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long; flowers 50 to 60 in a single umbel; calyx a mere rim ; berry black.— 
Woocled canons. * 
2. KEDERA L. Ivy 
Woody evergreen plants climbing by adventitious rootlets, with simple 
palmately 3 to 5-lobed or angled leaves or thos.e of the upper flowering 
branches ovate. Flowers greenish, in panicled or clustered umbels. 
Ovary 5 or 10-celled, the 5 styles united into a conical column. Berry 
black. (Ancient Latin name of the ivy.) 
1. H. helix L. English Ivy. Climbing on shady walls; leaves round¬ 
ish cordate, glossy.—Cult, from Eur. 
UMBELLIFERAE. PARSLEY FAMILY 
Herbs with commonly hollow stems. Leaves compound or often simple. 
Flowers small, in simple or compound umbels, or the umbel reduced to a 
head. Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, with 5 minute or obsolete 
teeth. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 2. Ovary 2-celled, splitting when 
ripe into 2 seed-like fruits, each half often with 5 longitudinal ribs on 
the back and with longitudinal oil-tubes in the tissue of the pericarp.— 
The 5 ribs of the fruit are sometimes conspicuous, with one down the 
back (the dorsal), one on each side (the lateral) and two between (the 
intermediate).—This important family, containing about 1300 species, is 
found in all continents but is most abundant in the northern hemisphere. 
It is remarkable for containing a large number of poisonous, edible and 
aromatic plants. The foliage of Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum 
L.) and Fool's Parsley (Aethusa cynapium L.) are deadly poisons, as 
are the roots of Water Hemlock (Cicuta), while the roots and leaves of 
many other species described below are edible. The fruits or “seeds’* are 
wholesome, in all probability, in all species. 
A. Fruit bearing prickles, bristles, scales or tubercles. 
Ribs and oil-tubes none. 
Fruit covered with scales ; flowers greenish-white or blue. 1. Eryngium. 
Fruit covered with hooked prickles; flowers yellow or purple.. ..2. Sanicula. 
Ribs present; flowers white. 
Oil-tubes none or obscure. 
Fruit conspicuously long-beaked; annuals.3. Scandix. 
Fruit not beaked or short-beaked ; perennials.4. Osmorrhiza. 
Oil-tubes present, usually conspicuous. 
Ribs armed with bristles. 5. Daucus. 
Ribs not armed, inconspicuous; fruit tuberculate-roughened. 
6. Apiastrum. 
B. Fruit not prickly or tuberculate nor scaly. 
Leaves simple ; umbels simple. 7. Bowlesia. 
Leaves compound; umbels compound. 
Ribs of the fruit not winged. 
Flowers white, rarely pinkish. 
Oil-tubes none; fruit ovate; stems purple-dotted.8. Conium. 
Oil-tubes present. 
Petals conspicuously unequal... 9. Coriandrum. 
Petals equal or essentially so. 
Umbels subsessile in the forks and terminal on the branches. 
10. Apium. 
