PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Angelica. 79 



ther indigenous or not is uncertain. Lightfoot. Haller says it 

 is altogether an alpine plant. Professor Hooker mentions se- 

 veral stations in Scotland, chiefly about antient residences, in- 

 dicating its being a naturalized plant. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fleshy, tuberous, somewhat creeping, of an aromatic and acrid 

 quality, long supposed a sovereign counter-poison, and cele- 

 brated as a powerful external, as well as internal, remedy, in 

 numerous disorders. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, erect, hollow, round, 

 striated, smooth, leafy, slightly branched. Lower leaves on long 

 stalks, twice ternate ; upper less compound, on shorter stalks, 

 with a sheathing, membranous, sometimes jagged, dilatation at 

 the base. Leajiets 2 or 3 inches long, and broad in proportion, 

 veiny, smooth on both sides, rough-edged, finely and sharply ser- 

 rated, partly cut or lobed, the middle one, sometimes all three, 

 deeply three-cleft ; the uppermost often very narrow. Umbels 

 broad, flattish, of about 40 smooth general rays, 8 or 10 inches 

 wide when in seed ; the partial rays still more numerous, Fl. 

 small, white, or pale flesh-coloured, almost perfectly uniform 

 and regular. 



Sprengel has referred 5 new species to this genus, which originally 

 consisted of but one ; and nevertheless he makes the want of 

 general bracteas the only difterence between Imperatoria and Se- 

 linum. Of these 5 plants, Selinum Chabrcci is, like other true 

 species of Selinum, so widely difl"erent in its pinnate, very nar- 

 row, leaves, short sttjles, floral receptacle, and ribs of the seed, 

 from Imperatoria, that no good principles can bring them to- 

 gether. Selinum caucasicum I know nothing of; nor have I 

 seen Imperatoria angustifolia of Bellardi. Angelica lucida and 

 verticillaris of Linnseus do indeed appear to be justly removed by 

 Professor Sprengel to Imperatoria, and I have therefore given 

 to our British species a discriminating specific character. The 

 great breadth of the wings in Imperatoria, each of which is at 

 least as broad as the disk or body of the seed ; the deep sinus ^ at 

 the base ; and the ribs being not bordered or winged, distin- 

 guish this genus from Angelica. 



159. ANGELICA. Angelica. 



Lmw. Gen. 138. Juss.222. Fl.Br.3l\. Lam. 1. 198. Gartn.t.85. 



Fl. all perfect, prolific, and regular. Cal. none. Pet. 5, 

 equal, lanceolate, flattish, with an inflexed point ; their 

 base contracted. Filam. thread-shaped, spreading, longer 

 than the corolla. Anth. roundish. Germen inferior, ovate, 

 strongly furrowed. Styles in the flower very short, erect, 

 broad and tumid at the base; subsequendy elongated, 

 recurved. Stigmas capitate. Floral Receptacle thin, wavy, 

 projecting a litde beyond the bases of the styles as the 



