pa ecm elen F 0: 
j the Leonie and nails 
lucrum none. Radii 4 to 
the umbell in appearance 
volucell 5 to 7 parted, on 
Central flowers of the umb 
masculine; fertile flowers white, 
ly longer than the involucell. 
inflected. Calix minute, 5-toothed. 
sistent. Fruit large, subelliptic a 
or 8 conspicuously alated ridges. 
with 4 secondary wings, imperfect with 3. 
lated, intervals flat, commissure naked, (the n : 
extending to the centre, so as to cover the seed) ‘marked. 
with 3 nearly central longitudinal lines. Axis insepara- 
ble-from the fruit!—Has. On the open plains ofthe Mis- * 
souri, commencing 40 miles below the confluence of 
White river. Flowering time May and June. 
A genus of 6 or 7 species, indignaous to the south of 
Europe and Northern Africa. 2 
269, LIGUSTICUM. L. (Lovage.) 
Fruit oblong, corticate. Seed « with 5 acute 
ridges and 4 grooves.”+ Jusstev. SPRENGEL.. 
© Involucrum universal and ae many-leav- 
ed,?’ Sr. 
Leaves decompounded, for the most part ternately de? 
vided. Calix often $-toothed? ee 
Srecits. 1. L. scoticum. In Canada. 
Almost exclusively an European genus. 
270. ANGELICA. L. 
«« Fruit elliptic, compressed, somewhat solid 
and corticate, ridges 3, dorsal acute, intervals 
grooved, margin alated. Tire universal 
none.”’ SPRENGEL. 
tT Many huthors describe the seed, as having 5 grooves, vii 
is impossible in the nature of umbelliferous seeds, as they are 
_all referrible to a structure of 5 primary ridges, viz. 1 dorsal, — 
2iateral, and 2 marginal; when inlaid with secondary ridges the 
ca either obliterated, or produced comparatively b 
depression or ‘obliteration of the primary sles ations; : 
these never @xceed 4, so the intervening grooves, must ever be — 
3 or 4, or if srry teeta double, Chek, a be 
Sor 8, but never 5. Te sees 
hi the peduncle. Anyo- - 
y short; (soasto render -— 
he 
