366 THE CARROT FAMILY. 



CURTIS* ANGELICA. 



Afigelica Curt i si i. 



Flowers: minute; growing in terminal glabrous or slightly pubescent umbels. 

 Invohicre : of several bracts, or none. Fruit: oval; flat; broadly winged all around 

 and having oil tubes within the intervals. Leaves : twice ternate, or thrice divided 

 with pinnate divisions, long stalked, the lower ones sheathed at their bases, the 

 upper ones inflated and scale-like. Leaflets: ovate, pointed at the apex and cor- 

 date or slightly tapering at the base ; irregularly dentate, or incised ; thin. Stem : 

 two to three feet high ; erect ; branching ; grooved. 



The Umbellifer^, an order to which this and similarly constructed plants 

 belong, embraces a large group of various individuals strongly held together, 

 however, by common bonds, and which amid our wild flowers holds as dis- 

 tinctive a place as does the Compositas. Many of the species produce on 

 the mind similar impressions, for they are wonderfully alike ; it being in some 

 cases only by the mature fruit that they or even the genera are determined 

 with satisfaction. Again the leaves of many individuals among them show 

 strong variations, and their flowers being almost identical thus greatly per- 

 plex the beginner who would study their ways. A peculiarity of them all is 

 that some time before their stamens are ready to shed the pollen, the stigmas 

 are fully developed, so insects are necessary to cross-fertilize them. The 

 species herein presented are all rather distinctive and present a fairly good 

 showing of the family, but for a more extended study a purely scientific book 

 should be used. 



The genus Angelica bears its name on account of its credited efficacy in 

 healing. 



A. villbsa, pubescent Angelica, a plant very similar to its relative, is char- 

 acterised by the pubescence on its upper stems and peduncles and the dense 

 tomentum of its umbels. Its leaf segments, moreover, are obtuse at the 

 apex and the carpels less strongly winged. 



HAIRY=JOINTED MEADOW=PARSNIP. 



Thdspium barbiiibde. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Carrot. Pale yellozv. Scentless. Florida to Arlcansas and Ontario. JMay^Jtme. 



Flowers : minute ; growing on long peduncles in terminal and lateral umbels. 

 Calyx-teeth: very short. Liivolucre: none. Carpels: oblong, smooth, the broad 

 ribs rather unequal. Leaves : once, twice or thrice pinnate ; the leaflets, ovate, 

 pointed at the apex and wedge-shaped or rounded at the base ; sessile or nearly so 

 with the exception of the terminal one, irregularly toothed, often lobed ; thin. 

 Stem: erect; branched above; two to four feet high 5 smooth excepting at the 

 joints. 



