Classificatio7i of Plants 



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H. verticillata is common by furrows with pretty peltate leaves. H. 

 solandra is adapted to the sandy hillsides where it is found. It has white 

 woolly leaves, which come up in tufts from underground stems. Some 

 species have linear leaves. 



Bubon. — Umbels large, many rayed, yellowish green. In- 

 volucre and involucel of many linear leaves. Carpels flattened 

 at the back, with narrow wings at the side. B. galbanuin 

 (wild celery) is a common shrub with wedge-shaped leaflets. 

 Some people are poisoned by touching the leaves. 



Buplerum has compound umbels of yellow flowers. Fruit 



Fig. 249. — Pellate leaves oi Hydrocotyl. 



flattened at the sides. First leaves divided, upper ones simple, 

 linear. The petioles may become changed inta phyllodes. 



Arctopus is a common, low-growing plant with a rosette 

 of leaves flat on the ground. The flowers are dioecious, but 

 the two plants are not far apart. The involucre leaves are 

 sometimes large and spine- tipped. 



Hermas is a large almost shrubby plant, with entire leaves 

 and large compound umbels of white or purple flowers. The 

 leaves are large, simple, clothed on one or both sides with 

 white woolly hairs. Hermas gigantea is the " tundelboom." 



Garden vegetables are parsnip, carrot, celery, caraway. 



