THE PAESLEY FAMILY. 



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ft Growing in or upon the margin of water. 

 Umbels nearly sessile, lateral, foui* to eight-rayed. 



Leaflets regularly and finely serrated 6. Common Mabshwoet. 



Umbels on stalks. 



Umbels of rarely more than two rays ; leaflets few 

 and minute; plant insignificant, trailing or 



floating , 7. Mudweed. 



Umbels of several rays ; plant large and conspicuous. 

 Stem branched ; leaves handsome, the leaflets egg- 

 shaped, sharply serrated, and pointed. 

 Umbels aU terminal ; rays usually fifteen to\ 



twenty. Stem usually three or four feet I ^^- Broad-leaved 

 , . , ^ „ ,, , Watee-pabsnip. 



high. Leaflets equally sen-ated ) 



Umbels mostly lateral ; rays usually ten to \ 



fifteen. Stem seldom above two feet high, [13. Nareow-leaved 

 much branched. Leaflets unequally ser- [ Watee-paesnip. 



rated / 



Stem nearly simple, remarkably tubular ; umbels 

 of very few rays; leaflets linear', very small ; 

 those upon the aerial part of the plant 

 tubular, hke the stem 15. Tubular Deopwoet, 



•♦ Leaves formed of three, five, or seven branches ; the branches more or less 

 compound, and the general outline of the leaf triangular, 

 t Leaflets never exceeding nine, oval and serrated; 

 stem robust. Upper leaves ternate ; lower 



ones twice ternate 8. Goat-weed. 



"H* Leaflets more than nine, usually very numerous. 



J Umbel of not more than two or three rays ; flowers 



minute ; stems weak, branched, spreading, four 



to twelve inches long. Bracts of the involucel 



large, cleft, and upright 25. Shepherds' Needle. 



II Umbel of many, usually numerous rays. 

 Bracts large and pinnatifid ; stem very bristly ; central 



flower of every umbel usually red 22. Wild Caeeot. 



Bracts, when present, undivided. 



Stem spotted and sometimes streaked with blackish- 

 purple. 

 Stem smooth, polished, four to six feet high, slen- 

 der, much and gracefully branched, and, 

 with the leaves, smelling nauseously when 



bruised. (Fig. 178) 3. True Hemlock. 



Stem eighteen to thirty six inches high, slender, 

 furrowed, swollen beneath the joints, and 

 rough with short hairs. Young umbels 

 drooping 28. Rough Cheevil. 



