322 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



37. Golden Meadow Parsnip 



Thaspium aiireum. — Family, Parsley. Color, deep yellow. 

 Leaves, from the root, heart-shaped, toothed; on the stem, 

 3-divided, the leaflets ovate or round to lance-shaped, serrate. 

 Time, summer. 



Flowers in compound umbels, large, handsome. Fruit ma- 

 tures in August or September, pedicelled. Stem smooth arid 

 stout, 2 to 5 feet high. 



Throughout the Atlantic States. 



A variety (atropurpitreum) has dark purple petals. 



38. Sanicle. Black Snake-root 



Sanicula Marylandica ("to heal — or perhaps from San 

 Nicolas." — Gray). — Family, Vd^rsXey. C(?/(7r, yellowish. Leaves, 

 3 to 7, palmately parted, with the divisions toothed and pointed. 

 Root-leaves long-stalked. Time, summer. 



Small greenish -yellow flowers in irregular or compound 

 umbels, a few staminate, without pistils. Fruit round, com- 

 posed of several prickly carpels. Stem, 2 to 3 feet high. 



A difRcult plant to identify, having little external appearance 

 of a parsley, the small flowers and curious prickly fruit making it 

 puzzling. 



Range, throughout the Atlantic States. 



Variety 5. Canadensis has the upper leaves 3-parted, thin, on a 

 lower stem than the last. The leaf-divisions are sharply toothed ; 

 the side ones often 2-Iobed. 



39. Five-leaved Ginseng 



Aralia quinquefolia. — Family, Ginseng. Color, white. 

 Fruit red. Leaves, 3, in a whorl on a low stem, palmately 

 divided into 5 long-stalked leaflets. Time, July. 



Flowers, staminate and pistillate on different plants. 



The members of the ginseng family, with their pretty leaves 



