HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



low, i Eoo1 high, but at times several feet tall. Leaves, compound, 

 finely cul into thread-like divisions. Flower-bracts cut. June 

 to October. 



Its line, white flowers and hair-like leaves are common 

 among the brackish marshes, wherever the water keeps their 

 roots perpetually moist. 



Water Hemlock or Spotted Cowbane 



Cicuta maculata Family, Parsley. This may be known by its 



purple - streaked stem. It is a large, coarse plant, with white 

 flowers in large umbels. It grows from 2 to 6 feet high. The 

 lower leaves have long stems. They are twice or thrice pinnate, 

 coarsely serrate, heavily veined. August. 



The root is a deadly poison, perhaps making it the most 

 dangerous of our native plants. It has been eaten for sweet 

 cicely with fatal consequences. 



C. bulbifera. — A smaller and slenderer species, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 with leaflets less deeply toothed, and small bulblets growing^in 

 clusters upon its upper axils. Leaves, 2 to 3 -pinnate. July to 

 September. 



Common in swamps and wet grounds as far south as 

 Maryland. 



Caraway 



Carum Carvu — Family, Parsley. Flowers in compound, ter- 

 minal umbels. Leaves, compound, some of the leaflets cut into 

 thread-like divisions. May to July. 



Kscaped from old-fashioned gardens, where it has long 

 been a favorite plant on account of the pleasant taste of the 

 seeds, which are still used in cookies and buns. 



The fusiform root is said to be edible. 



Berula 



Berula erecta — Family, Parsley. The umbels of flowers have 

 rather large involucres of narrow bracts underneath. Leaves, 

 I 'innate, the 5 to 9 pairs of leaflets sharply or obtusely toothed or 

 lobed, 3 inches long or less. An erect stem, rather coarse, 6 to 

 30 inches high. July and August. 



In swamps and along banks of streams from Maine to 

 Michigan and southward. 



Water Parsnip 



Stum cicutaefblium.— Family, Parsley. Flowers, as in all of this 

 family, in umbels, Leaves. \ .innate. Leaflets, 3 to 6 pairs, serrate, 



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