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 lleceptacle none. Fruit elliptic- 

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

 flexed styles. Seeds oblong, imperfectly cylindrical, slight- 

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

 nent, equidistant ribs ; the interstices nearly flat ; the 

 juncture close, hardly so broad as the diametei* 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 raijs, entirely destitute oi^bractcas. Fruit 

 rarely perfected. 



1. /E. Podagraria. Common Gout-weed. Herb 

 Gerarde. 



iE. Podagraria. Linn. Sp. PI. 370. TVilld.v.X. 14/6. J7. J5r. 334. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 14. ^.940. Hook. Scot. 95. FL Dan. t. C70. Ehrh. 

 PI. Of. 433. 



8ison Podagravia. Sprcng. Prodr.33. 



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



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



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

 Sijn. 208. 



A. sylvestris repens. Moris, v. 3. 281. sect. 9. t. 4./. 1 1. 



Hcrba Gerardi. Dad. Pempt. 320. f. Ger. Em. lOOl.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, smooth. Lower leaves twice ternate, stalked ; 

 iij)])f'r simply ternate, almost sessile ; the uppermost opj)osite : 

 lea/lets 1 or 2 inches, or more, in length, ovate, or half heart- 

 shaped, taj)er-pointed, sharply serrated, smooth, dark green, 

 more or less stalked. Common footstalks broadly winged at the 

 b:i.se. Umbels large, convex, with numerous angular rai/s, finely 

 downy, more e:-;))ecially at one side ; as are likewise the more 

 coi)ious and slender rtn/s of the partial umbels. There are no 

 traces o{ general or partial br<(ctc(is at any time, as far as I have 

 been able to discover. /•'/. crowded, pur*; wiiite. Petals broader 

 than long, their ])oints excepted. 



The root is pungenlly aromatic, with sonu* aniniony, of uhiih fla- 



