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twenty-five together in a solitary, stalked umbel; each flower about one- 

 eighth of an inch broad or less. Petals five, spreading; stamens eight, 

 alternate with the petals, styles usually three. Fruit a small, three-angled, 

 yellow drupe about one-eighth of an inch broad (when the styles are only 

 two-lobed, as is sometimes the case, the fruit is also two-lobed). 



In woods and thickets, usually where the soil is moist, Nova Scotia 

 to Wisconsin and Iowa, south to Georgia. Flowering in April and May or 

 until early June. 



The True Ginseng (Panax quinquefolium Linnaeus) is much 

 larger, 8 to 16 inches high, with a deep, simple compound or lobed tuberous 

 root; leaflets 2 to 5 inches long, and the fruit, which is usually two-lobed, is 

 bright crimson in color and nearly one-half of an inch broad. 



Carrot Family 



Ammiaceae 

 Hemlock Water Parsnip 



Sium cicutaefolium Schrank 



Plate 149 



A perennial, smooth marsh herb with stout, erect, branching hollow 

 stem, 2 to 6 feet high. Lower and basal leaves long petioled, finely divided; 

 petioles sheathing the stem at their bases; segments of the leaves seven to 

 seventeen in number, linear or lanceolate, i^ to 5 inches long, one-eighth 

 to I inch wide, long pointed at the apex, margins sharply toothed. Flowers 

 white in large compound umbels, 2 to 3 inches broad; primary rays of 

 the umbel eight to twenty in number, one-half to 1 1 inches long ; involucral 

 bracts small and narrow; calyx teeth minute; petals inflexed at the apex. 

 Fruit ovate, compressed, about one-eighth of an inch long, the ribs 

 prominent. 



In marshy places, Nova Scotia to British Columbia, south to 

 Florida, Louisiana and California. Flowering from July to October. 



