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Descriptive Flora 



minute, strongly ribbed, usually tipped with 2 spreading or 

 recurving styles. March and April. In low moist places, rail- 

 road tracks, roadsides and river bottoms. 



Spernwlepis eohinatus (Nutt.) Heller. 



Plant, 2 to 12" high, with repeatedly forked branches, leaf 

 blades dissected into very narrow segments (no wider than a 

 midrib), and minute white flowers in compound umbels, ter- 

 minating long, slender, leafless, axillary peduncles. Easily con- 

 fused with Ptilimnium capillaceum but differs in the repeatedly 

 forked branching and the small ribbed fruits being covered with 

 short, white, hooked bristles. March to May. In sandy soil. 



Ammoselinum popei Torr. & Gray. Sand Parsley. 



Repeatedly forked branched plants, with ternately dissected 

 compound leaflets, minute white flowers, and spiny-ribbed seed 

 cases. Seed cases about long, flattened, 2-lobed, with 5 

 minutely spiny ribs on each lobe. In sand. February to March. 



Daucus pusilhis Michx. Wild Carrot. Bird's Nest. 



Queen Anne's Lace. 



This bristly-hairy, single-stemmed, erect, perennial relative 

 of our true carrot has a deep conical root. Foliage fringy and 

 fern-like, the leaves occurring only at intervals on the stem. 

 Flowers tiny, white, 5-parted, densely clustered in small, flat 

 wheels that are again grouped into a flat-topped disk 2 to 3 inches 

 across. The common name Queen Anne's Lace is very descriptive 

 of this fleecy, lace-like design of the flowers. Fruits so bristly 

 that they catch in clothing giving rise to the name Beggar's 

 Ticks. As the bristly seed cases ripen, the floral disk curves up- 

 ward, forming a hollowed nest, giving it another of its popular 

 names. March to May. A common weed. 



PRIMULACEAE. Primrose Family. 

 Samolus cuneatus Small. Water Pimpernel. Brookweed 

 Plants of wet limestone ledges or margins of spring fed 



