COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. 0. brevis'tylis, DC. (HAIRY SWEET CICELY.) Whole 

 plant hairy. Leaflets taper-pointed. Styles very short, 

 conical. Rich woods. 



21. CO'iXIIIM, L. POISON HEMLOCK. 



C. maeula'tum, L. Stem smooth, spotted. Leaflets 

 lanceolate, pinnatifid, pale green, with an offensive odour 

 when bruised. Involucels one-sided. Inner face of the 

 seed marked with a deep groove. Waste places. 



22. ERIGE'NIA, Nutt. HARBINGER-OF-SPRING. 



E. bulbo'sa, Nutt. Stem 4-6 inches high, from a tuber 

 deep in the ground, producing 2 leaves, the lower radical. 

 Leaflets much incised. Flowers few. Alluvial soil. 



ORDER XLIV. ARALIA'CEJE. (GINSENG FAMILY.) 

 Herbs (with us) differing from the last Order chiefly in 

 having, as a rule, more than 2 styles, and the fruit a drupe. 

 The umbels, also, are either single, or corymbed, or panicled. 

 Flowers often polygamous. The only Canadian genus is 



ARA Lit, Tourn. GINSENG. WILD SARSAPARILLA. 



* Umbels corymbed or panicled. Petals, stamens, and styles each 5. 



Fruit black or dark-purple:. 



1. A. raeemo'sa, L. (SPIKENARD.) Umbels in a large 

 compound panicle. Stem 2-3 feet high, widely branching. 

 Leaves very large and decompound ; leaflets ovate-cordate, 

 doubly serrate. Roots aromatic. Rich woods. 



2. A. his'pida, Michx. (BRISTLY SARSAPARILLA. WILD 

 ELDER.) Stem 1-2 feet high, bristly, leafy, somewhat 

 shrubby at the base. Umbels 2-7, corymbed. Leaves twice- 

 pinnate. Leaflets sharply serrate. Fruit black. Rocky or 

 sandy woods. 



3. A. nudieaulis, L. (WILD SARSAPARILLA.) True stem 

 very short, sending up a naked scape bearing 3 or 4 long- 

 peduncled umbels at the summit, and one long-petioled leaf, 

 ternately divided, and with 5 leaflets on each division. Root 

 horizontal, aromatic. Rich woods. 



