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OTHER FLOWERING PLANTS 
den vegetables as parsnip, parsley, and carrots, and plants like 
fennel, dill, coriander, and caraway used for medicine and 
for flavoring food. These plants have hollow, ribbed stems, 
alternate, compound leaves, and flowers in an umbel (see 
Figure 201). 
Mint Family. — The members of this family are easily 
recognized by their square stems, opposite leaves with 
of Columbine. 
Showing spurred 
petals. Only a long- 
tongued insect can 
reach the nectar. 
Note the bunch of 
stamens upon which 
the insect alights. 
Figure 281. — Calla, a Flower with Spathe 
and Spadix. 
Representing a group of tropical plants of 
which Jack-in-the-pulpit is a common example 
in New York State. The spathe is a modi¬ 
fied leaf. 
crenate margins, and bilabiate flowers (an irregular flower 
divided into, two parts, see Figure 193). Peppermint, 
spearmint, catnip, horehound, pennyroyal, sage, savory, 
and thyme are some of the mints used for medicine and in 
food. 
Nightshade Family. — Here are found many poisonous 
plants, as tobacco and Jimson weed, from which stramonium 
