. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Ptilimnium Nuttallii (DC.) Britton. Nuttall's Mock Bishop-weed. Fig. Peucedanum verticillatitm Raf. Fl. Ludov. 8i. 1817? Discopleura Nuttallii DC. Mem. Omb. 38. 1829. Discopleura capillacea var. Nuttallii Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12: 292. 1887. Ptilimnium Nuttallii Britton, Mem. Torn Club 5 : 244. 1894. Similar to the preceding species, but genera
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Ptilimnium Nuttallii (DC.) Britton. Nuttall's Mock Bishop-weed. Fig. Peucedanum verticillatitm Raf. Fl. Ludov. 8i. 1817? Discopleura Nuttallii DC. Mem. Omb. 38. 1829. Discopleura capillacea var. Nuttallii Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12: 292. 1887. Ptilimnium Nuttallii Britton, Mem. Torn Club 5 : 244. 1894. Similar to the preceding species, but generally stouter, 2°-3° high, the branches nearly erect. Umbels 7-25-rayed; bracts of the involucre linear, entire, short, those of the involucels minute; fruit nearly orbicular, obtusish, about i" long. In swamps, Illinois to Kansas, Louisiana and Texas. May-Sept. 49. CICUTA L. Sp. PI. 255. 1753. Erect tall perennial glabrous herbs, with pinnate or pinnately compound leaves, and compound terminal umbels of white flowers. Involucre of few bracts, or none; involucels many-bracted. Calyx-teeth acute. Petals broad, the apex inflexed. Stylopodium short- conic; fruit ovoid, or oblong, glabrous, slightly flattened laterally. Ribs corky, the lateral ones rather the strongest; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed nearly terete. [The ancient Latin name.] About 8 species, natives of the north temperate zone and M'exico. Besides the following about 4 others occur in western North America. Type species : Cicuta virosa L. Leaf-segments lanceolate. Leaf-segments narrowly linear. 1. C. maculata. 2. C. bulbifera. 42. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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