PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. iEgopodium. 77 



or not quite equilateral, broadest at the top. Styles at 

 first short, erect, tumid and ovate at the base ; subse- 

 quently elongated, thread-shaped, widely spreading and 

 reflexed, reaching half the length of the fruit, permanent. 

 Stigmas capitate. Floral Receptacle none. Fruit elliptic- 

 oblong, solid, slightly compressed, crowned with the re- 

 flexed styles. Seeds oblong, imperfectly cylindrical, slight- 

 ly incurved, each with 3 dorsal, and 2 marginal, promi- 

 nent, equidistant ribs ; the interstices nearly flat ; the 

 juncture close, hardly so broad as the diameter of each 

 seed. 

 Herbaceous, perennial, creeping extensively. Leaves once 

 or twice ternate, broad, pointed, serrated. Umbels ter- 

 minal and axillary, large, with many general^ as well as 

 •partial^ roughish rays^ entirely destitute oibracteas. Fruit 

 rarely perfected. 



1. iE. Podagraria. Common Gout-weed. Herb 

 Gerarde. 



/E. Podagraria. Linn.Sp. Pl.379. mild. v.]. 1476. Ft. Br. 334. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 14. t. 940. Hook. Scot. 95. Fl. Dan. t. 670. Ehrh. 

 PI. Off. 453. 



Sison Podagraria, Spreng. Prodr. 35. 



Podagraria n. 759. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 333. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 47. 



P. germanica aut belgica. Lob. Ic. 700./. 



Angelica sylvestris minor, seu erratica. Bauh. Pin. 155. Raii 

 Syn. 208. 



A. sylvestris repens. Moris, v. 3. 281, sect. 9. t. 4.f. 11, 



Herba Gerardi. Dod. Pempt. 320. f. Ger. Em. 100 1, f. 



In low moist cultivated ground, shady waste places, and under 

 hedges. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Roots creeping to a great extent, very difficult of extirpation. 

 Stems a foot or two in height, erect, leafy, hollow, furrowed, not 

 much branched, smootli. Lower leaves twice ternate, stalked j 

 upper simply ternate, almost sessile ; the uppermost opposite : 

 leaflets 1 or 2 inches, or more, in length, ovate, or half-heart- 

 shaped, taper-pointed, sharply serrated, smooth, dark green, 

 more or less stalked. Common footstalks broadly winged at the 

 base. Umbels large, convex, with numerous angular rays, finely 

 downy, more especially at one side ; as are likewise the more 

 copious and slender rays of the partial umbels. There are no 

 traces of general or partial bracteas at any time, as far as I have 

 been able to discover. Fl. crowded, pure white. Petals broader 

 than long, their points excepted. 



The root is pungently aromatic, with some acrimony, of which fla- 



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