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Descriptive Flora 



stone fruits the size of peas. Leaves simple, not toothed, opposite. 

 Blades oval to ovate, 1 to 5" long, long pointed, conspicuously 

 heavy- veined beneath. Petals 4, small. Stamens 4. In low, rich 

 river bottoms. March and April. 



API ACE AE. Parsley Family. 

 AMMIACEAE. Carrot Family. In Small 9 s Flora. 

 KEY TO API ACE AE. Carrot Family. 



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L. Leaf -blades perfectly round, glassy Hydrocotyle — 152 



II. Blades not perfectly round 



A. Plants thistle-like, flowers purple Eryngium— 153 



B. Plants not thistle-like, flowers not purple. 



1. Stems weak, leaves broader than long, not 



dissected Bowlesia — 153 



2. Leaves dissected. 



a. Stems largely simple below, 1 to 3' high. 



(1) Flowers yellow Phanero taenia — 154 



(2) Flowers white. 



o. Stems rough, fruit bristly Daucus — 156 



p. Stems smooth, fruit not bristly P. laciniatum — 155 



b. Stems usually branched below. 



(1) Fruits bristly. 



o. Fruits covered with hooked hairs Spermolepis — 156 



p. Fruits not covered with hooked 



hairs Ammoselinum — 156 



(2) Fruits not bristly. 



o. Fruits oblong .Chaerophyllum— 153 



p. Fruits broader than long. 



(x) Flowers minute, greenish P. capillaceum— 155 



(y) Flowers white, in showy 



clusters P. nuttallii — 154 



Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. Marsh Pennywort 



(Hydrocotyle interrupt a Muhl.) Water Pennywort. 



Cupid's Table. 



This is the plant with round, glossy leaves with the leaf 

 stalks coming directly out of the mud and united to the blade in 

 the center of each. Flowers minute, in tiny whorls at intervals 



