158 



roruLAi: iloiia. 



Mock-Orange (or Syringa). Pliilndclphus. 

 \. CoiviMON JI. or SvEiNGA. Flowers ci'eam-coloreiJ, fragrant, iu large panicles; styles separate. 



Cultivated. P. coronarlus. 



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. inodbrua, 



43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFER.;E. 



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 inooi'porated 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 Water-Hemlock, also called Musquash-root, and 

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

 diflSeult 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 r»artof .Stem, leaf, umh.^1 

 half of it'.ul oft'. 3«- Fruit uf 



of PdiBon Hemlock. 3S0 A separate umbe'lct 381. A flower magnifie'1 

 et (.'icel7 ; the two long akeiies Be|jarating. 



A fruit 383 Lewn 



