158 



POPULAR FLORA. 



Mock-Orange (or Syringa). Philadelplms. 



1. CojiMON M. or Syringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant, in large panicles; styles separate. 



Cultivated. ' P- coroTiarius. 



2. Scentless M. Flowers larger and later than in the first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure 



white. Cultivated ; also wild S. Leaves "tasting like cucumbers. P. inoddrus, 



43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order TJMBELLIFERiE. 



Herbs with small flowers in compound umbels, the 5 petals and 5 stamens on the top of 

 the ovary, with which the calyx is so incOi-porated that it is not apparent, except some- 

 times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seeded, sphtting when ripe into two 

 akenes. Stems hollow. Leaves generally compound, decompound, or much cut. Some 

 species are aromatic, having a volatile oil in the seeds : most, but not all, of these are 

 harmless. Others contain a deadly poison in the roots and leaves. The deadly poisonous 

 sorts are' marked f : the most deadly is the Waler-Hemlock, also called Musquash-root, and 

 Beaver-Poison. — The kinds in this large family are known by their fruit, and are too 

 difficult for the beginner. The principal common kinds are merely enumerated in the fol- 

 lowing key. (Fig. 148 shows the compound umbel in Caraway, a good and familiar 

 example of the family.) 



379. Partof stem, leaf, umbel, Ac of Poieon-Hemlock. 380 A Beptirnte iimbellet. 381. A ttuwer magnified. 382 A fruit 383. Lower 

 hnir of it cut of]'. 334. Fruit of Sweet Cicely ; tlie two long altenea aeimrciting. 



