266 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



This pretty, hardy plant, escaped from cultivation, borders the 

 roadsides in many places in Connecticut and Long Island to New 

 Jersey. From underground runners ascending stems arise to the 

 height of 2 feet. It is becoming more common every year. 



13. Mossy Stonecrop 



Sedum acre. — Family, Orpine. Color, yellow. Leaves, 

 thick, small, overlapping on the branches, like scales. Time, 

 July. 



Sepals and petals, 4 or 5. Stamens, twice as many as petals. 

 Pistils, 4 or 5. 



Moss-like plants, better known in hanging-baskets and urns, 

 but found growing wild in some sections. 



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The garden Orpine or Live-for-ever (S.Telephiuni), with purple 

 flowers, stout oval leaves, and thick stems, 2 feet high, has 

 also escaped from gardens and attached itself to congenial 

 rocks in some woods. 



15. Caraway 



Car urn Carui.^ Family, Parsley. Color, white. Leaves, 

 compound, some of the leaflets cut into thread-like divisions. 

 Time, summer. 



Flowers in compound terminal umbels. Escaped from old- 

 fashioned gardens, where it has long been a favorite plant on 

 account of the pleasant taste of the seeds, which are still used 

 in cookies and buns, i to 2 feet high. 



The fusiform root is said to be edible. 



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C. Petrosettnum is the garden parsley, which is found some- 

 times growing wild. It bears greenish-yellow flowers. 



17. Wild Parsnip 

 Pastinaca safiva. — Family, VarsXty. Color, y&Wo^. Leaves, 

 pinnately compound. Time, early summer. 



