WHITE 



WATER PARSNIP. 



Slum cicutce folium. Parsley Family. 



Two to six feet high. Stem. Stout. Leaves. Divided into from three 

 to eight pairs of sharply toothed leaflets. Flowers. White, in compound 

 umbels. 



This plant grows in water or wet places throughout North 

 America. I have found it in great abundance both in swamps 

 along the coast, and bordering mountain streams far inland. 

 Its Parsley-like flower-clusters at once indicate the family of 

 which it is a member. 



MOCK BISHOP-WEED. 



Discopleura capillacea. Parsley Family. 



One or two feet high, occasionally much taller. Stems. Branching. 

 Leaves. Dissected into fine, thread-like divisions. Flowers. White ; very 

 small ; growing in compound umbels with thread-like bracts. 



This plant blossoms all summer in wet meadows, both inland 

 and along the coast; but it is especially common in the salt- 

 marshes near New York City. It probably owes its English 

 name to the fancied resemblance between the bracted flower- 

 clusters and a bishop's cap. Its effect is feathery and delicate. 



WATER HOREHOUND. 



Lycopus sinuatus. Mint Family. 



Stem. Erect ; one to three feet high ; acutely four-angled. Leaves. 

 Opposite ; oblong or lance-shaped ; pointed ; irregularly toothed or deeply 

 parted, or some of the upper merely wavy-margined. Flowers. Small ; 

 mostly white; in close whorls in the axils of the leaves. Calyx-teeth. 

 Usually five; with short, sharp points. Corolla. Bell-shaped; nearly 

 equally four-lobed. Stamens. Four (the upper pair slender and conspicu- 

 ous but sterile). Pistil. One, with a two-lobed style. Ovary. Deeply 

 four-lobed ; splitting when ripe into four little nutlets. 



This plant abounds in wet places, flowering throughout the 

 summer. 



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