WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
rich, cool woods from Quebec to Alabama, Minne- 
sota, Nebraska, and Missouri. 
SANICLE. BLACK SNAKEROOT | 
Sanicula marilandica. Carrot Family. 
From the Rocky Mountains eastward to Newfound- 
land and Georgia, this common and well-known herb 
raises its stout, smooth, hollow, usually simple and 
swaying stalk from one and a half to four feet in height. 
The firm, smooth, dark, or bluish green leaves are com- 
pounded of from five to seven palmate or spreading, 
long lance-shaped leaflets with their margins irregularly 
notched and toothed. The upper ones clasp the stalk 
and the lower ones are set on long stems. The tiny, 
pale, greenish yellow flowers have five petals that curve 
inward at first and cover the five stamens. Later they 
unfold and expose their charge. The flowers are both 
staminate and pistillate, and are found together in the 
same cluster. They are gathered in a rounding head 
and from two to four of these heads are borne in a loose 
terminal umbel. The small, cone-shaped fruit, or burr, 
is covered with numerous hooked bristles, and is usually 
tipped with two recurving styles. ‘The fibrous aromatic 
root has been used for nervousness and fevers. Sanicle 
blooms from May to July, in rich, moist woods 
SWEET CICELY 
Osmorhiza longistylis. Carrot Family. 
This species is a perennial herb having large, thick, 
clustered, edible roots that are regularly sought by 
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