448 UMBELLIFERAE 
23. AEGOPODIUM, L. 
Coast herb, with leaves once or twice 3-parted. Leaflets egg-shaped, 
sharply toothed, umbels large: calyx teeth absent: Fruit egg-shaped, 
smooth with thread-like ribs. Seed cylindric. ; 
A. Podagraria, L. (Fig. 9, pl. 109.) GouTwrEp. Plant 1 to 23 
ft. high. Found in waste places. June-Aug. 
Fruit long, spindle-shaped 
Flowers White 
24. CHAEROPHYLLUM, L. 
Herbs, with leaves twice 3-parted, the leaflets deeply incised, making 
feather-formed segments Flowers white; calyx teeth absent. Fruit ob- 
long to linear. Umbels of few rays, compound, the umbellets also few 
rayed. Involucres absent, involucels of several small bracts. 
C. procumbens, (L.) Crantz. (Fig. 10, pl. 109.) SpREADING 
CuERVIL. Plant somewhat downy, 4 to 14 ft. high. Leaves on long leaf- 
stalks. Flowers few in each umbel. Moist grounds, New York and south- 
ward. April-June. 
25. OSMORHIZA, Raf. (Washingtonia, Raf.) 
Ours, downy herbs, with compound leaves and white flowers. Umbels 
few rayed, involucres absent, involucels of a few bracts. Calyx teeth 
absent. Fruit linear with short beak, 5-angled. Roots thick, aromatic. 
l. W. Claytoni, (Michx.) Clarke. (Fig. 8, pl. 111.) WooLty 
SWEET-CICELY. Somewhat stout, decidedly downy. Leaves twice 3-parted, 
the central leaflet of each division more or less feather-formed, and all 
the divisions more or less incised. Umbels 2 to 6 rayed. Fruit about 
4 in. long. Woods, throughout our area. May-June. 
2. W. longistylis, (Torr.) DC. Smoornrer Sweet-cicety. Much 
less hairy than No, 1. Woods, common. May-June. 
26. SCANDIX 
Herbs, with finely dissected leaves and with few rayed umbels and white 
flowers. Involucre absent or of a single bract, involucels present. Fruit 
greatly elongated, the “beak” much longer than the body. 
S. Pecten-Veneris, L. (Fig. 4, pl. 110.) Venus’s Comp, SHEpP- 
HERDS’ NEEDLE. Plant 6 in. to 18 in. high, much branched. Leaves finely 
dissected. Fruit with its beak 2 in. or more in length. Waste places. 
Introduced, May-July. 
Flowers Yellow 
(Thaspium trifoliatum, Purple)’ 
27. BUPLEURUM, L. 
Herb, with clasping leaves or with the stems apparently passing through 
the leaves and with compound umbels of yellow flowers. Involucre ab- 
sent, involucels of 5 conspicuous, rather broad bracts. Calyx teeth absent. 
Fruit oblong; ribs slender. 
