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EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN. 



PARSLEY FAMILY. 



UMBELLIFERAE. 



This rather large family of herbs containing about 1,600; species includes a consider- 

 able number that are poisonous when eaten. Here belong parsnips, carrots, dill, car- 

 away, parsley, poison hemlock, sweet cicely, fennel and coriander. Mostly natives 

 of cool regions; species difficult to identify. 



Fig. 153 (136). 



Beaver Poison. Water Hemlock. Musquash Root. Cicuta maculata L. A 

 rather slender, stiff, open-topped perennial, 1-2.2 m. high, having fleshy roots; [leaves 

 compound, the segments serrate; flowers white, fruit borne in compound umbels. A 

 native; abundant on low, moist land. Very poisonous. 



