. In- 
volucre bracts finely dissected 
4. DAUCUS. 
Herbs, with more or less bristly hairs and with much-divided leaves 
and with leaf-like bracts. of the involucre, which are divided into linear 
or thread-like segments. Flowers white in compound umbels. Fruit oval 
with 5 slender ribs which are winged, each rib bearing a single row of 
barbed hairy prickles. 
D. carota, L. Witp Carrot. Our wild carrot, now found too abundant 
in meadows and fields as well as at roadsides. All summer. 
5. PTILIMNIUM, Raf. (Discopleura, DC.) 
Herbs, smooth, branching, annual. Leaves finely dissected. Involucre 
of leaf-like bracts which are divided into thread-like segments. Flowers 
white, in secondary umbels each with its involucel. Fruit egg-shaped, 
ribs without bristles. Calyx teeth small or none. 
P. capillaceum, (Michx.) MHollick. (Fig. 1, pl. 111.) Mock Bisnop- 
WEED. Plant 1 to 2 ft. high, leaves dissected into thread-like segments. 
Umbels compound with involucres and involucels. Wet soil. June-Oct. 
Flowers white. Fruit rounded, involucre bracts not divided or at most 
only toothed or ternately cleft 
6; “LIGUSTICUM, L. 
Plant smooth, with compound leaves. Umbels subtended by narrow 
bracts or none. Leaves of our species of 3 divisions each terminated by 
3 wedge-shaped, deeply notched leaflets, each leaflet from 1 to 4 in. long. 
L. scothicum, L. (Fig. 10, pl. 111.) Sea Parsiey. Scorcu LovaGE. 
Plant growing at seaside, 1 to 2 ft. high. Stem simple, or slightly branched 
above. Leaflets wedge-shaped, mostly 3-lobed and deeply notched. Fruit 
oblong. July-Aug. 
7. SANICULA, L. 
Plants smooth with alternate leaves, which are divided into 3 to 5 
segments, which radiate from the leaf stem. Rays of umbel few, each 
terminated by from 1 to 3 or more bur-like heads. Involucre leaf-like 
of 2 or more broad greenish bracts, which in Nos. 1 and 3 are ternately 
divided. Fruit globular, without ribs but thickly beset by hooked prickles. 
l. §, marylandica, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 109.) Sanicre., Plant, 1 to 4 
