PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelh ferae. 



broad. 2-4 feet high. In cool swamps among the hills, 

 from Me. and Vt., southwest through the mountains to 

 N. Car., west to Minn, and Mo. 



A tall and slender species, poisonous to 

 w *" e taste, and with large tuberiferous roots. 



rigidior The leaves are deep green, and altogether 



Dull white different in form from those of the pre- 

 August- ceding species ; they are long-stemmed 



and composed of 3-9 lance-shaped or 

 broader, remotely toothed leaflets, more or less variable 

 in shape. The tiny dull white flowers are in slender 

 clusters. The seed is flat-sided, broad, and the ribs are 

 not sharp or prominent ; the side ribs are broad. An- 

 other denizen of the swamps; from N. Y., south, and 

 west to Minn, and Mo. Named for Prof. Tiedemann, of 

 Heidelberg. Formerly Tiedemannia. 



A common very tall perennial with a 

 Cow Parsnip 



Heracleum stout, hollow, ridged stem, sometimes 



lanatum stained lightly with dull brown-red. The 



Dull white leaves are dark green, compound in three 

 June-July divisions, toothed and deeply lobed, rather 

 soft-hairy beneath, and with a leafy formation at the 

 junction of the leaf -stem and plant-stem. The insignifi- 

 cant dull white flowers, in large flat clusters, have five 

 petals, each of which is deeply notched and of unequal 

 proportions. The seed is very broad, fiat, and generally 

 oval. 4-8 feet high. Wet ground, shady borders of 

 moist thickets, from Me. , south to N. Car. , and west to 

 S. Dak. and Mo. Named for Hercules. 



A common biennial familiar on waysides 

 Wild Parsnip and the borders of fields> with a tough, 

 Pasttnaca , ... 



sativa strongly grooved, smooth stem, and with 



Light gold dull deep green, compound leaves corn- 

 yellow posed of many, toothed, thin, ovate divi- 

 June- sions. The dull (in effect greenish) light 

 gold yellow flowers are gathered in small 

 clusters set on slender stems, and form a broad, flat- 

 topped cluster. The stem, 2-5 feet high, is extremely 

 strong and difficult if not impossible to break. Seeds 

 flat and thin. Common. Naturalized from Europe. 



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