PARSLEY FAMILY. . 2406 
Seber cl grounds and margins of rivulets : throughout the United States. * July, Fr. 
September 
Obs. The mature ioe bn this plant has a sei anisate odor. The 
root is an active poi the lives of children, and others, are often 
endangered and siitnokiee destroyed by eating i in mistake for that 
a 
12. CONI’UM, L. Portson-nemiock. 
ae Koneion, the Greek name of the Hemlock.] 
Fruit ovate, compressed or contracted at the sides. poe with 5 
prominen ent erjeal ribs ania Fe wild potentials when immature,— 
mner face with a deep narrow groove ; oil-tubes none. “Fuaclete few- 
leaved. JInvolucels dimidiate or one-sided, about 3-leaved. 
1. C. macula’tum, Z. Stem terete, spotted ; ere rips -gornct dis- 
sected,—segments lance wolate, "pinnatifd, the lobes acute and often in- 
cised ; leaflets of the jevolucaie lanceolate, shorte a the umbe 
Sporren Conium. mmon Hemlock. 
Fy. Cigué ordinaire. Germ. Der tu Anse Span. wt 
Plant smooth, deep bluish green, mes gla Root bie fusiform, 
whitish cu fleshy. Stem 2-4 ponte wie age 4 6-8) feet high, ‘fistular, branched, some- 
hat sulcate, streaked with green wd. niente and often spotted 
petioles a ilated, nerved with sc argins. P. white. Fruit somewhat $a Bo 
bous. Carpels —— ty cope fally while young--the faces inclining to separate 
between the base an d apex when mature. — 
Waste places : introduced. Native of Europe. Fl. June-July. Fr, September. 
be reigner is partially {eugt o be know red —and 
ing a cee ] ap pore ison, i “ i nown by every person 
ng es i is ruised emits a dis- 
pated babe? It is su ep Paren A to be Af carat’ herb reith aged. the ancient — 
a pe their "peel gan and statesmen to death viene got 
An extract prepared from the plan merly u used — 
for the treatueat of ser tie and Sort seach tumors, bat it is now be- 
lieved that the only benefit, if any, — from it, was that of a palli- 
yne. = 
ative anod 
13. CORIAN’DRUM, Hoffm. Cortanper. 
[Greek Ny eee : 
Fruit globose. Carpels cohering, scarcely separating,—each Sun 
: epee primary ri abick jhe nial more pomient td a 
front of an dckcaeory mangle the 4 secondary ribs | 
