MEUM. 



plant. 355. Fee cours. ii. 203. iEthusa Meum L. Ligusticum 

 capillaceum Lam. Ligusticum Meum Crantz. Meov aQa.[jL%vTtKov, 

 Dioscorid. — Mountainous pastures all over Europe. 



Leaves supra-decompound with capillary segments. Stem some- 

 what branched and leafy. Involucre with hardly more than 1 bract ; 

 involucels scarcely extending more than half way round the umbel. — 

 The roots are fusiform, and about as thick as the finger, with numerous 

 transverse close wrinkles. They are aromatic and sweet, something like 

 carrot, and contain a small quantity of essential oil. They form an 

 ingredient in Venice treacle. (Radix Mei Offidn.) 



93. M. Mutellina Gcertn. Carp. i. t. 23. DC. prodr. iv. 162. 

 — Phellandrium Mutellina Linn. sp. plant. 366. Jacq.fi. austr. 

 t. 56. iEthusa Mutellina L,am. CEnanthe purpurea Lam. — Sub- 

 alpine meadows in the middle of Europe. 



Leaves twice or thrice pinnated; segments linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Stem nearly naked and simple. Involucre none ; leaflets of involucels 

 lanceolate. — Used like the last. (Radix Mutellina? Officin.) 



ANGELICA. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals lanceolate, entire, acuminated, with 

 the point straight or curved inwards. Fruit compressed at the 

 back, with a central raphe, 2-winged on each side. Half-fruits 

 with 3 filiform dorsal elevated ridges, the 2 laterals dilated into 

 a membranous wing. Channels with single vittae. — Peren- 

 nials or biennials. Leaves bipinnated. Umbels terminal. Invo- 

 lucre none, or few-leaved; involucel many-leaved. Flowers white. 



94. A. nemorosa Tenore sylloge 561. — Bracala Neapol. — 

 Valleys, damp woods and low watery places in the kingdom of 

 Naples. 



Stem at the upper part and peduncles downy. Leaves 3-pinnate ; 

 segments ovate short bluntish serrated decurrent at base. Involucre 

 none. Half-fruits elliptical ; the wings as broad as the dorsal crested 

 ridges. Smell of the fruit hircine; root acrid. — The root is reckoned 

 by the Neapolitans one of their best remedies against the itch. 



ARCHANGELICA. 



Calyx with 5 short teeth. Half-fruits with thick keeled ridges. 

 Seed not adhering to the integument, covered all over with nu- 

 merous vittae. Otherwise the same as Angelica. 



95. A officinalis Koch. umb. 98. f. 17. 19. DC. prodr. iv. 

 169. Nees'and Eberm.pl. med. 279. 280. handb. iii. 60. S. and C. 

 ii. t. 83. Smith Eng.fi. ii. 80. — Angelica Archangelica Linn. 

 sp. 360. Eng. Bot. t. 2561. — Watery places in the northern 

 parts of Europe. 



Root large, fleshy, branched, resinous, pungently aromatic. Stem 



erect, 4 or 5 feet high, and from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, leafy, 



branched in the upper part, striated, polished, a little glaucous. The 

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