SAXIFRAGACE^ UMBELLIFERJE 325 



what scented leaves : flowers in long racemes, whitish, with bracts longer 

 than the pedicels: fruit black, scented. Woods. 



K. aiireum, Pursh. Golden, buffalo, or flowering currant. Fig. 483. 

 Large bush, with racemes of long-tubular yellow very fragrant flowers : fruit 

 blackish. Missouri, west, but common in gardens for its flowers. 



XIX. UMBELLIFER^. PARSLEY FAMILY. 



Herbs, mostly strong- scented and with compound alternate 

 leaves with petioles expanded or sheathing at the base : flowers 

 small, mostly perfect, 5-merous, epigynous, in umbels or umbel-like 

 clusters: stamens 5: fruit consisting of two carpels, which are dry 

 and seed-like and indehiscent. A well-marked natural family of 

 about 1,500 species in about 160 genera. Some of the species are poi- 

 sonous. Here belong parsley, parsnip, carrot, celery, caraway, sweet 

 cicely. Rather difficult for the beginner. 



A. Fruits bristly 1. Daucus 



AA. Fruits not bristly. 



B. Carpels or seeds " winged 2. Pastinaca 



BB. Carpels wingless. 



0. Axis from which the carpels separate not splitting in 



two 3. Apium 



cc. Axis splitting in two when the carpels or "seeds " fall. 4. Carum 



1. DAtTCUS. CARROT. 



Annuals or biennials, bristly, slender and branching, with small white 

 flowers in compound umbels, the rays of which become inflexed in fruit: the 

 fruit oblong, ribbed and bristly. 



D. Carota, Linn. Carrot. Fig. 180. Leaves pinnately decompound, the 

 ultimate segments lanceolate: outer flowers with larger petals. Europe; 

 cultivated for the root, and extensively run wild. 



2. PASTINACA. PARSNIP. 



Tall, smooth biennials of strict habit and with pinnately compound 

 leaves : flowers yellow, in compound umbels with scarcely any involucres : 

 fruit oval, very thin, wing-margined. 



P. sativa, Linn. Parsnip. Flowering stem 2-4 ft. tall, grooved, hol- 

 low: leaflets ovate or oblong, sharp-toothed. Europe; cultivated for its 

 roots and also run wild. 



3. APIUM. CELERY. 



Annuals or biennials, with large pinnate leaves: flowers white, in small 

 umbels: fruit small, usually as broad as long, each carpel 5-ribbed: axis 

 from which the carpels fall not splitting in two. 



