wt so ian ae sie sale al, 
14. Ligusticum L, 
rerennial herbs with fragrant roots, the crovms covered with fibers 
from old leat=basese Leaves glabrous, broadly deltoid or pentagonal in 
outline, once or twice ternate, then veriously pinnate, the segments being 
either rhombic-ovate, merely toothed, distinct, or irregularly conflucnt’' 
and variously incised and toothed; petioles commonly as long as the blade 
or longer. Umbels several, long-peduncled, mostly naked, the pedicels naked 
or nearly soe “lowers white; calyxeteeth minute or ventinge Fruit oval, 
the wings acutely raised into a narrow wing; oil tubes 2-6 in the intervals, 
4-S on the commissural face; stylorodia depressed or manmilete, 
O Leaves commonly trice ternate, then vinnate with distinct 
4 rhombic-ovete bluntlv-toothed sepments le Le verticilletun 
Lesves ternate, then vinnstelv dissected into 
3 u 
«od lenceolste segments which are more 
or less confluent a i 
1, L. verticillatum (Geyer) C, & Re Stems 50-70 em. tall; basal leeves ample, 
che ocarlier subsessile, on short inflat 
ed petioles, the later on pedicels as 
long as the blade, exnanded only at the base, the blades once or tvrice ternate, 
then pinnate into rhomboid-ovate segnents 5=8 em, long, obtuse, narrowed and 
subontire below the middle, toothed above, the teeth ovete, acuminate, 
both surfaces glabrous, the lover oalers umbels several, the princinval one 
terminal, on peduncles 15-30 em, long, the revs subecual, 2-3 em, long in 
becoming 9 em, in fruit, without involucral bracts, the ncdicels unecual, 2=4: 
mie long, increasing to as much as 15 ma, in fruit; fruit oval, 5-7 mm, long, 
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the ribs acutely winged, not seen at met 
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maturity, the stylovodia thiclkish, dosressc 
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borders of ine woods on the high rlains offiez Yerce Indians".s Craig .tse: 
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