﻿Contributions to the Flora of Cincinnati. 



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botanical manuals the description is inserted below. (Hooker's Students 

 Flora of British Islands, pp. 179-180.) 



"Caucalis, L. — Annual, hispid herbs; leaves, 1-3 pinnate; umbels 

 compound, terminal or leaf- opposed, usually of few rays sometimes 

 bracts few or none; bracteoles more numerous; flowers, white or 

 purplish, polygamous, Outer often rayed; calyx teeth acute or none; petals 

 often unequal, the larger notched, point inflexed ; disk lobes, thick, conical; 

 fruit, ovoid or oblong, constricted at the commissure ; carpophore undi- 

 vided or 2-fid; carpels sub-terete, ridges with one or two series of spines; 

 vittue solitary in each secondary ridge ; seed deeply grooved ventrally. 



" C. anthriscus, Hudson. — Leaves, 1-2 pinnate; leaflets, broad; um- 

 bels, terminal, compound ; bracts, 4-6 ; spines of fruit, incurved, not hooked. 



Hispid more or less; stem erect, branched, solid, striate ; 



hairs reflexed ; leaflets many, close set, one-fourth to one-third inches, pin- 

 natifid or lobed; umbels, 5-12-rayed; bracts, small subulate; flowers, min- 

 nute, white or pink, outer pedi celed, fertile; fruit, one-eighth inch, ovoid; 

 styles short, straight." 



244. Heracletjm lanatum, Michx. — Credited to Mr. Lea's catalogue, 

 but found this year at Cumminsville by Mr Going. It has a very large 

 umbel of greenish-white flowers, very large leaves and is very rank and 

 coarse in growth. 



253. Cicuta bulbifera, L. — Credited to Mr. Clark in the catalogue; 

 was found near Ludlow G-rove during 1883 by Mr. Spurlock. It grows 

 abundantly in wet places. It is easily distinguished from C. metadata, by 

 its linear leaflets, and the presence of numerous bulblets in the axils of the 

 leaves/ 



ARALIACEiE. 



261. Aralia spinosa, L., Hercules Club, etc. — This is not a common 

 plant in this vicinity, but is a striking one in appearance. It grows fifteen 

 or twenty feet nigh, with the slender trunk covered with prickles. The 

 large compound leaves spread out in a cluster near the top of the stem. 



COMPOSITE. 



310a. Aster longifolious, Lam. — Very common in places along the 

 Little Miami River at Loveland, 0. 



339. Xanthium spinosum, L. — Quite common along roads back of 

 Covington, but never yet found on this side of the river. 



347. Lepachys is now considered a synonym of rudbeckIa. 



