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UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



2. P. Nuttallii (l^C.) Britton. Similar in habit ; involiicral bracts shon and 

 entire ; fruit onhj 1 ram. long, as broad as liigli, hhinl. {Discopleura DC.) — 

 m. to e. Kan., La., and Tex. 



824. A. Podagraria 

 X4. 



11. AEG0P6dIUM L. Goutweed 



Fruit ovate, glabrous, with equal filiform ribs, and no 

 oil-tubes ; stylopodium conical and prominent ; seed nearly 

 terete. — A coarse glabrous perennial, with creeping root- 

 stock, sharply toothed ovate leaflets, and rather large naked 

 umbels of white flowers. (Name from at^, goat, and irodiov, 

 a little foot, probably from the shape of the leaflets.) 



L A. PoDAGUAHiA L. — Wastc-hcaps, etc., e. Mass. to Del. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) Fig. 824. 



825. C. macu- 

 lata X 4. 



12. CICUTA L. Water Hemlock 



Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovoid to nearly orbicular, glabrous, with 

 strong flattlsh corky ribs (the lateral largest) , oil-tubes conspicuous, solitary ; 

 stylopodium depressed ; seed nearly terete. — Very poisonous 

 plants, with pinnately compound leaves and serrate leaflets, in- 

 volucre usually none, involucels of several slender bractlets, and 

 white dowers. (The ancient Latin name of the Hemlock.) 



1. C. maculata L. (Spotted Cowbane, Mlsquash Root, 

 Beaver Poisox.) Stem stout, 1-2.2 m. high, streaked with 

 purple ; leaves 2-3-pinnate, the lower on long petioles ; leaflets 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-12 cm. long, acuminate ; petlicels 

 in the umbellets numerous, very unequal ; fruit broadly ovate to 

 oval, 3-8.5 mm. long, shallowl;/ or not at all grooved at the com- 

 missure. — N. B. to V'a., and westw., common. Fig. 825. 



2. C. Curtissii Coult. & Rose. Coarser ; fruit 2-3 mm. long, 

 subglobose, grooved at the junction of the carpels. — Va. to Ky., 

 and southw. — Perhaps only a variety of the preceding. 



3. C. bulbifera L. Bather slender, 3-10 dm. 

 high; leaves 2-3-pinnate (sometimes appearing ternate); leaflets 

 linear, sparsely toothed, 2-5 cm. long; upper axils hearing clus- 

 tered hulUets; fruit (rare) scarcely 2 mm. long.-- Common in 

 swamps, N. S. to Md. and Ida. 



13. cArUM L. Caraway 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit ovate or oblong, with filiform or in- 

 conspicuous ribs ; oil-tubes solitary ; stylopodium conical ; seed- 

 face plane or nearly so. — Smootli erect slender herbs, v/ith fusi- 

 form or tuberous roots, pinnate leaves, involucre and involucels 

 of few to many bracts, and white (rarely pink) flowers. (Name 

 perhaps from the country, Caria.^ 



1. C. CArvi L. (Caraway.) Leaves with filiform divisions. 

 826. c. Carvi — Naturalized in many places, especially northward. (Nat. from 

 x-t. Eu.) Fig. 826. 



14. PETROSELtNUM Hoffm. Parsley 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. I'etals greenish-yellow, with attenuate incurved points. 

 Fruit ovate, glabrous, laterally compressed ; carpels pentaironal, the primary 

 ribs filiform, snbequal ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals ; stylopodium cushion- 

 like. — Chiefly biennials, with ternately pinnate decom])ound leaves, toothed 

 leaf-segments, compound innbels, few-parted involucres, nnd several-many- 

 parted involufuls. (Name from iriTpa. a rock, and aiXtvov. parsley.) 



