AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS: 
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Tue UmMBeLuirer& derive their name from the 
inflorescence, or mode of flowering, being in 
form of an uwmdel, that is, when many-stalked 
flowers spring from one point of a stem and 
reach about the same level. Very commonly 
there is a partial umbel at the end of each 
stalk of the principal or primary umbel; it is 
then termed a compound umbel. 
This mode of producing the flowers is a con- 
stant peculiarity of this Nat. Order; but it is 
by no means the only one. Other very differ- 
ent plants have their inflorescence in form of 
the umbel; but in the Umbelliferze there is a 
distinct form of flower and fruit which belongs 
to no other Order, and is an interesting study. 
We have nearly seventy species comprised 
in about forty genera. Some of those best 
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