i8o A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers white, in a compound umbel, the ultimate umbels 

 many flowered. Fruit "nearly globular, about Y^q in. in dia- 

 meter. Wet places. New Brunswick to Florida, and west- 

 ward. July. Fig. 541. 



542. Great Angelica. Angelica atro purpurea. Somewhat re- 

 sembling No. 541, but purple stemmed, and the leaf seg- 

 ments wider, less deeply toothed, and with the veins not 

 ending in the notch between the teeth. Umbels often 8 in. 

 wide. In wet places. Newfoundland to Delaware, and west- 

 ward, very common. June. 



543. Mock Bishop-weed. Ptiliinnium capillaccuin. Usually 

 a salt marsh plant, rare in fresh marshes, and not over 15 

 in. high, and weak. Leaves finely dissected, the ultimate di- 

 visions thread-like. Flowers white, in a small umbel, not over 

 3^ in. wide, the general cluster bracted. Mass. to Florida 

 and Texas. June-October. Fig. 543. 



544. Black Snakeroot. Sanicula marylandica. Woods herb 

 with smooth, usually unbranched stem, mostly 1)^-23/2 ft. 

 high. Leaves compound, the leaflets arranged finger-fashion, 

 toothed, but scarcely lobed. Umbels rather long-stalked, the 

 bracts leafy, lobed and toothed. Flowers greenish-white, in- 

 conspicuous. In woods. Newfoundland to Georgia, and west- 

 ward. June. Fig. 544. There are several other species, omitted 

 here, as they are difficult to identify. 



545. Sweet-Cicely. Washingtonia Claytoni. (Osmorhiaa 

 Claytoni.) A hairy woods plant, not over 2^ ft. tall, the 



