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Mock Bishop-Weed

Discopleura capillacea. Parsley Family.

One or two feet high, occasionally much taller. Stems.--Branching. Leaves.--Dissected into fine, thread-like divisions. Flowers.--White, very small; growing in compound umbels with thread-like bracts. This plant blossoms all summer in wet meadows, both inland and along the coast; but it is especially common in the saltmarshes near New York City. It probably owes its English name to the fancied resemblance between the bracted flower-clusters and a bishop's cap. Its effect is feathery and delicate.