. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 614 UMBELLIFEBAE (PAESLEY FAMILY) 2. P NuttAllii (T)C.) Britton. Similar in habit; involuoral bracts short and entire ; fruit only 1 mm. long, as broad as higli, blunt. {Discoplaura DC.) — m. to e. Kan., La., and 824. A. 11. AEGOPdDIUM L. GouTWBED Fruit ovate, glabrous, with etjual filiform ribs, and no oil-tubes; stylopodium conical and prominent; seed nearly terete. — A coarse glabrous perennial, with creeping root- stock, sharply toothe
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 614 UMBELLIFEBAE (PAESLEY FAMILY) 2. P NuttAllii (T)C.) Britton. Similar in habit; involuoral bracts short and entire ; fruit only 1 mm. long, as broad as higli, blunt. {Discoplaura DC.) — m. to e. Kan., La., and 824. A. 11. AEGOPdDIUM L. GouTWBED Fruit ovate, glabrous, with etjual filiform ribs, and no oil-tubes; stylopodium conical and prominent; seed nearly terete. — A coarse glabrous perennial, with creeping root- stock, sharply toothed ovate leaflets, and rather large naked umbels of white flowers. (Name from ai'f, goat, and irbSiov, a little foot, probably from the shape of the leaflets.) 1. A. PodageXria L. —Waste-heaps, etc., e. Mass. to Del. (Adv. from Eu.) Fig. 824. 12. CICtrTA L. Watek Hemlock Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovoid to nearly orbicular, glabrous, with strong flattish corky ribs (the lateral largest) ; oil-tubes conspicuous, solitary; stylopodium depressed; seed nearly terete. — Very poisonous plants, with pinnately compound leaves and serrate leaflets, in- volucre usually none, involucels of several slender bractlets, and white flowers. (The ancient Latin name of the Hemlock.) 1. C. maculjlta L. (Spotted Cowbanb, Mdsquash Root, Beavek Poison.) Stem stout, m. high, streaked with purple; leaves 2-3-pinnate, the lower on long petioles; leaflets lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-12 cm. long, acuminate ; pedicels in the umbellets numerous,"very unequal; fruit broadly ovate to oval, mm. long, shallowl'i or not at all grooved at the com- missure.— N. B. to Va., and westvv., common. Fig. 825. 2. C. Curtlssii Coult. &, Rose. Coarser ; fruit 2-3 mm. long, subglobose, grooved at the junction of the carpels.—Va. to Ky., and southvv. —Perhaps only a variety of the preceding. 3. C. bulbifera L. Rather slender, 3-10 dm. high; leaves 2-3-pinnate (sometimes appearing tem
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