PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelliferae. 



Pteyrxia Cali- 

 fornica 

 (Cymopterus) 

 Yellow- 

 Summer 

 Cal., Oreg. 



Whisk-broom 

 Parsley 



Cogswellia platy- 

 carpa (Peuce- 

 danum simplex) 

 Yellow 

 Spring 



Northwest and 

 Utah 



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 

 green foliage and rather ugly, dull yellow 

 flowers, in flat-topped clusters, three inches 

 across. The leaves are in a cluster at the 

 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 of a whisk-broom stuck 

 in the ground. It is six to fourteen inches 

 tall, with a thickish root and minute, 

 sulphur-yellow flowers, forming a flat- 

 topped cluster, about two inches across, 

 without bracts, and composed of three to 

 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 b 

 leaf-stems, reddish and papery at base, sheathing the S' 

 and all the leaves cut into narrow divisions, not m 

 thicker than pine needles, folded together so that th 

 appear to be cylindrical. This grows on dry gravel! 

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



A fine, stout plant, about two feet tall, 

 with a thick, spindle-shaped root and dark, 

 rich-green, feathery foliage; the large 

 leaves, over a foot long, appearing smooth 

 but really imperceptibly downy, finely cut 

 and lobed, with long, stout leaf -stalks; 

 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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Leptotatnia 

 multifida 

 (Ferula) 



Yellowish-green 

 Spring, summer 

 Northwest, Nev., 

 Utah, New Mex. 



