PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelliferas. 



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 

 Tiedemannia ^aste, and with large tuberiferous roots. 

 rigida 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. 



A common very tall perennial with a 

 Cow Parsnip , , „ . , , . 



Heracleum stout, hollow, ridged Stem, sometimes 



lanntum 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- 

 ca*nt 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, flat, 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 ^^^^ ^j^^ borders of fields, with a tough, 

 Pastinaca , . , 



sativa Strongly grooved, smooth stem, and with 



Light gold dull deep green, compound leaves com- 

 yellow posed of man}^ toothed, thin, ovate divi- 



''""^~ 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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