PENTAXDlilA— DIGYXIA. Anodic 



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

 is altogether an alpine plant. Professor Hooker mentions seve- 

 ral stations in Scotland, chiefly about antient residences, indi- 

 cating 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- 

 bratecl 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 ; up])cr less compound, on shorter stalks, 

 with a sheathing, membranous, sometimes jagged, dilatation at 

 the base. Leujhts 2 or 3 inches long, and broad in j)roportion, 

 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. Ft. 

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

 and reg-ular. 



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

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

 general hracteas the only diflerence between Impcratoria and Se- 

 llnum. Of these 5 plants, Selinum Chabrcei is, like other true 

 species of Selinum, so widely different in its pinnate, very nar- 

 row, leaves, short styles, Jiural receptacle, and ribs of the secd^ 

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

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

 seen Imperatoria angustifolia of Bellardi. Angelica lucida and 

 verticillaris of Linnaeus do indeed appear to be justly removed by 

 Professor iSprengel 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 nt 

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

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

 guisli this genus from Angelica. 



150. ANGELICA. Angelica. 



Linn. Gen. \3S. Juss. 222. Fl.Dr.'M]. Lam. t. \9S. Gcvrtn. t.S:>. 



Fl. all perfect, prolific, ami re«riilar. (\iL iidiic. Pet. 5, 

 c(iiial, lanceolate, flattish, with an inilexetl })()int ; their 

 base contracted. J')7tnn. llnvad-shapetl, spreading, longer 

 than the corolla. Aul/i. ronnilish. Crrrntt'n inferior, ovate, 

 strongly furrowed. S/i/lcs in the flower very short, erect, 

 broad and tnniid at the base; subse(juently elongated, 

 recurveil. S/i^mus capitate. Floral licn'/darlt' thin, wavVf 

 projecting a little bi-yond the bases of die styles as tlie 



