. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. UMBELLALES. 519 Figs. 456-GO.—Illustrations of FtEiricuLUM vuiiQABS. Au. Maqhitisd. United States, is hard and fine-grained, and is sometimes used as a sub- stitute for Boxwood. Tke wood of Nysaa muUiflora, the Sour Gum, Tupelo, or Peppridge tree of the Eastern United States, is exceedingly difficult to split, and is much used for making hubs for wagon wheels. Order Araliaceee.—Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs, with mostly al- ternate compound leaves ; fruit usually a berry or drupe. Species 340, mostly tropical. Some of the species of ^r-ato are or
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. UMBELLALES. 519 Figs. 456-GO.—Illustrations of FtEiricuLUM vuiiQABS. Au. Maqhitisd. United States, is hard and fine-grained, and is sometimes used as a sub- stitute for Boxwood. Tke wood of Nysaa muUiflora, the Sour Gum, Tupelo, or Peppridge tree of the Eastern United States, is exceedingly difficult to split, and is much used for making hubs for wagon wheels. Order Araliaceee.—Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs, with mostly al- ternate compound leaves ; fruit usually a berry or drupe. Species 340, mostly tropical. Some of the species of ^r-ato are ornamental—, A. spinosa and A. raeemosa, of the Eastern and South- ern United States. Sedera Helix, the English Ivy of Eu- rope and Western Asia, is a well- known ornamental climber. Aralia quinquefo- lia. Ginseng, is com- mon in many parts of the Eastern United States. Its root is officinal. Aralia papyrife- ra, a small tree of China, is the source of the Chinese Rice paper ; for this pur- pose the pith is cut into thin sheets and then pressed flat. Order TTmbellif- erse.—Herbs, rarely shrubs or trees, with alternate and usual- ly much dissected leaves; fruit dry and indehiscent. Species 1300, found most abundantly in Northern Europe and Asia, although occur- rino- in nearly all countries. Many contain an acrid poisonous princi- ple, and the plants of tlie order may usually be regarded with suspi- cion. In a general way it may be said that the fruits are arouiatic and innoxious, and the grern partsacrid and poisonous. (Figs. 456-60.) The Parsnip {Fantinaea sativa) and the Carrot {Daueus Carotoi), both natives of Europe, are valuable and well-known food plants. In their wild state they are poisonous. Apium grameolens. Celery, a native of- Europe, is deservedly popular. Fig. 466.—Flower. Fig. 458.—Flower diagram. Fig. 460.—Section of seed. Fig. 457.—Seciion of flower. Fig. 459.—Ripe Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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