HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



low, i foot high, but at times several feet tall. Leaves, compound, 

 finely cut into thread-like divisions. Flower-bracts cut. June 

 to October. 



Its fine, white flowers and hair-like leaves are common 

 among the brackish marshes, wherever the water keeps their 

 roots perpetually moist. 



Water Hemlock or Spotted Cowbane 



Cicuta maculata. — Family, Parsley. This may be known by its 

 purple - streaked stem. It is a large, coarse plant, with white 

 flowers in large umbels. It grows from 2 to 6 feet high. The 

 lower leaves have long stems. They are twice or thrice pinnate, 

 coarsely serrate, heavily veined. August. 



The root is a deadly poison, perhaps making it the most 

 dangerous of our native plants. It has been eaten for sweet 

 cicely with fatal consequences. 



C. bulbifera. — A smaller and slenderer species, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 with leaflets less deeply toothed, and small bulblets growing in 

 clusters upon its upper axils. Leaves, 2 to 3 -pinnate. July to 

 September. 



Common in swamps and wet grounds a» far south as 

 Maryland . 



Caraway 



Ckrum Carvi. — Family, Parsley. Flowers in compound, ter- 

 minal umbels. Leaves, compound, some of the leaflets cut into 

 thread-like divisions. May to July. 



Escaped from old-fashioned gardens, where it has long 

 been a favorite plant on account of the pleasant taste of the 

 seeds, which are still used in cookies and buns. 



The fusiform root is said to be edible. 



Berula 



Berula ericta. — Family, Parsley. The umbels of flowers have 

 rather large involucres of narrow bracts underneath. Leaves, 

 pinnate, the 5 to 9 pairs of leaflets sharply or obtusely toothed or 

 lobed, 3 inches long or less. An erect stem, rather coarse, 6 to 

 30 inches high. July and August. 



In swamps and along banks of streams from Maine to 

 Michigan and southward. 



Water Parsnip 



Stum cicutaefoUum. — Family, Parsley. Flowers, as in all of this 

 family, in umbels. Leaves, pinnate. Leaflets, 3 to 6 pairs, serrate, 



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