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sharply pointed; often a terminal leaflet. A variety, 5. Carsonii, 

 has submerged leaves, aquatic, with i to 3 pairs of leaflets, much 

 cut, thin, floating or immersed. Stem, tall, 2 to 6 feet high, 

 grooved, angled. July to October. 



A poisonous species. Common in wet places. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 103.) 



Scotch Lovage. Sea Parsley 



Ligusticum scothicum. — Family, Parsley. Flowers, in large, 

 compound umbels, on pedicels about half an inch long. Leaves, 

 fleshy, 3 -divided, shining, the leaf-segments toothed, shining. 

 Stems, mostly simple, 1 to 3 feet tall. July and August. 



Salt marshes along the New England coast. 



Fool's Parsley 



Aethusa Cynkpium. — Family, Parsley. No involucre, but in- 

 volucels of long, narrow leaves under the umbellets of white 

 flowers. Leaves, twice or thrice compound, the divisions cleft 

 again and again. Taste, acrid and burning. 12 to 30 inches 

 high. July and August. 



A poisonous and ill-smelling annual, naturalized from Eu- 

 rope. 



Cow Parsnip 



Heracleum Unktum. — Family, Parsley. Color, white or some- 

 times purplish. Of the umbel, the outer flowers are larger than 

 the others, with inversely heart-shaped petals. Both involucre 

 and involucels of green bracts present. Leaves, thrice compound. 

 Leaflets, broad, toothed. 



A coarse, rough plant, sometimes 8 feet high, with a rank 

 smell about its foliage. In swamps or wet grounds over 

 nearly the whole country. 



Cowbane 



Oxypolis rigidior. — Family, Parsley. This species has tuber- 

 bearing roots which are poisonous. Its umbels of white flowers 

 appear in August. It is from 2 to 5 feet tall, with pinnate leaves, 

 once cut. Leaflets, 3 to 9. An involucre of fine bracts lies under 

 the umbel, and smaller bracts underlie the secondary umbellets. 



A coarse plant of swamps and low grounds. Probably its 

 parts are all more or less poisonous. Found in all the 

 Eastern States. 



Hemlock Parsley 



ConioseVinum chinense. — Family, Parsley. No involucre, but 

 fine, long, thin bracts form an involucel under the umbellets. 



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