. 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 102nd meridian . 31. AETHUSA L. Sp. PI. 256. 1753. An annual glabrous herb, with pinnately dissected somewhat shining leaves, and com- pound umbels, both terminal and opposite the leaves. Involucre none, or of a single bract Bracts of the involucels 1-5, setaceous, turned to one side. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals inflexed at the apex. Stylopodium broad, thick. Fruit globose-ovoid, glabrous.
. 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 102nd meridian . 31. AETHUSA L. Sp. PI. 256. 1753. An annual glabrous herb, with pinnately dissected somewhat shining leaves, and com- pound umbels, both terminal and opposite the leaves. Involucre none, or of a single bract Bracts of the involucels 1-5, setaceous, turned to one side. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals inflexed at the apex. Stylopodium broad, thick. Fruit globose-ovoid, glabrous. Carpels dorsally compressed, the 5 ribs prominent, corky, acute, nearly equal; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed-face flat. [Greek, burning, from the shin- ing foliage.] A monotypic genus of Europe and Asia. I. Aethusa Cynapium L. Fool's Parsley or Cicely. Fig. 3147. Aethusa Cynapium L. Sp. PI. 256. 1753. Erect, leafy, dichotomously branched, rather slender, i°-24° high. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, the lower slender-petioled, the upper nearly sessile; petiole-bases dilated; ultimate segments linear, acutish; umbels long-peduncled, 2'-3' broad in fruit, 8-i2-rayed: rays ¥-i\' long; pedicels i"-4" long; bractlets of the involucels 2-4, linear, turned downward; fruit about li"long, somewhat longer than broad; flowers white. In waste places, Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania, On- tario and Minnesota. Poisonous. Adventiv« from Europe. False or dog's-parsley. Dog-poison. Small or lesser hemlock. Jurre-Sepf.
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