GARDEN BOTANY. Iv 



Flowers greenish-yellow or whitish : fruit ovate, somewhat flattened 



laterally : leaflets lobed and incised. 2. PETROSELINUM. 



Flowers white : fruit prickly, in dense concave umbels. Man. p. 152. DAUCDS. 



Flowers white : fruit smooth, not winged. 

 Calyx-teeth conspicuous on the globose strongly aromatic fruit. 3. CORIANDRUM. 



Calyx-teeth none. 



Leaflets filiform : fruit pleasantly aromatic 4. CARUM. 



Leaflets coarse and broad, wedge-shaped, incised : plant 



heavy scented. 5. APIUM. 



1. Fceniculum VUlgare, Fennel, a tall perennial, with decompound 

 leaves, very slender leaflets, and large loose umbels of small yellow flowers, 

 is cultivated in country gardens for its sweet-aromatic leaves and fruits. 



2. Petroselinum sativum, Parsley, a biennial, familiar in kitchen- 

 gardens, particularly the crisped-leaved or Curled Parsley. 



3. Coriaudrum sativum, Coriander, a low annual, with pinnately 

 dissected strong-scented leaves and small umbels of few rays, occasionally 

 cultivated for its aromatic fruit, the Coriander-seed of the shops. 



4. Carum Carui, Caraway, a familiar biennial or perennial, in all country 

 gardens, cultivated for its aromatic fruit. In some parts of New England it is 

 beginning to run wild. 



5. Apium graveoleiLS, Celery. A coarse and strong-scented biennial, 

 of which a cultivated state has enlarged and succulent petioles of the radical 

 leaves, which, after being blanched by covering with earth, become mild and 

 spicy, and are largely used for winter salad. 



Order ARALIACEiS. Ginseng Family. 



Manual, p. 159. — The only cultivated plant to be added to those already 

 described is, 



1. He'dera Helix, English Ivy, a woody vine, climbing by rootlets, 

 with evergreen, ovate, angled, or lobed leaves, and short umbels of yellowish- 

 green flowers ; styles united into a single short one. 



Order CAPRIFOLIACEJE. Honeysuckle Family. 



Manual, p 163. — The common species cultivated are the Snowberry, 

 Man. p. 164, the Snow-Ball or Guelder Rose, p. 168, and:— 



1. Diervilla Japonica, called Weigela Rosea ; a low shrub, loaded in 

 June with large rose-colored flowers. 



2. Lonicera sempervirens, Trumpet Honeysuckle, with long and 

 tubular almost regular corolla, Man. p. 164. 



L. Periclymenuin, Woodbine H., with the deeply 2-lipped corolla 



purple red outside, sweet-scented ; leaves all separate. 



L. Caprifolium, Italian H. Flowers like the last, but paler outside ; 

 leaves glaucous, the upper pairs connate-perfoliate. 



L. Japonica, Japan Honeysuckle. Twining, like the foregoing, but 

 flowers only a pair in the axil of the leaves (which are pubescent and all 

 separate), very sweet scented at evening; corolla deeply 2-lipped, reddish 

 outside, white inside, turning yellowish. 



