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123. SANICULA. 

 Sanicula Marilandica. L. Sanicle. 



Barren flowers on peduncles, perfect ones sessile. 

 Gr. 



Stem upright, smooth, furrowed, divided into a few erect 

 branches. Leaves divided somewhat in a pedate manner, acutely 

 serrate, the upper ones generally ovate-lanceolate resembling 

 heads, with an involucre of short ovate leaves. Umbels simple, 

 few flowered, the barren flowers on short peduncles, the perfect 

 or fruitful ones sessile. Seeds furnished with hooked bristles. — 

 About thickets in low ground. — June. 



124. DAUCUS. 



Daucus carota. L. Carrot. 



Fruit hispid, petioles nerved underneath. 



The common carrot, in its wild state, grows at Chelsea and 

 elsewhere, and is known at sight when in fruit by the cohesion 

 of the whole umbel, forming a concave surface. Involucre pia- 

 natifid. — June, July. — Biennial. 



125, HERACLEUM. 

 Heracleum latanum. Mich. Cow Parsnep. 



Leaves ternate, woolly underneath, leafets petioled 

 roundish-heart shaped, lobed ; fruit orbicular. Mich, 

 ahr. 



One of the largest of our umbelliferous plants. Petioles and 

 nerves of the leaves channelled, bristly. Leafets large, woolly 

 on the under side, deeply cut into lobes, which are again cut, 

 and unequally serrate. Umbels radiate, often a foot wide. Pe- 

 duncles furrowed. Leafets of the involucres lanceolate, tapering 

 to a very long point, deciduous. Flowers white. Petals heart 

 shaped with a very deep inflected sinus. Seeds thin, round-oval, 

 emarginate, marked with three short lines. — South Boston, Dor- 

 chester. — June. — Perennial. 



