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enlarged : flowers in spring and early summer. The Rough 

 Chervil has less cut leaves and ribbed, instead of smooth, fruits. 



13. Angelica, Angelica sylvestris, Hemlock family. A com- 

 mon plant in damp shady places : the stem is smooth, tinged 

 with purple, about 3 ft. high, and bears the large pinkish-white 

 umbels and the leaves: these are large, smooth, doubly com- 

 pound, with ovate, serrate leaflets : flowers in late summer. 

 A related species cultivated in gardens and occasionally escaping 

 was formerly used in medicine and is still employed in making 

 confectionery. 



14. Cow-parsnip, Hog-weed, Heracleum Sphondylium, 

 Hemlock family. This coarse plant is a common weed of 



14. Cow-parsnip. 



15. Hedge Parsley. 



banks and pastures : the stem is about 4 ft. high, and, as well 

 as the leaves, is rough with coarse hairs : the leaves are very 

 large and compound, the leaflets being deeply cut into serrate 

 lobes : the umbels are large, creamy or tinged with red, and 

 flower about mid-summer. 



15. Hedge Parsley, Caucalis Anthriscus, Hemlock family. 

 The slender stems are usually about 2 ft. high, and carry 

 numerous small umbels of white or reddish flowers, opening 

 in summer: the fruits are markedly prickly : the leaves are 

 fine, doubly feather-compound, and with ovate, serrate leaflets : 

 the plant is common on banks and in hedges. 



16. Traveller's Joy, Old Man's Beard, Clematis Vitalba, 

 Crowfoot family. One of the most familiar and beautiful 

 denizens of the English hedgerows: the stem rambles over 

 bushes and trees, often almost hiding the hedge : the leaves are 



