SAXIFKAGACE^ UMBELLIFER.E i 125 



what scented leaves : flowers in long racemes, whitish, with bracts longer 

 than the pedicels: fruit black, scented. Woods. 



R. aureum, Pursh. Golden, buffalo, or flowering currant. Fig. 183. 

 Large bush, with racemes of long-tubular yellow very fragrant flowers; fruit 

 blackish. Missouri, west, but common in gardens for its dowers. 



XIX. UMBELLIFEE.E. I'aksi.ky Family. 



Herbs, mostly strong-scented mid with compound alternate 

 leaves with petioles expanded or sheathing tit the base: flowers 

 small, mostly perfect, ."i-merous, epigynous, in umbels or umbel-like 

 clusters: stamens 5: fruit consisting of two carpels, which are dry 

 and seed-like and indehiscent. A w.-11-marked natural family of 

 about 1,500 species in about 160 genera. Some of the Bpecies are poi- 

 sonous. Here belong parsley, parsnip, carrot, celery, caraway, sweel 

 cicely. Bather difficult for the beginner. 



a. Fruits bristly 1. Daueus 



aa. Fruits nol bristly. 



b. I larpels or " seeds " winged 2. Pastinaea 



bh. < larpels w Lngless. 



0. Axis from which the carpels separate nol splitting in 



two 3. A i' in in 



co. Axis splitting in two when the carpels or "seeds" fall. I. ( 'inun 



1. DAUCUS. Cabbot. 



Annuals or biennials, bristly, Blender ami branching, with small white 

 (lowers in compound umbels, the raj - <>i \\ hich become Indexed in fruit; the 

 fruit oblong, ribbed 1 bristlj . 



D. Carota, Finn. Carrot. Pig. 180. Leaves pinnatel] decompound, the 

 ultimate segments lanceolate: outer flowers with larger petals. Europi . 

 cultivated for tin- root, and extensively run wild. 



1. PASTINACA. PabSNIP. 



Tall, - tli biennials of strict babil and with pinnatel] i pound 



leaves: flowers yellow, in compound umbels with scarcelj anj Lnvoluci 

 fruit oval, \ ry thin, wing-margined. 



P. sativa, Finn. Parsnip. Flowering stem 2 i ft. 'ill. grooved, bol 

 low: leaflets ovate or oblong, sharp-toothed. Europe; cultivated for Its 

 roots and :>i-" run wild. 



::. APIUM. Ci i bby. 



Viiiiiial- or biennials, with large pinnate leaves: flowers white, in -mull 

 umbels: frull small, usually as broad as long, each carpel ' ribbed sxis 

 from which the carpels fall nol splitting in two. 



