. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. WEEDS OP THE PARSLEY FAMILY. 101 way seeds accompanies most of the fruits or mature seed pods. Thirty-two species of the family are listed as growing wild in the State, among them, besides the weeds below mentioned, being the cowbane, button snake-root, black snake-root, sweet-cicely, hone- wort, pennywort and that pretty little harbinger of spring, the turkey-pea or pepper and salt. The button snake^root differs from all the others in having the flowers clustered in dense bracted heads and the leaves lily-like. It is frequent in the wet prairies of west- ern In
. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. WEEDS OP THE PARSLEY FAMILY. 101 way seeds accompanies most of the fruits or mature seed pods. Thirty-two species of the family are listed as growing wild in the State, among them, besides the weeds below mentioned, being the cowbane, button snake-root, black snake-root, sweet-cicely, hone- wort, pennywort and that pretty little harbinger of spring, the turkey-pea or pepper and salt. The button snake^root differs from all the others in having the flowers clustered in dense bracted heads and the leaves lily-like. It is frequent in the wet prairies of west- ern Indiana. Among the cultivated members of the family are the carrot, parsley, celery, parsnip, coriander, fennel and caraway. Go. Dauous cakota L. Wild Carrot Queen Anne's Lace. Bird's Nest. Devil's Plague. (B. I. 1.) Erect, bristly, 1-3 feet high, from a deep, fleshy conical root; lower and basal leaves 2 or 3 times divided, the smaller segments linear, toothed or lobed; upper leaves smaller,, less divided. Flowers white, in com- pound umbels, which in age turn inward, forming a bird-nest-li'ke cavity. Fruit bristly on the winged ribs. Seeds brown, J inch long, oval, prickly. (Figs. 1, e; 67.) A handsome but vile weed which during the past 20 years has spread over most of Indiana. It occurs mainly along roadsides and in old neglected fields and meadows, espe- cially in poor, dry upland soil, and is much more common in southern Indiana, where such soil is prevalent, than in the northern counties. June-Oct. It is the original form of the cultivated carrot and is a na- tive of both Europe and Asia. The central flower of each umbel, and sometimes of each umbellet or little umbel, is often purple and the outer ones are sometimes partly or wholly pinkish. In the evening the flowers droop their heads and the young clusters of buds look especially weary, but in the morning all are standing up stiffly as if they had never thought of going to sleep. The seeds are very numerous, 50,000 havi
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