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umbels also without bracts. Fruit broadly oval or round, 

 ribbed. Common as a weed nearly everywhere. Native of 

 Europe. June-September. Fig. 554. 



555. Meadow Parsnip. Zi^fa aurca. An erect, smooth, usu- 

 ally branched herb, 1-2 ft. high, with long-stalked thrice 

 compound leaves. Leaf -segments oval, sharply but not deeply 

 toothed, very short stalked. Flowers yellow, in a bractless 

 umbel, but the smaller umbels with small bractlets. Fruit ob- 

 long, smooth, but ribbed. In meadows. New Brunswick to 

 Florida, and westward. May. Fig. 555. A related species, Z. 

 cordata, has basal leaves that are heart shaped. There is 

 also a plant of a different genus, Thaspium harbinodc, which 

 looks much like No. 555, and is to be separated only by 

 technical characters. 



