
PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelliferae. 
inch across, without bracts, with a stout, ridged flower- 
stalk and composed of from two to ten smaller clusters, 
with small bracts; the anthers red. This grows in rich 
moist soil, in shady valleys, on mountain ridges; in the 
Wasatch Mountains, sometimes on the edge of the snow. 
Over a foot tall, with very pretty, dark 
Pteyrxia Cali- i 
plas agg green foliage and rather ugly, dull yellow 
fornica ‘ 
(Cym6 pterus) flowers, in flat-topped clusters, three inches 
oan across. The leaves are in a cluster at the 
ummer . 3 
Guts en root, with long leaf-stalks sheathing at 
base, very finely cut and toothed, with 
stifish points; the main fiower-cluster without bracts, but 
the smaller clusters with narrow bracts. . 
An odd-looking plant, for the foliage 
looks like pieces of a whisk-broom stuck 
- Parsley 3 ah - 
Cogswéllia platy. 12 the ground. It is six to fourteen inches 
car pa (Peuce- tall, with a thickish root and minute, 
danum simplex) sulphur-yellow flowers, forming a flat- 
ic gated topped cluster, about two inches across, 
Spring = 
Northwest and Without bracts, and composed of three to 
Utah - fifteen smaller clusters, with small bracts; 
usually only the outermost flowers of both 
the large and small clusters are fertile. The stem and 
leaves are stiff and sage-green, the root-leaves with broad 
leaf-stems, reddish and papery at base, sheathing the stem, 
and all the leaves cut into narrow divisions, not much 
thicker than pine needles, folded together so that they 
appear to be cylindrical. This grows on dry gravelly 
hills, at an altitude of from six to eight thousand feet. 
A fine, stout plant, about two feet tall, 
oe with a thick, spindle-shaped root and dark, 
multifida f 3 
(Ferula) rich-green, feathery foliage; the large 
Yellowish-green leaves, over a foot long, appearing smooth 
Spring,summer but really imperceptibly downy, finely cut 
Northwest, Nev, snd lobed, with long, stout leaf-stalks; 
Utah, New Mex. ; . : 
the small flowers, yellowish-green ‘or 
bronze-color, in flat-topped clusters, two or three inches 
across, with few or no bracts, with tall, stout flower-stalks, 
and composed of about eighteen, small clusters, forming 
round knobs, with many bracts, on slender pedicels of 
various lengths. This grows in rich soil and is con- 
spicuous on account of its size and foliage. 
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Whisk-broom 


