GENUS I. 



CARROT FAMILY. 



4. Eryngium prostratum Nutt. Prostrate 

 Eryngo. Fig. 3099. 



Eryngium inlegrifolium Walt. Fl. Car. 112. 1788? 

 E. prostratum Nutt.; DC. Prodr. 4: 92. 1830. 



Prostrate, diffusely branched, rooting from the 

 nodes, the branches very slender, sometimes 18' 

 long. Lower and basal leaves slender-petioled, 

 oval or oblong, mostly obtuse, entire, or crenate- 

 dentate ; stem-leaves smaller, often clustered at 

 the nodes, ovate, few-toothed, or entire or some 

 of them 3-parted ; heads ovoid-oblong, dense, 

 about 3" long, mostly shorter than the lanceolate 

 reflexed bracts ; bractlets very small ; fruit about 

 i" long, tuberculate. 



In low grounds, Kentucky to Missouri, south to 

 Florida and Texas. Summer. 



2. SANICULA L. Sp. PI. 235. 1753. 



Perennial or biennial mostly glabrous herbs, with alternate palmately 3~7-foliolate or 

 pinnatifid leaves and small yellowish, white or purplish, perfect and staminate flowers in 

 compound generally few-rayed umbels. Umbellets globose. Involucre few-leaved, folia- 

 ceous; involucels small. Calyx-lobes membranous, mostly persistent. Petals obovate, or 

 narrower, incurved at the apex, emarginate. Disk flat. Fruit somewhat flattened laterally, 

 subglobose, covered with hooked bristles in -our species. Carpels not ribbed; oil-tubes usu- 

 ally 5. [From the Latin, to heal.] 



About 25 species, natives of the north temperate zone, South America and South Africa. 

 Besides the following, about 14 others occur in the southern and western parts of the United States. 

 Type species : Sanicula europaea L. 



* Perennial; some staminate flowers in separate heads; styles longer than the bristles. 

 Petals and anthers greenish white ; calyx-segments lanceolate, cuspidate ; fruit 3" long. 



i. S. marylandica. 

 Petals and anthers yellow; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse; fruit ij4" long, or less. 2. S. gregaria. 



** Biennial or perennial; staminate flowers never in separate heads; styles shorter than 



the bristles. 



Leaves 3-5-divided ; pedicels of staminate flowers -i" long ; fruit less than 2" long. 3. S. canadensis. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate ; pedicels of staminate flowers 2" long ; fruit 3" long, or more. 4. S. trifoliata. 



i. Sanicula marylandica L. Black 

 Snake-root or Sanicle. Fig. 3100. 



Sanicula marylandica L. Sp. PI. 235. 1753- 



Rather stout, ii-4 high, usually simple, 

 topped by a 2-4-rayed umbel. Leaves firm, 

 bluish green, the basal long-petioled, the upper 

 sessile, 5-7-part'ed ; segments i4'-6' long, obo- 

 vate to oblanceolate, irregularly serrate or 

 dentate, often incised; involucral leaves much 

 smaller, 3-cleft ; involucel-bracts small, rarely 

 i" long; pedicels of staminate flowers 2" long; 

 calyx i" long, parted into subulate segments; 

 petals greenish white, little exceeding the 

 calyx; anthers greenish white; fruit sessile, 

 ovoid, 3" long, the slender recurved styles 

 longer than the stout bristles; oil-tubes 5, 

 large; seed furrowed dorsally. 



In rich woods, Newfoundland to Alberta, Geor- 

 gia and Colorado. May-July. 



