SOME PRAIRIE FLOWERS 87 
calyx. The entire plant is covered with soft, silky hairs. 
It grows in dry soil, especially on knolls. It is often called 
the ‘“crocus,”’ but is really quite different from that well- 
known bulbous plant. i 
2. White-flowered Parsley and Hairy 
Parsley (Peucedanum).—These names apply 
to two plants that always attract attention 
on account of their extreme earliness, though 
they are usually less than six inches high 
and the flowers are not very showy. They 
bloom fully as early as 
the pasque flower. Their 
flower clusteris an umbel, |€ 
showing that they prob- 
ably belong to the carrot Pasqur FrowEr 
or parsley family,and the Blossom and seeds 
leaves are finely divided ee 
as we see in the garden caraway, dill, and 
other plants of this family. The hairy 
ae eRe parsley has yellow flow- 
PARSLEY ers, and the plant is 
more hairy and the 
leaves more finely cut than in the case of 
the white-flowered species. 
3. Golden Violet: Nutall’s Violet. — 
This golden-yellow violet of the prairies 
is not the same species as the downy 
yellow violet that forms the subject of 
Bryant’s beautiful little poem, “ The 
Yellow Violet,”’ but it blooms even earlier 
in the spring. The golden violet is found on dry prairies, 
while the downy grows in woodlands. 
GOLDEN VIOLET 
