THE FLORA. 



Fig. 4S3. Golden Alexanders, with its compound, naked umbel, <fec. 4 A flower enlarged 

 <i. The fruit wrth its thread-shaped ribs and two persistent styles. 6. Cross-section, showing th 

 two carpels with the oil-tubes and flat inner face. 7. Umbel of Sweet Cicely, in fruit 8. A 

 Dower eulsrged. 9. The fruit with the two carpels separating from the base nnd supported by I 

 two-cleft stalk. Fig. 490. Summit of the fruit of Bitter Cicely. 1. Fruit of Poison Hemlock, 

 with the undulate-crenulate ribs. 2. Cross-section, showing the grooved inner face and involute 

 lbiiii)en. 3. Radiate flower of Coriandrum. 4. Vertical section of the globose fruit, showing 

 the minute embryo. 



1. SANIC'ULA. Sanicle. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx teeth leafy, tube bristly. Petals obovate, 

 reot, with the point inflected. Fruit roundish, armed with hooked 

 prickles. Carpels without ribs. if. Plants l-2f. high. Umbel with a few 

 capitate umbellets. Involucre of few cleft bracts, involucel of several, 

 entire. June- Aug. 



1 S. Marylan'dica. Long-styled S. Sterile flowers many, pedicellate; fertile flower 



sessile. Styles slender, conspicuous, recurved. Leaves 5-7-parted. Common. 



2 a. Canaden'sis. Short-styled S. Sterile flowers few, much shorter than the fertile. 



Styles shorter than the prickles. Leaves 5-parted, upper 8-parted. Umbels 

 (or heads) small. Woods. Common 



