. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEKING PLANTS 201. Fig. 175. Ginseng {Panaxquinquefolio). After Britt & Brown, 111. PL Northern U. S. is the dwarf ginseng or ground-nut (P. trifoliv/m), a smooth herb only 3-8 inches in height. The widely known English ivy {Hedera Helix) is also a member of this family. It is a native of the Old World, but is now grown in many varieties in nearly all parts of the world. The celebrated rice paper of the Chinese is made from the pith of Fatsia papyri/era. It is about 10 feet in height and 4 inches in diameter, with a wh
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEKING PLANTS 201. Fig. 175. Ginseng {Panaxquinquefolio). After Britt & Brown, 111. PL Northern U. S. is the dwarf ginseng or ground-nut (P. trifoliv/m), a smooth herb only 3-8 inches in height. The widely known English ivy {Hedera Helix) is also a member of this family. It is a native of the Old World, but is now grown in many varieties in nearly all parts of the world. The celebrated rice paper of the Chinese is made from the pith of Fatsia papyri/era. It is about 10 feet in height and 4 inches in diameter, with a white elder-like pith an inch or more in diameter. A number of other genera, as Acanthopanax, Polyscias, etc., are in ornamental cultivation. Family Umbelliferae. Carrot Family. A large, widely distributed family of 170 genera and about 1600 species. They are herbs, often strongly scented, with alternate, mostly compound leaves and small, often inconspicuous flowers borne usually in single or compound umbels. The calyx-tube is short, joined with the ovary and bears the 5 petals on its margin. The stamens are also 5, but borne on a disk which sur- rounds the pistil. The fruit is dry and composed of two flattened carpels. Although closely circumscribed as a family, the genera and, species are often limited and discriminated with great dif&culty. This is on the whole an important family and supplies a number of edible plants, as the carrot, celery, parsnip, caraway, parsley and cori- ander; and in old gardens, lovage and fennel are grown for their sweet- aromatic foliage. Poison hemlock (Conium) water parsnip (Sium) and water hemlock {Cicuta) are rank-growing, iU-scented poisonous plants, not infrequently causing the death of persons eating the roots or stems. Family Comaceae. Dogwood Family. A small but interesting group of about 16 genera and 85 species. They are shrubs or trees with simple leaves and regular flowers in cymes, heads, or rarely solitary, and. Please note that t
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