A more abiding "infirmitie" of some Hertfordshire cornfields is the crow-garlic, a wild onion whose pink umbels often surmount the crop in hundreds.
It is well, perhaps, that carum bulbocastanum should be saved from the pigs; for in that unlovely region its white umbels serve to lighten up the monotony of the waysides.
The umbels produce a yellow colour, and the juice of the other parts of the plant a beautiful green.
The umbels are employed by the spanish peasants to dye yellow.
Compound umbel of Common Dill (Anethum graveolens), having a primary umbel a, and secondary umbels b, without either involucre or involucel.
From the primary floral axis a the secondary axes come off in a radiating or umbrella-like manner, and end in small umbels b, which are called partial umbels or umbellules.
Spikes are solitary or many in terminal umbels or short racemes, erect or spreading.
The umbels of the flowers are white, and the seed very small, and so is the root, being also somewhat hot and quick in taste.
At the top of the stalks and branches stand umbels of white flowers, and after them come large seed, bigger than fennel seed, yet somewhat like it.
At the top of the stalks stand umbels of white flowers, after which come small and blackish seed.
The stalks are two feet high, bearing at the tops many yellow flowers set round together and all of an equal height, in umbels or tufts like unto tansy; after which follow small whitish seed, almost as big as wormseed.
It grows abundantly in our dry chalky pastures, bearing terminal umbels of white flowers.
This genuine Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) is a small plant, bearing yellow flowers in circular umbels on the tops of the stalks, which flowers are followed by seeds like those of the Fennel, but larger.
For this purpose the umbels of blossoms fully blown are strung closely together, and tied into a firm ball.
Belonging to the order of Caprifoliaceous (with leaves eaten by goats) plants, the Elder bush grows to the size of a small tree, bearing many white flowers in large flat umbels at the ends of the branches.
This name has been commonly applied to the Petty Spurge, or to the Sun Spurge, a familiar little weed growing abundantly in English gardens, with umbels of a golden green colour which "turn towards the sun.
Flowers yellowish in hemispherical umbels of 5 divisions, each subdivided in 2.
Flowers lateral in simple umbels of 3 or more flowerets.
The flowers are produced in cymes or compound umbels (see fig.
Notwithstanding the ease with which these plants may generally be recognised, as in some of the allied orders the flowers grow in umbels or cymes, it may be necessary to remark that Dr.
Ovaries in a head; flowers in racemes or umbels --2.
Leaves deeply palmately cleft or divided; flowers in head-like umbels --18a.
Flowers in smallumbels or corymbs (flowers white, in spring) --32.
Bristly annuals or biennials, with pinnately decompound leaves, foliaceous and cleft involucral bracts, and white flowers in compound umbels which become strongly concave.
Stems reclining; leaves broader and more commonly opposite, and umbels from most of the upper axils.
Small glabrous creeping perennials, rooting in the mud, with small simple umbels and leaves reduced to hollow cylindrical jointed petioles.
Flowers mostly in umbels and nearly as in Umbelliferae; petals not inflexed and styles 2 or more.
Umbels irregular or compound, the flowers (greenish or yellowish) capitate in the umbellets, perfect, and with staminate ones intermixed.
A coarse glabrous perennial, with creeping rootstock, biternate leaves, sharply toothed ovate leaflets, and rather large naked umbels of white flowers.
Young branches and buds pubescent; leaves oblong, obtuse or heart-shaped at base, downy beneath; umbels few.
Glabrous herbs or shrubs, with pinnate leaves, and the flowers in umbels terminating axillary peduncles.
Umbels usually compound, in which case the secondary ones are termed umbellets; the whorl of bracts which often subtends the general umbel is the involucre, and those of the umbellets the involucels.
Umbels mostly more than one; peduncle not overtopping the leaves.
The flowers are yellow, in large spreading umbelsfive or six inches in diameter.
The flowers are small, white, and are produced in umbels at the extremities of the branches.
The flowers are gathered into three, rounded umbels at the top of a long stem that joins the leaf-stem near its base.
They grow in few-flowered umbels at the end of the stem on slender peduncles from the axils of some of the leaves.
The beautiful orange flowers grow in flat-topped clusters or umbels at the summit of the plant.
Flowers appearing in January before the unfolding of the young leaves, the umbels on peduncles sometimes 1' in length.
Flowers in axillary many-flowered umbels inclosed before anthesis in an involucre of deciduous scales.
