UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 301 
often purple-spotted. Leaves 
pinnate and thrice divided, the me Wi, 
segments finely cut and toothed. L\\\/e 
Flower clusters terminal, in 
large, open, compound: umbels, 
composed of many small um- 
bellets of tiny white flowers, 
five-petaled, the large umbel 
and its parts subtended by 
small, narrow bracts. Fruit 
consisting of two dry, seed- 
like carpels, cohering by their 
inner face, grayish brown when 
ripe, about one-eighth of an 
inch long, ovoid, flattened at 
the side, prominently ribbed, 
and having on the flattened 
surface a deep, narrow groove. 
The whole plant has a very 
disagreeable “mousy” odor, } 
especially when bruised. Fic. 209. — Poison Hemlock (Conium 
maculatum). Xi. 
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Means of control 
Grub it out, “root and branch,” and destroy it. So dangerous 
a neighbor should never be allowed on any farm land, and in par- 
ticular the roads of the countryside should be free from its presence. 
WATER HEMLOCK 
Cictita maculata, L. 
Other English names: Spotted Cowbane, Beaver Poison, Musquash 
Root, Muskrat Weed, Death-of-man, Children’s Bane. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of henge Hae ea ee 
eed-time ugust to October. 
real Newrotnlland to Manitoba, southward to Florida and New 
Mexico. 
Habitat: Low grounds; wet meadows, marshy places, sides of 
ditches, and ponds. 
