WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Sanicle {Sanicula marilandica). Parsley family. May 
to July. 
A perennial, maximum height four feet, with minute flowers 
in small umbels ; five incurved petals from which protrude two 
long styles. Staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant 
(monoecious). The lower leaves have long stalks, the upper no 
stalks; all have palmate divisions, generally toothed. Woods. 
Latin sane, I heal. 
Sweet Cicely (OsmorJnza longistylis). Parsley family. 
May, June. 
Maximum height three feet. Flowers small, in open umbels, 
with involucre of narrow bracts; five petals, notched at end, 
five stamens, calyx without teeth, styles one-twelfth inch long 
in fruit, those of the 0. brevistylis being half as long. Leaves 
divided in threes; leaflets egg-shaped, variously toothed. The 
root has a fennel odor. This plant should not be confounded 
with Spotted Cowbane. 
Spotted Cowbane. Water Hemlock (Czcw/a wacM/a/a). 
Parsley family. June to August. 
A perennial, maximum height six feet, stem with purple streaks. 
Tiny, five-petalled flowers in compound umbels, many in an 
umbel, polygamous. The leaves are doubly and pinnately 
compound, the lower on long leaf -stalks, with coarse teeth and 
prominent veins ending in the notches. Root poisonous. Wet 
ground. 
Bristly Sarsaparilla (Aralia hispid a). Ginseng family, 
June, July. 
An upright bristly perennial, maximum height three feet, 
from a long root. Umbels of small flowers, having five petals 
and five stamens. The leaves are twice-divided, the leaflets 
oblong to egg-shaped, pointed, sharply toothed. Rocky and 
sandy places. Fruit broad, five-lobed. 
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