164 PARSLEY FAMILY. 



1. ERYNGrlUM, ERYNGO. (Ancient name, of obscure meaning). Fl. 

 in summer. 



B yuecaefblium, Button-Snakekoot. Sandy and mostly damp ground, 

 from New Jersey S. & W. : stout herb, 2° - 3° high, smooth, of aspect quite 

 unlilce most Umbelliferous plants, having linear and tapenng grass-like leaves, 

 parallel-veined in the manner of an Endogen, and fringed with bristles, a few 

 globular thick heads in place of umbels, a very short involucre, and white 



Howers. 2/ ^ pc . i i i. 



E. Virgini&num. Wet grounds from New Jersey b. : with lance-linear 

 rather veiny leaves showing some distinction between blade and petiole, the 

 former with rigid teeth, and involucre longer than the bluish heads. ® There 

 are several other species from North Carolina S. 



2. SANiCULA, SANICLB. (Latin name, from sono, to heal.) Common 

 in thickets and open woods. Flowers greenish, crowded in small and head- 

 like umbellots, in summer, y. 



S. Canadensis. Stems l°-2° high ; leaves thin, palmately 3-5-parted 

 into wedge-obovate or oblong sharply cut and toothed divisions, the side ones 

 often 2-lobed ; umbellets rather few-flowered, with the sterile flowers in the 

 centre almost sessile ; styles shorter than prickles of the bur-like fruit. 



S. Maril&.ndiea. Stems 2° -3° high ; leaves of firmer texture, with nar- 

 rower divisions and rigid teeth ; umbellets with many flowers, the sterile ones 

 on slender pedicels, fertile ones with long styles. 



3. DAIJCUS, CARROT. (Ancient Greek name.) Fl. in summer. 



D. Cardta, Com.^ion C. Cult, from Europe for the root, occasionally run 

 wild : leaves cut into fine divisions ; umbel concave and dense in fruit, like 

 a bird's nest ; involucre of pinnatifid leaves. ® 



4. HYDBOCOTYLE, WATER-PENNYWORT. (From Greek words 

 for water staiiflat dish. ) Low and small very smooth herbs, growing in water 

 or wet places, mostly with creeping or rooting stems, and simple rounded 

 leaves either kidney-shaped or peltate. Fl. all summer. 11 



# Leaves peltate from the centre, on long petioles which, j.s well as the peduncles, 



rise from slender running rootstocks : fruit sharp-nuirgined. 



H. umbellata. Along the coast and rivers from Mass. S. : flowers many 

 in the umbel, on slender pedicels ; petioles and peduncles 3' - 8' high. 



H. Interriipta. Same range, smaller than the other, with few flowers on 

 short pedicels in each of the little umbellets growing one above the other to form 

 an interrupted spike. 



* * Leaves not peltate : peduncles and pedicels both short : stems slender, branched. 



H. Amerieina. Shady damp places ; leaves thin, small, crenate and 

 lobed, on short petioles, with minute flowers in their axils. 



There are two larger, long-petioled, but less common species from Pennsyl- 

 vania S., viz. H. repAnda and H. ranunculoIdes. 



5. CORIANDRUM, CORIANDER. (Name from Greek word for bug: 

 the herbage has a bedbug-like scent.) 



C. sativum. Cult, from the Orient, for the aromatic coriander-seed : low, 

 with small umbels of few rays ; fl. summer. (I) 



6. OSMORBHIZ A, SWEET CICELY, not the European plant of that 

 name, which is Myrrhis odoeXta, with much more sweet-scented fruit. 

 (Name, Greek for scented root, the root being sweet-aromatic.) Rich moist 

 woods, common N. : fl. late spring and summer, y. 



O. longistylis, the smoother species, with the sweeter root, has slender 

 styles, and ovate cut-toothed short-pointed leaflets, which are slightly downy. 



O. brevistylis, has conic.il styles not longer than the breadth of the ovary, 

 and downy-hairy taper-pointed almost pinnatifid leaflets. 



