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rOPULAU I'LOKA. 



Block-Orange (or Syriiiga). Philndelphus. 



1. Common II. or Syringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant, in large panicles; Ftyles sopnrate. 



Cultivated. P. coronarius. 



2. Scentless M. Flowers larger and later than in the first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure 



white. Cultivated; also wild S. Leaves tasting like cucumbers. P.'inodbrus. 



43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFEEiE. 



Herbs with small flowers in compound umbels, the 5 petals and 5 stamens on the top of 

 the ovary, with which the calyx is so incorporated that it is not apparent, except some- 

 times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seedcd, splitting Avhon ripe into two 

 akenes. Stems hollow. Leaves generally compound, decompound, or much cut. Some 

 species are aromatic, having a volatile oil in the seeds : most, but not all, of these are 

 harmless. Others contain a deadly poison in the roots and leaves. The deadly poisonous 

 sorts are marked f : the most deadly is the Watcr-IIemlocl\ also called Mus/juasJi-}-oot, and 

 Beaver-Poison. — The kinds in this large family are known by their fruit, and arc too 

 difficult for the beginner. The principal common kinds are merely enumerated in the fol- 

 lowing key. (Fig. 148 shows the compound umbel in Caraway, a good and familiar 

 example of the family.) 



382 



381 



380 



379. Partof Stem, Itaf, umbel, ftc. of Poison-Hemlock. 3S0. A separate umbellel. 381. A flower magnified. 382 A 

 hair of it cut ofl". 384. Fruit of Sweet Cicely ; tlie two long akenes separating. 



384 



fruit 383. Low»r 



