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POPULAR FLOEA. 



Mock-Orange (or Syringa). Philadelplius. 



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



Cultivated. P- coroniii-'ms. 



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



white. Cultivated ; also wild S. Leaves tasting like cucumbers. P.inodbrus. 



43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFER^. 



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 incorporated that it is not apparent, except some- 

 times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seeded, splitting 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 feimily.) 



379. Partof Stem^leaf, umbel, 4c of Po[8on-Hemlock. 380. A aeparale umbelUt, 381. A flower magnified. 382 A fruit 383. Low 

 (lair of it cut off". 384. Fruil of Sweet Cicely J tlie two long akenea aejiarating. 



