54 COMMON CANADIAN' WILD PLANTS. 



10. Zizia. Stein slender, smooth and glaucous. Leaves 2-3-ternately com- 



pound. Flower* i/elluii'. Kays of this umbel long and slender. Fruif. 

 contracted at tin' junction. </ t/t>' cur IK-IK; tin- carpel* narroirlif ~>-ril>lied. 



11. Cicu'ta. Stem streaked with purple, stout. Leaves thrice compliant). 



Flowers white. Fruit a little contracted at the sides, the carpel* xfron : il>i 

 5-ribbed. 



12. Si tun. Stem grooved. Leaves simply pinnate. Flowers white. Fruit. 



as in No. 10. 



13. Cryptotre'iiia. Stem smooth. Leaven 3-foliulate. The umbels witf, / . , / 



unequal rays. Flowers white. Fruit nearly as in Nos. 10 and 11. 

 2. Inner face of each wed hollowed lenr/fl-- 



14. Osmorrhi'za. Leaves large, 2-3-ternately compound. Flowers white 



Fruit linear-oblong, angled, tapering downwards into a stalk-like base. 

 Ribs of the carpels bristly upwards. 



15. Co'nium. Leaves large, decompound. Flowers white. Fruit ovate, 



flattened at the sides, 5-ribbed, the ribs wavy. 

 3. Innvfface of each seed curved inwards at top and bottom. 



16. Eri^e'iiia. Stem low and smooth. Leaves 2-3-ternately divided. Fruit 



tioin. Carpels nearly kidney-form. Umbels 3-rayed, small. Flowers 

 white. 



1. HYDROCOT'YLE, Tourn. WATER PENNYWORT. 

 H. America'na, L. Stem spreading and creeping, very 

 slender. Leaves kidney-shaped, crenate, slightly lobed. Umbels 

 3-5-flowered, inconspicuous, in the axils of the leaves. Shady 

 wet places. 



2. SANIC'ULiA, Tourn. SANICLE. BLACK SNAKEROOT. 



1. fe. Canaden'sis, L. Leaves 3 -5 -parted. A few xftnni,nifr 

 flowers among the perfect ones, and on very short pedicel*. Styles 

 shorter than the prickles of the fruit. Low rich woods, not so 

 common as the next. 



2. S. Marilan'dica, L. Leaves 5-7 -parted. Staminate flowers 

 numerous, and on slender pedicels. Styles long, recurved. Rich 



woods. 



3. UAU'CUS, Tourn. CARROT. 



D. Caro'ta, L. (COMMON CARROT.) Found wild occasionally 

 in old fields. In fruit the umbel becomes hollow like a binl' 



4. HERACLE'UM, L. Cow I'MISM.-. 

 H. laua'tum, Michx. Umbels largo and flat. Petioles of tin; 



