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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



from April to June. It grows from three to four feet high, and has 

 tri-pinnate leaves with coarsely-serrated edges. The umbels are 

 terminal, on long stalks. There are no bracts, but about five 

 narrow, ovate bracteoles with fringed edges. The flowers are 

 white ; and the fruits are long and narrow, smooth, with short 

 beaks. 



; The ij} arden 

 Beaked Parsley {A. 

 cerefolium ) is very 

 similar to the last 

 species, but has only 

 three bracteoles in a 

 whorl, and the um- 

 bels are lateral and 

 shortly stalked. Also, 

 the fruit, which is of 

 the same form, has a 

 longer beak. This 

 species is not a 

 native, but is often 

 found as a garden 

 escape. It grows to 

 a height of about 

 eighteen inches, and 

 flowers from May to 

 July. 



Our last example 

 of the Umbelliferce 

 is the Goutweed, 

 Bishop-weed or 

 Herb Gerard {^go- 

 fodium Podagraria), 

 a rather coarse, erect, smooth plant, from one to two feet high, 

 commonly seen in wayside ditches and other damp places. It 

 was formerly cultivated largely for medicinal purposes, conse- 

 quently it is to be found chiefly near towns and villages, where 

 it occurs as a garden escape. It has a creeping, aromatic stock ; 

 a hollow, grooved stem ; large long-stalked, biternate radical leaves, 

 with ovate or narrow, toothed segments, two or three inches 

 long ; and smaller stem-leaves with fewer segments. The flowers 

 are greenish white, in umbels of many rays, with few or no 



THE White BRYOjnr, CLmBma overa Bed op 

 Nettles. 



