UMBELLIFER^ 367 



1. DAttCUS. Carrot. 



Annuals or biennials, bristly, slender and branching, with small white 

 flowers in compound umbels, the rays of which become inflexed in fruit: the 

 fruit oblong, ribbed and bristly. 



D. Cardta, Linn. Carrot. Fig. 180. Leaves pinnately decompound, the 

 ultimate segments lanceolate: outer flowers with larger petals. Europe; 

 cultivated for the root, and extensively run wild. 



2. PASTINACA. Parsnip. 



Tall, smooth biennials of strict habit and with pinnately compound 

 leaves: flowers yellow, in compound umbels with scarcely any involucres: 

 fruit oval, very thin, wing-margined. 



P. satlva, Linn. Parsnip. Flowering stem 2-A ft. tall, grooved, bol- 

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

 roots and also run wild. 



3. ANGELICA. 



Strong, tall, perennial weeds, with great compound leaves and large 

 umbels of small white flowers, with involucre and involucels none, or only a 

 few small bracts: fruit ovate or oval, flattened, with rather broad, marginal 

 wings: oil-tubes many. 



A. atropurpilrea, Linn. A great weed, 3-8 ft. tall, in moist, rich soil or 

 swampy ground, with stem stout, smooth, strong- scented, often purple: 

 leaves large, 3-compound, on petioles with broad, inflated bases: umbels 

 large, flowers greenish white. 



4. OSMOKRHlZA. Sweet Cicely. 



Herbs 1-2 feet or more, perennial, glabrous or pubescent, from thick- 

 clustered, aromatic roots: leaves two or three times pinnately compound: 

 leaflets variously toothed, — the whole leaf fern-like: flowers many, small, 

 white, in compound, rayed umbels: fruit linear to linear-oblong, attenuate 

 at base, short-beaked, compressed, with 5 bristly ribs: no oil-tubes. 



0. brevistylia. DC. Stout, downy, 1-2 or 3 f*^. : style conical, shorter 

 than the ovary. 



0. longistylis, DC. Glabrous or nearly so, otherwise much like the pre- 

 ceding: style slender and about as long as the ovary: root aromatic. 



5. ERIGfiNIA. 



Little, glabrous perennial, early flowering: simple stem, springing from 

 a rounded tuber: leaves finely compound: flowers in small clusters, in 

 leafy bracted umbels, small, white: calyx-teeth wanting: petals obovate or 

 spafulate: fruit nearly orbicular, compressed on sides, glabrous, notched 

 at both ends. 



£. bulbdia, Nutt. Harbinger of spring. A delicate and pretty but incon- 

 spicuous plant, 4 to 10 inches high, springing from the ground in earliest 

 spring, on sunny slopes of woodlands. The little white petals and brown or 

 purplish anthers give a "pepper-and-salt" appearance. 