Flowers in axillary umbels or corymbs; fruit bright red and lustrous, 1/2' in diameter or less; leaves conduplicate in the bud.
The leaves are often eight or nine inches long, and about an inch and a half in breadth, and the flowers start from loose umbelsat the end of the branches.
The foliage is magnificent, and of the sweetest green, while the beauty of the tree is enhanced by the clusters of cerulean flowers, which hang in loose umbelsfrom almost every spray.
Its stems, which branch freely from the base, bear mere linear leaves and small lilac flowers, in little umbels of 10 to 20 blossoms each.
Like celery seed, parsley seed ripens very irregularly, some umbels being ready to cut from one to three weeks earlier than others.
The glaucous, smooth, hollow, branching stems bear very threadlike leaves and in midsummer compound umbels with numerous yellow flowers, whose small petals are rolled inward.
During the second season the erect, branched, channeled flower stems rise 2 feet or more high, and at their extremities bear umbels of little greenish flowers.
Hooker and Thomson relate that in Northern India the flowers of Anemone rivularis are very generally absent, and their place supplied by tufts or umbels of leaves.
As the season advanced, one of these plants threw up two naked scapes, 7 inches in height, which bore umbels of flowers of the same character as before.
For instance I raised a red primrose from seed from a protected plant, and the flowers, though still resembling those of the primrose, were borne during one season in umbels on a long foot-stalk like that of a cowslip.
The plants were accidentally exposed in the greenhouse to too hot a sun, and a large number of umbels perished.
These umbels are compound, with about five or six rays, usually without primary bracts, but with several, narrow, secondary ones.
The umbels are small, on short stalks in the angles of the branches or opposite the leaves.
Climbing shrub with clinging rootlets, evergreen leaves, umbels of yellowish flowers, and black berries.
The umbels are terminal, without primary or secondary bracts; and the flowers are small, of a bright yellow colour, producing flattened, winged fruits.
The white flowers are arranged in compound umbels with short stalks, and the umbels droop before the flowers open.
The umbels are terminal, with from eight to sixteen slender rays, and no bracts.
Herbs with mostly compound, pinnate leaves, sheathing at the base; and compoundumbels of small, white flowers.
The umbelsare usually terminal, and droop before the flowers are open.
The flowers are greenish white, in umbels of many rays, with few or no primary or secondary bracts; and the fruits are oblong, about a sixth of an inch long, with the two diverging styles curved downward.
The umbels are very small, terminal, and surrounded by a leafy involucre that is divided into several lobes longer than the flowers.
The flowers are white, in terminal compound umbels which droop in the bud.
The umbels are on long stalks, and have nearly twenty rays, several narrow secondary bracts, and sometimes a few primary ones.
The first, they came forth from the earth under their umbels of ivory to find out whether the feet of the hedge were still surrounded by moss.
The thick, fleshy root is hollow, and divided in the interior into sections; the upright stem is hollow and smooth; the leaves are tripennate; the small white blossoms are arranged in umbels of ten or more rays.
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The small corms are covered with netted pale brown coats, from which spring long narrow leaves, and umbels of bright yellow starry flowers about June or July.
The leaves are very narrow, while the tubular flowers are borne in loose umbels in June or July on top of slender wiry stalks 2 to 3 feet high.
The bulbs are tunicated, the leaves either flat as in the Leek, or roundish and hollow as in the ordinary Onion, while the 6-petalled starry flowers are borne in umbels on the top of the shoot that springs out of the bulb under the ground.
It is closely related to the Alliums, as may be seen by its umbels of white starry flowers, the segments of which are keeled with lilac on the outside.
The flowers of all are too minute to be individually pretty, but every one knows how charming are the umbels of our wild carrot, resembling as they do the choicest old lace.
Between these two overlapping ends, the gaumet of the chaparral is run in blues of wild lilac, reds and purples of rhus and buckthorn and the wide, white umbels of the alder, which here becomes a tree fifty to sixty feet in height.
This species bears yellowish-white flowers, in umbels about a foot in diameter, and grows to a height of from 6 ft.
The flowers are of a light rose-colour, and agreeably fragrant, and are borne in large umbels at the tops of the stems.
Both have long leaves in opposite rows and umbels of flowers, which are of various shades of yellow, orange, or scarlet.
They have umbels of pretty, reflexed flowers, and grow about one and a half feet high.
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