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FLOWER-LAND. 



I am afraid I cannot 

 tell you an umbel- 

 bearing plant which 

 you know by name,, 

 unless perhaps you 

 have some little rabbits 

 and so have gathered 

 Fig. 35- -A Compound Umbel. kecksies for them. 

 These flowers are also called cow-parsley. 



Many of the common garden plants, however, are 

 umbel-bearers, such as parsley, parsnip, carrot fennel, 

 and celery ; and these also grow wild. 



But we will look 

 about to see if there 

 are any plants with 

 umbels of small white 

 or whitish flowers at 

 all like what I have 

 been tellingyou about. 

 They are common al- 

 most everywhere, and 

 you yvill not have any 

 difficulty, I think, in 

 finding some of them. 

 If we pass through 

 a wood, or any grass- 

 Fig. 36. Part of stem of an Umbel fields there is one 

 Bearer. Cow Parsnip. 



(Heradetim sphondylium). umbel - bearer you 



may find which you can easily tell by its stem. It is 

 a small plant, about half a foot or a foot high. It is 



