PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelliferae. 



inch across, without bracts, with a stout, ridged flower- 

 stalk and composed of from two to ten smaller clusters, 

 with small bracts; the anthers red. This grows in rich 

 moist soil, in shady valleys, on mountain ridges; in the 

 Wasatch Mountains, sometimes on the edge of the snow. 

 , Over a foot tall, with very pretty, dark 



fdrnica green foliage and rather ugly, dull yellow 



(Cymdpterus) flowers, in flat- topped clusters, three inches 

 Yellow across. The leaves are in a cluster at the 



C^r^Te root, with long leaf-stalks sheathing at 



base, very finely cut and toothed, with 

 stiffish points; the main flower-cluster without bracts, but 

 the smaller clusters with narrow bracts. 



An odd-looking plant, for the foliage 



looks like pieces f a whisk - broom stuck 

 Cogswllia platy- in the ground. It is six to fourteen inches 

 cdrpa (Pence- tall, with a thickish root and minute, 

 danum simplex) sulphur-yellow flowers, forming a flat- 



topped cluster, about two inches across, 

 Northwest and without bracts, and composed of three to 

 Utah fifteen smaller clusters, with small bracts; 



usually only the outermost flowers of both 

 the large and small clusters are fertile. The stem and 

 leaves are stiff and sage-green, the root-leaves with broad 

 leaf -stems, reddish and papery at base, sheathing the stem, 

 and all the leaves cut into narrow divisions, not much 

 thicker than pine needles, folded together so that they 

 appear to be cylindrical. This grows on dry gravelly 

 hills, at an altitude of from six to eight thousand feet. 



A fine, stcut plant, about two feet tall, 

 Leptotaenia with a thick sp i n dl e -shaped root and dark, 



multlfida 

 (Ferula) rich-green, feathery foliage; the large 



Yellowish-green leaves, over a foot long, appearing smooth 

 Spring, summer but really imperceptibly downy, finely cut 

 Northwest, Nev., and lobed w{th j t t l ea f_ sta lks; 



Utah, New Mex. 



the small flowers, yellowish-green or 



bronze-color, in flat-topped clusters, two or three inches 

 across, with few or no bracts, with tall, stout flower-stalks, 

 and composed of about eighteen, small clusters, forming 

 round knobs, with many bracts, on slender pedicels of 

 various lengths. This grows in rich soil and is con- 

 spicuous on account of its size and foliage. 

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