A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS i8i 



leaves many times compound. Leaflets arranged feather- 

 fashion, the ultimate segments lobed and toothed. Umbels 

 few flowered, white, followed by a shiny, bristly beaked 

 fruit, about y^ in. long. Foliage and especially the roots 

 fragrant. Nova Scotia to No. Carolina and westward. June. 



Fig. 545. 



546. HoNEWORT. Deringa canadensis. (Cryptotaenia cana- 

 densis.) Somewhat resembling No. 545, but leaves not so 

 much cut, the ultimate segments more lobed but less toothed, 

 and without hairs. Fruit about J4 in. long, not beaked at the 

 tip. In rich woods. New Brunswick to Georgia, and westward. 

 June. 



547. Wild Carrot. Daucus Carota. One of the commonest 

 European weeds in America. Leaves much dissected, the 

 leaf stalk and stalklets often bristly. The general umbel has 

 below it a set of dissected bracts. Flowers minute, white. 

 Fruit bristly. In waste places everywhere. Ancestor of the 

 carrot. June-September. Fig. 547. 



548. Poison Hemlock. Conium maculatum. A poisonous- 

 juiced plant said to have been the poison hemlock that killed 

 Socrates. Stems erect, branched, usually 2-3 ft. tall. Foliage 

 and flowers not unlike No. 547, but the umbel with bracts 

 not dissected, and the fruit not bristly. In waste places. Nova 

 Scotia to Delaware, and westward. Native of Europe. June. 



549. Sea Lovage. Ligusticum Scoticum. A coarse salt marsh 

 plant with mostly unbranched stems, 1-25/2 ft. tall. Leaves 

 mostly twice compound, the ultimate segments thick, fleshy, 

 broadly oval, and with rather blunt teeth. Umbels 2-4 in. 

 wide, compound, white. Fruit ribbed, but not bristly, about 

 Yi in. long. From the eastern tip of Long Island, N. Y., to 

 the lower St. Lawrence River and Labrador. July. Fig. 549. 



550. Hemlock Water-parsnip. Shim cicutac folium. A fresh 

 water marsh or swamp plant with an erect branched stem 

 2-4 ft. tall. Basal leaves much dissected. Stem leaves merely 

 compound, the opposite narrowly oblong leaflets toothed and 

 2-4 in. long. Umbel compound, bracted, the bracts not 

 divided, flowers white. Nova Scotia to Florida, and west- 

 ward. July-October. Fig. 550. 



