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LIGUSTICUM LEVISTIGUM. 
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COMMON LOVAGE. 
$ TNO NT MA. LevifUcum. 
Pharm. Edinb. 
Ligufticum vul 
gare. Bank Pin.p.i S? . Ligufticum vulgare, foliis apii. J. Bauh. 
Hi. p. 122. Levifticum vulgare. 
The at. p. 936. 
Raii Hifl. p. 43 7. Angelica 
Gerard. Emac.p. 1008. 
Park. 
Paludapii folio. Tourn. Infl. p. 3 1 3. 
montana perennis, 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 346. 
Ef. Gen. Ch. ■ Fru&us oblongus, 5-fulcatus utrinque. Corolla sequale 
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Petalis involutis, integris. 
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Sp. Ch. 
L. foliis multiplieibus : foliolis fuperne incifis 
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^ THE root is perennial, long, tapering, branched, externally brown, 
internally whitifh ; the ftalk is ered, branched, fmooth, ftriated, and 
nfes five or fix feet in height : the upper leaves are fmall, and irregu- 
larly cut into narrow elliptical fegments 
doubly pinnated 
the lower leaves are larg 
pinna? indented, pointed, often lobed, and placed 
pairs with an odd one at the top : the flowers are fmall, of a whitifh 
yellow colour, and produced 
umbels are compofed of nearly 
mbels 
:qual 
: the general and partial 
t , A lumber of radii, and each 
furnifhed with involucra, confifting of about feven fimple ovate 
fegments : all the flowers are fertile : the corolla confifts of five petals, 
which are egg-fhaped, and turned inwards : the five filaments are 
capillary, fhorter than the 
and furnifhed with fimple antherae 
the germen is truncated at the top, upon which are placed two 
pufcles, fupporting two fhort ftyles, crowned with fimple 
ftigmata : the fruit 
oblong, an 
furrowed, divifible into two 
leeds, which are oblong, on one fide ftriated and convex, on the othe 
nat and fmooth : the flowers appear in June and July. It 
°f the Alps, and according to Mr. Alton was firft cultivated in England 
ty Mr. Gerard 
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