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POPULAR FLORA. 
Mock-Orange (or Syringa). Philadelphus. 
1. Common M. or Syringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant, in large panicles; styles separate. 
Cultivated. P. coronarius. 
2. Scentless M. Flowers larger and later than in the first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure 
white. Cultivated; also wild S. Leaves tasting like cucumbers. P. inoddrus . 
43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFERiE. 
Herbs with small flowers in compound umbels, the 5 petals and 5 stamens on the top of 
the ovary, with which the calyx is so incorporated that it is not apparent, except some¬ 
times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seecled, splitting when ripe into two 
akenes. Stems hollow. Leaves generally compound, decompound, or much cut. Some 
species are aromatic, having a volatile oil in the seeds: most, but not all, of these are 
harmless. Others contain a deadly poison in the roots and leaves. The deadly poisonous 
sorts are marked f : the most deadly is the Water-Hemlock , also called Musquash-root , and 
Beaver-Poison. — The kinds in this large family are known by their fruit, and are too 
difficult for the beginner. The principal common kinds are merely enumerated in the fol¬ 
lowing key. (Fig. 148 shows the compound umbel in Caraway, a good and familiar 
example of the family.) 
382 381 380 
383 379 384 
379. Part of Stem, leaf, umbel, &c. of Poison-Hemlock. 380. A separate umbellet. 381. A flower magnified. 382. A fruit. 383. Lower 
half of it cut off*. 384. Fruit of Sweet Cicely ; the two long akenes separating. 
