168 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



shorter naked flower-stalk bearing usually three umbels of 

 numerous little greenish flowers. The long horizontal root 

 is very aromatic, and is often sold as a substitute for the 

 genuine Sarsaparilla ; while the fruit is dark purple and 

 berry-like. 



DEVIL'S CLUB 



Fatsia horrida. Ginseng Family 



Stems: stout, two to twelve feet high, decumbent at the base, 

 leafy at the summit, very prickly throughout. Leaves: palmately lobed. 

 Flowers: the greenish-white capitate umbels in a long dense raceme; 

 calyx-teeth obsolete; petals five, valvate in the bud; stamens five,, alter- 

 nate with the petals; filaments filiform. Fruit: drupaceous. 



A tall shrub consisting of a single stout stem covered with 

 long sharp spines, which are extremely poisonous. It 

 usually grows about six or eight feet high, and has huge 

 palm-like leaves, which are also prickly. The flowers grow 

 in a dense cluster at the top of the stem, and in time turn 

 into bright red berries. 



This plant should be carefully avoided in the forests. It 

 has been rightly named " Devil's Club," since no human 

 being may touch it with impunity. 



CRISP-LEAVED SWEET CICELY 



Osmorhiza obtusa. Parsley Family 



Stems: glabrous. Leaves: ternately compound, leaflets ovate, acumi- 

 nate, the teeth mucronate. Flowers: in few-rayed umbels. Fruit: 

 with prominent caudate attenuation at base, ribs equal. 



This plant has pretty fern-like leaves, thick anise-scented 

 roots w^hich are edible, and very ephemeral flowers, whose 

 white wistful faces look up at one from the flat-topped 

 clusters. 



Osmorhiza divaricata, or Western Sweet Cicely, is a 



