PENTANDRIA, DIGYN1A. 



Bishop* i-wted* 



>m afoot to fourteen inchei high. Flowers white. Along 

 the shores of the Delaware where the tide reach es , aotuofi 



it. Annual. June, Jul\ . 



1 I ( OMl M (.on. pi. 469. f Umbelli/crx.J 



Cali.v entire. Petal* unequal, cordately in- 

 flected. Fruit ovate, gibbons. Seeds 5' 

 ribbed, ribs at first crenate; intervals flat 



Involuct 11 on one side, mostly 3-leaved. — 

 •\'utt. 



1. C. seeds striate. — WiUd. ■sssJss-sss, 



Leon. lacq. austr. 156. (Pursb.) 



Btudock* Clcuta. 



\ well known narcotic medicinal plant, yielding- the Cicuta 

 ofthephannacopaeiML Introduced, andsometimes. though rarely 

 found in this neighbourhood, with the appearance of growing 

 wild. Whole plant poisonous. BienniaL June. 



134. HERA4 1.KIM. Gen. pi. 477. fUmbeBifine.J 



Cclix nearly entire. Petals emarginaiely 

 inflected, often of 2 forms. Fruit elliptic, 

 deroally compressed, tint, apex, emargi- 

 nate. margin membranaceous. Seed with 

 .* stria*. •• intervals maculate half way 

 down. — commissure flat, bimacalate." — 

 Bprengel. — Involucrum none. — JS'utt. 



l. H. petiolefl and nerves of the leaves very vil- lanttm*. 

 Ions on the underside; leaves trifoliate, folioles 

 all jntiidiite, large subrotund-cordate, subnal- 

 mate-lobate, seeds orbicular. — Mich, 



Cow Parsnip. 



Perhaps the largest umbelliferous plant native of thr- United 

 .a, being often six or bcvui feet high. The umbels and 



