HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



very common in marshy places. The tiny flowers are clustered 

 in the axils. They are nearly stemless. Summer. 



The outward resemblance to other genera of the Parsley 

 Family is remote. All these species are sometimes aquatics. 

 The leaves have scale-like stipules. (See illustration, p. 101.) 



Sanicle. Black Snakeroot 



Sankula. marylandica. — Family, Parsley. Color, greenish white. 

 Small flowers in irregular or compound umbels, a few staminate, 

 without pistils. Fruit, roundish, composed of several prickly car- 

 pels. Leaves, palmately, 5 to 7 -parted, the divisions toothed, 

 pointed. Root-leaves long-stalked. May to July. 



A difficult plant to identify, having but little external ap- 

 pearance of a parsley, the small flowers and prickly fruit 

 making it puzzling. Eastern States to the Rocky Mountains. 



Sweet Cicely 



Osmorhiza. Claytbnu — Family, Parsley. Flowers in umbels, 

 with a few involucral bracts underneath. Leaves, thrice-com- 

 pound. Leaflets oval, toothed, softly hairy, tapering, 2 or 3 

 inches long. Plant graceful and delicate in its form and foliage. 

 The root is pleasantly anise-scented. May and June. 



Open woods in the Northern States, and in the mountains 

 farther south. 



0. longistylis has coarser stems than the last, with longer 

 leaflets. Style, long. Fruit, a beaked, roughish capsule. Rich 

 woods. 



Poison Hemlock 



Conium macvlktum. — Family, Parsley. Floivers, white, in um- 

 bels. Leaves, large, twice-divided. Leaflets pale green, lance- 

 shaped, cut. Stem spotted and smooth. A tall branching herb 

 whose leaves give forth an unpleasant odor when crushed. Both 

 involucre and involucels present of 3 to 5 bracts. 



Northern States, waste places. July. 



This plant is the famous hemlock which Socrates was con- 

 demned to drink. It was the means often employed in 

 Athens for putting criminals to death. It should be iden- 

 tified to be avoided, for its juices are as deadly to-day as 

 when the great philosopher calmly drank of the fatal cup. 



Mock Bishop's-weed 



PtHtmnium capittkceum. — Family, Parsley. Flowers in com- 

 pound umbels. A plant smooth-stemmed and branching, usually 



