SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY AND VICINITY HI 



Conium maculaium L. Poison hemlock. Frequent in waste phi 

 about cities and villages. 



Cicuta bidbifera L. Bulb-bearing water hemlock. Marshy and 

 swampy open ground throughout. Often abundant. Root supposed to 

 be very poisonous. 



Carum carvi L. Caraway. Frequent as a weed about cities and vil- 

 lages. 



Slum cicutoefolium Schrank. Hemlock water-parsnip. Wei swampy 

 places and often in shallow water. Frequent. 



Pastinaca sativa L. Wild parsnip. Frequent as an escape from culti- 

 vation to roadsides and waste places in cities and villages. Root not 

 believed to be poisonous. The frequent fatal poisoning reported in the 

 Lower Peninsula and credited to wild parsnip is very probably not this 

 plant, but the tuberous roots of Cicuta maculata L., which have an aro- 

 matic odor, a pleasant sweetish taste like the roots of sweet cicely and 

 are very poisonous, no remedy being yet known. This latter is usually 

 known as " water hemlock, " "beaver poison" and other common nam 

 and has not yet (1915) been noticed by the writer in the Upper Penin- 

 sula. 



Heracleum lanatum Michx. Cow-parsnip. Damp open or partially 

 shaded ground. Frequent. 



Angelica atropurpurea L. Purple-stemmed angelica. Damp open 

 ground near Seul Choix, where it was plentiful. Not noticed elsewhere. 



Daucus carota L. Wild carrot. W^aste places and cultivated grounds. 

 Apparently not yet abundant. 



CORNACEAE. Dogwood Family 



Cornus canadensis L. (Chamaepericlymenum canademe (L.) Asch. & 

 Graebn.). Low cornel. Dwarf cornel. Dryish or damp shaded ground 

 especially in hardwoods. Often very abundant, fairly carpeting the 

 ground. 



Cornus circinata L'Her. (C. rugosa Lam.). Round-leaved cornel. 

 Sandy open or partially shaded ground. Plentiful. 



Cornus amomum Mill. Silky cornel. Sand dunes near Lake Michigan 

 west of Manistique. Plentiful. 



Cornus stolonifera Michx. Red-osier dogwood. Wet ground through- 

 out. Frequent. 



Cornus alternifolia L.f. Alternate-leaved cornel. Frequent on mar- 

 gins of hardwoods and along banks of streams. 



ERICACEAE. Heath Family 



Chimaphila umbellata (L.) Nutt. Prince's pine. Pipsissewa. Dry 

 shaded ground, usually in coniferous woods. Plentiful. 



