92, COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. 0. brevis'tylis, DC. (HAIRY SWEET CICELY.) Whole 

 plant hairy. Leaflets taper-pointed. Styles very short, 

 conical. Rich woods. 



21. ro MTM. L. POISON HEMLOCK. 



C. maeula'tum, L. Stem smooth, spotted. Leaflets 

 lanceolate, pinnatifid, pale green, with an offensive odour 

 when bruised. Involucels one-sided. Inner face of the 

 seed marked with a deep groove. Waste places. 



22. ERIGE'NIA, Nutt. HARBINGER-OF-SPRING. 



E. bulbo'sa, Nutt. Stem 4-6 inches high, from a tuber 

 deep in the ground, producing 2 leaves, the lower radical. 

 Leaflets much incised. Flowers few. Alluvial soil. 



ORDER XLIV. ARALIA'CE^l. (GINSENG FAMILY.) 

 Herbs (with us) differing from the last Order chiefly in 

 having, as a rule, more than 2 styles, and the fruit a drupe. 

 The umbels, also, are either single, or corymbed, or panicled. 

 Flowers often polygamous. The only Canadian genus is 



Alt.i'Ll.l. Tourn. GINSENG. WILD SARSAPARILLA. 



* Umbels corymbed or panicled. Petals, stamens, and styles each 5. 



Fruit black or dark-purple. 



1. A. raeemo'sa, L. (SPIKENARD.) Umbels in a large 

 compound panicle. Stem 2-3 feet high, widely branching. 

 Leaves very large and decompound ; leaflets ovate-cordate, 

 doubly serrate. Roots aromatic. Rich woods. 



2. A. his'pida. Michx. (BRISTLY SARSAPARILLA. WILD 

 ELDER.) Stem 1-2 feet high, bristly, leafy, somewhat 

 shrubby at the base. Umbels 2-1, corymbed. Leaves twice- 

 pinnate. Leaflets sharply serrate. Fruit black. Rocky or 

 sandy woods. 



3. A. nudieaulis, L. (WILD SARSAPARILLA.) True stem 

 very short, sending up a naked scape bearing 3 or 4 long- 

 peduncled umbels at the summit, and one long-petioled leaf, 

 ternateiy divided, and with 5 leaflets on each division. Root 

 horizontal, aromatic. Rich woods. 



