PLANT FAMILIES: ONOGRACEM. 



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lanceolate or oblong, toothed and repand on the margin. In 

 many of the species of the family the parts of the flower are in 

 fours as in the evening primrose, but in others the number is 

 variable. 



UMBELLIFLOR^. 



537. The parsley family (umbelliferae). — The wild carrot (Daucus carota) is 

 common by roadsides and in old fields during August and September. The 

 leaves are deeply divided and the lobes are notched (pinnately decompound). 

 The flowers form umbels^ since the pedicels are all of about the same length, 

 and many of them radiate from the same point. In the carrot, and in most of 



