YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 35 



III. LEAVES NOT OPPOSITE OR WHORLED. 



8. Leaves (not opposite or whorled) compound or finely dissected, 

 flowers in umbel. 



WILD PARSNIP (Pastinaca sativa). Parsley family. 



Ht. 2 to several ft.; flowers small, in many umbels; 

 leaflets rather broad, blunt pointed, toothed, with- 

 out stalks. Common. Early summer to autumn. 



Fig. i 6. 



Celandine (Chelidonium majus). 



CELANDINE (Chelidonium majus). Poppy family. 



Ht. 1-2 ft.; stem containing colored juice; flowers 

 small; sepals 2, petals 4; leaves pinnately divided, 

 leaflets irregularly toothed. Waste places about 

 houses. Spring, summer. 



See also CROWTOE (10). 



9. Leaves (not opposite or whorled) finely dissected, flowers 

 not in umbel. 



GOLDEN CORYDALIS (Corydalis aurea). Fumitory 



family. 



Ht. -J i ft.; delicate herb; flowers in panicled 

 racemes: sepals 2; corolla yellow and pink, spurred; 

 leaves dissected. Rocky places. Spring, summer. 



