bryant’s

The journalist and Romantic poet’s accounts of travel. (P. 63: ＂Let me caution all emigrants to Illinois not to handle toofamiliarly the ’wild parsnip, ’ as it is commonly called, an umbelliferous plant growing in the moist prairies of this region’＂ Umbelliferous! While in the northern Mid-West, he makes extensive note of the Native Americans.