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Muddy hanks of stream*. July. Stem 1 to 2 inches long, rooting and creeping 

 in the mud. Leuvcs 1 to 2 inches long, nearly terete. Umbels i to 8-flowered. 

 Flomtrt while, pedicelled. Fruit with red vittae. 



3. SANICULA. Linn. 



Lat. sav.o, to heal; on account of its supposed medicinal virtues. 



Calyx-tube beset with prickles, segments acute, leafy, 

 persistent. Petals obovate, erect, converging, deeply 

 notched. Fruit sub-globose, thickly clothed with hooked 

 prickles j carpels without ribs. — Perennial herbs, icith pal- 

 mately-lobed or parted leaves, those of the root long-petioled ; 

 umbels irregular or compound, the greenish or yellowish flow- 

 ers capitate in the umbcVets, perfect, icith siaminate ones 

 intermixed^ and involucre of few often cleft leaflets, involucel 

 of several, entire. 



1. S. Marilandica, L. Sanicle. 



Leaves 5 to 7-parted, mestly radical, segments oblong, incisely serrate; sterile 

 flowers numerous, on slender pedicels, about as long as the fertile ones; styles 

 long and rccurvc-d. 



Woods and thickets; common. June, July. Stern 1 to 2 feet high, branching at 

 the top. i: n petioles y z to 1 foot long, 3-parted at the base, with the 



literal Begmants deeply 2-parted. Stem leaves few, nearly sessile. Petals white or 

 yellowish, obcordate. Fruit several in each umbcllet. 



2. S. Canadensis, L. Canadian Sanicle. 



Ltftva 3 to 0-partcd, the segments incisely and sharply serrate; sterile flowers 

 few. on very ^liort pedicels, shorter than the fertile ones; styles shorter than the 

 prickles of the fruit. 



Woods. June. July. Plant 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves thin, divisions wedge-obo- 

 vate or oblong, sharply cut and serrate (the up; er ones only 3-parted). Fiuit 

 about 3 in each umbcllet. 



4. DAUCUS. Tourn. Carrot. 



(The ancient Greek name.) 



Caltx 5-tcothed. Petals obovate, emarginate with an 

 infle:.ed point. Fruit ovoid or oblong, the carpels with 5 

 primary, slender, bristly ribs, 2 of which are on the inner 

 face, and 4 secondary ones, (equal, more or less winged,) each 

 bearing a single row of slender bristly prickles. — Biennials, 

 with finely 2 to 3-pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, pinnatifid in- 

 volucre } involuccls of entire or o-cleft bracts, white flowers, and 

 concave umbels, dense in fruit. 



D. Carrota, L. Carrot. 



Son erect, hisped; leaves tri-pinnate; Uaflets pinnatifid; segments linear-lanceo- 

 late, a*ute. 



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