122 Ginseng (Araliacecz) 



With witch-power fell, 



That 's proof 'gainst book and bell ;- 

 Else how, 'mid early ice and snow 



And killing cold, 

 Can petal-lines of living gold 



Unfold them so ? 

 Unless, indeed, you hazel wild, 



Your heart like mine, 

 Has learned at last the lesson mild, 



The law divine, 



That ice nor snow 



Nor winds that blow 



Can freeze the flowers 



That glow 



In happy hearts, and hazel bowers, 

 That glow alike in darkest night 



And days of light ; 



You hazel-bush, whose yellow flowers, 

 Are spring-time smiles in autumn hours. 



18. Family ARALlACE/E. (Ginseng Fam.) 

 Genus ARALIA, Tourn. 



Fig. 54. Angelica Tree. Hercules' Club. Devil's Walking- 

 Stick. A. spiribsa, L. 



Flowers, small and whitish, in large loose clusters above 

 the leaves at the top of the tree. Petals, five, not 

 united. Stamens, five, alternate with the petals. 

 Styles, five. Seed-case, adherent to the calyx, five- 

 celled, five-seeded. July, August. 



Leaves, twice or thrice compound, odd-feathered, alternate, 

 about three feet long and one and one half feet wide. 

 Leaflets, very numerous, one and a half to three 

 inches long, sharp-toothed, egg-shape. Base, rounded 

 or slightly heart-shaped. Apex, pointed, very prickly, 

 rough above and below. Leaf -stem and leaflet-stems, 



