80 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Anoelica, 



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fruit advances to maturity. Fruit elliptical, slightly com- 

 pressed, bordered, crowned with thej^. rccept. and spread- 

 ing styles. Seeds convex and oblong, with 3 elevated, lon- 

 gitudinal, dorsal wings, a little distant from their lateral 

 flat border, which scarcely exceeds the wings in breadth; 

 interstices more or less wrinkled. 

 Large, herbaceous, aromatic and wholesome plants, with 

 round, hollow stems ; repeatedly compound, pinnate, very 

 large, serrated leaves ; and terminal, many-rayed umbels. 

 General hracteas few or none ; 'partial numerous ; all 

 linear and narrow, though the latter occasionally become 

 leafy and serrated. Fl. greenish, or white, numerous, 

 rather small. 



*1. A. ArchangeUca. Garden Angelica. 

 Terminal leaflet lobed. 



A. Archangelica. Linn. Sp.PL360. Willd.v. 1. 1428. Fl.Br.^U. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 36. t. 2561. M^ith. 297. IVoodv.Med. Bot. t. 50. 

 Winch Guide V. 1. 27. 



A. n. 807. Hall. Hist.v. 1.358. 



A. sativa. Bauh. Pin. 155. Bank. Hist, v. 3. p. 2. 140./. Ger. 

 Em, 999./. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 208. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 513./ 

 Fuchs.Hist.\2^.f. 



Angelica. Biv. Pentap. In: M 5. Pet. H. Bril. t. 24. f, 9. Lob, 

 Ic. 698./ Camer.Epit. 899. f. Trag. Hist. 421. f. 



A. major. Dod. Pempt. 318./ 



In watery places, rare, apparently a naturalized plant. 



At Broadmoore, about 7 miles north-west from Birmingham. With. 

 About the Tower of London, and on the banks of ditches, fre- 

 quent. Doody. In marshes, among reeds, by the side of the 

 Thames, between Woolwich and Plumstead, very abundantly. 

 Mr. Girard. In the county of Durham. Mr. W. Backhouse. 



Biennial. June — September. 



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 foliage, stalks, and even the flowers, are all of a bright green. 

 Leaves 2 or 3 feet wide, ternate, then pinnate, very smooth j 

 le aflets ovate-lanceolate, acute, cut and sharply serrated, partly 

 decurrent , the odd one deeply 3-lobed. Footstalks, at the base, 

 excessively dilated and tumid, pale and rather membranous, with 

 many ribs . Umbels, both general and partial, nearly globose, 

 the rays of both very n uraerous, spreading, downy. General 

 Bracteas few, linear, deciduous, often wanting ; partial about 8, 

 linear-lanceolate, short; occasionally enlarged, leafy, and notch- 

 ed, as in the figure named Archangelica, in Dod. Pempt. 318, 



