. 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 . Cicuta virosa Umb. 130. CiciiU identalis Greene, Pittonia 2 : Stout, erect, branching, 3°-6° high, the stem marked with purple lines. Roots several, fleshy, tuberiform, ovoid, or oblong; leaves petioled, bipinnate, or tripinnate, the lower often 1° long, and on long petioles, the upper smaller; leaf-segments lanceolate, or lance- oblong, coarsely and sharply serrate, I'-5'lo
. 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 . Cicuta virosa Umb. 130. CiciiU identalis Greene, Pittonia 2 : Stout, erect, branching, 3°-6° high, the stem marked with purple lines. Roots several, fleshy, tuberiform, ovoid, or oblong; leaves petioled, bipinnate, or tripinnate, the lower often 1° long, and on long petioles, the upper smaller; leaf-segments lanceolate, or lance- oblong, coarsely and sharply serrate, I'-5'long, their veins apparently ending in the notches; umbellets many-flowered: pedicels unequal, 2"-4" long in fruit; fruit oval to suborbicular, l"-li" long. In swamps and low grounds. New Brunswick to Manitoba, south to Florida and New Mexico. Poisonous. Spotted cowbane. Beaver-poison. Children's-bane. Musquash-poison. Wild parsnip. Snakeweed. Consists of several races, differing in width, thickness and serration of the leaf-seg- ments, shape of fruit and thickness of its lateral ribs. June-Aug. Cicuta Curtissii Coult. & Rose differs in having nearly orbicular fruit, and often broader leaf- segments. It inhabits the Southern States and is recorded as ranging northward into southern Virginia. 2. Cicuta bulbifera L. Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock. Fig. 3176. Cicuta bulbifera L. Sp. PI. 255. 1753. Erect, slender, much branched. i°-3*° high Roots few, fleshy, tuberiform. Leaves petioled, 2-3 pinnate, the upper ones less divided, smaller, and bearing numerous clustered bulb- lets in their axils; leaf-segments linear, spar- ingly serrate with distant teeth, i'-ij' long fruit broadly ovate, slightly more than l" long, seldom formed along the southern range o the species. In swamps, Nova Scotia to Maryland. Br Columbia, Indiana. Netraska and Oregon, cends to 2600 ft. in the Catskills. July-Sept.
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