WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Cow Parsnip {Heracleum lanatum). Parsley family. 
June, July. 
A perennial with stout grooved stem sometimes reaching eight 
feet, bearing large fiat clusters of white flowers, with five stamens 
and five somewhat wedge-shaped petals, sometimes two-lobed. 
Leaves of three large, irregularly toothed leaflets, leaf-stalk clasp- 
ing the stem. Wet ground. From the Greek for Hercules. 
Honewort {Cryptotcenia canadensis). Parsley family. 
June, July. 
An upright perennial whose smooth stem has a maximum 
height of three feet. The irregular umbels have no involucre, 
and few rays; the tiny flowers have five petals, five stamens. 
The leaves have three leaflets, egg-shaped, double-toothed. 
Water Parsnip (Sium cicutcefolium) . Parsley family. 
July to October. 
An upright, stout perennial, maximum height six feet, bear- 
ing compound umbels of tiny flowers with five petals, five 
stamens with reddish anthers. Leaves with pinnate leaflets, 
narrow, sharply toothed, in one to three pairs. Lower leaves 
sometimes under water and finely dissected. 
Scotch Lovage {Ligusticum scbthicum). Parsley family. 
August. 
A perennial, rarely over a foot and a half high, growing from 
a very odorous root. The umbels are of good size, the flowers 
tiny, with five petals, five stamens. The leaves are temately 
compounded, the leaflets egg-shaped, with coarse teeth. This 
plant is much shorter than garden lovage, and is apt to grow 
along rocks in low ground near the coast. Named from Liguria, 
a province of ancient Italy. 
The enlargement in the illustration shows how the flower- 
stalks lengthen in fruit ; the linear bracts subtending the umbels 
extend beyond the flowers, but do not reach the fruit. The 
specimen drawn grew in Marblehead. 
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