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UMBELLIFEBAE (PAESLEY FAMILY) 



2. P NuttAllii (T)C.) Britton. Similar in habit ; involuoral bracts short and 

 entire ; fruit only 1 mm. long, as broad as higli, blunt. {Discoplaura DC.) — 

 m. to e. Kan. , La. , and Tex. 



824. A. 



11. AEGOPdDIUM L. GouTWBED 



Fruit ovate, glabrous, with etjual filiform ribs, and no 

 oil-tubes ; stylopodium conical and prominent ; seed nearly 

 terete. — A coarse glabrous perennial, with creeping root- 

 stock, sharply toothed ovate leaflets, and rather large naked 

 umbels of white flowers. (Name from ai'f, goat, and irbSiov, 

 a little foot, probably from the shape of the leaflets.) 



1. A. PodageXria L. — Waste-heaps, etc., e. Mass. to Del. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) Fig. 824. 



12. CICtrTA L. Watek Hemlock 



Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovoid to nearly orbicular, glabrous, with 

 strong flattish corky ribs (the lateral largest) ; oil-tubes conspicuous, solitary ; 

 stylopodium depressed ; seed nearly terete. — Very poisonous 

 plants, with pinnately compound leaves and serrate leaflets, in- 

 volucre usually none, involucels of several slender bractlets, and 

 white flowers. (The ancient Latin name of the Hemlock.) 



1. C. maculjlta L. (Spotted Cowbanb, Mdsquash Root, 

 Beavek Poison.) Stem stout, 1-2.2 m. high, streaked with 

 purple ; leaves 2-3-pinnate, the lower on long petioles ; leaflets 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-12 cm. long, acuminate ; pedicels 

 in the umbellets numerous, "very unequal ; fruit broadly ovate to 

 oval, 3-3.5 mm. long, shallowl'i or not at all grooved at the com- 

 missure. — N. B. to Va., and westvv., common. Fig. 825. 



2. C. Curtlssii Coult. &, Rose. Coarser ; fruit 2-3 mm. long, 

 subglobose, grooved at the junction of the carpels. — Va. to Ky., 

 and south vv. — Perhaps only a variety of the preceding. 



3. C. bulbifera L. Rather slender, 3-10 dm. 

 high ; leaves 2-3-pinnate (sometimes appearing temate) ; leaflets 

 linear, sparsely toothed, 2-5 cm. long ; upper axils bearing clus- 

 tered bulblets; fruit (rare) scarcely 2 mm. long. — Common in 

 swp.mps, N. S. to Md. and Ida. 



13. cArUM L. Cakawat 



Calyx-teeth small. Fi-uit ovate or oblong, with filiform or in- 

 conspicuous ribs ; oil-tubes solitary ; stylopodium conical ; seed- 

 face plane or nearly so. — Smooth erect slender herbs, with fusi- 

 form or tuberous roots, pinnate leaves, involucre and involucels 

 of few to many bracts, and white (rarely pink) flowers. (Name 

 perhaps from the country, Caria.) 



1. C. CiRvr L. (Caraway.) Leaves with filiform divisions. 

 — Naturaliioed in many places, especially northward. (Nat. from 

 Eu.) Fig. 826. 



14. PETROSELtNUM Hoffm, Parsley 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals greenish-yellow, with attenuate incurved points. 

 Fruit ovate, glabrous, laterally compressed ; carpels pentagonal, the primary 

 ribs filiform, subequal ; oil-tubes solitary in tie intervals ; stylopodium cushion- 

 like. — Chiefly biennials, with ternately pinnate decompound leaves, toothed 

 leaf-segments, compound umbels, few-parted involucres, and several-manj'- 

 parted involucels. (Name from Trirpa. a rock, and ff^Ximv, parsley.) 



