Minnesota Plant Life. 



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In the sweet cicelys the fruits are adapted for animal distri- 

 bution. They are elongated, pointed, armed with barbed hairs 

 and grouped in very loose umbels. These are common plants 

 in the woods throughout the state, and the slender, pointed 

 seed, which attaches itself to one's clothing during a forest 

 ramble, is generally the half-fruit of one or the other species 

 of Minnesota sweet cicelv. The snakeroots form little bur- 



FiG. 165. Wild parsley. After photograph by William.s. 



like fruits in loose, few-flowered umbels. These are, like those 

 of the sweet cicelys, intended for animal distribution ; but most 

 parsley fruits have smooth or ribbed surfaces and do not attach 

 themselves to animals. In some the fruits are winged to a 

 degree, and probably obtain distribution through the agency 

 of the wind. The roots of certain plants of the parsley family 

 are very poisonous, and to children eating those of the poison- 



