PENTANDRIA—DIGYNIA. Liousticiim. 81 



to' 



Ger. Em. 1000, Cliis. Hist. v. 2. 195, and Bauh. Hist. v.3. p. 2. 

 143, which may very probably be this species. 

 The candied stalks are acceptable to most people, being, when 

 BO prepared, not too powerfully aromatic. Of the antipestilen- 

 tial virtues of the root, those vvho wish to be informed, will find 

 amusement, at least, in old Gerarde. 



2. A. si/lvestris. Wild Angelica. 

 Leaflets equal, ovate, serrated. 



A. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PL 361. Willd. y. 1 . 1 429. Ft. Br. 311. 



Engl. Bot. V. \6.t.\ 128. Woodv. suppl t. 265. Hook. Scot. 90. 



Raii Syn. 208. Ger. Em. 999./. Dod. Pempt. 3 1 8./. Trag. 



Hist. 422./. Fuchs. Hist.VIb.f. Matth. Valgr. v.2. i)]4.f. Ca- 



mer.Epit. 900./. 

 A. n. 806. Hall. Hist. i\ 1. 358. 

 A. sylvestris major. Bauh. Pin. 155. 

 A. palustris. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 17. 

 Water Angelica. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24. f. 10. 



In watery places, alder cars, and the margins of rivers, common. 



Perennial. Jnlij. 



Much smaller than the foregoing. Root large and fleshy. Stem 

 leafy, round , polished, often purple, with wide-spreading branches. 

 Leaves doubly pinnate, a little glaucous • leajiets ovate, or ovate- 

 lanceolate, sharply, often unequally, serrated, their ribs and veins 

 sometimes downy. Footstalks, of the stem-leaves especially, in- 

 flated like the last. Umbels convex, with numerous, downy, 

 general and partial rays. General bracteas very few, long and 

 narrow -, partial similar, but smaller and more numerous. Ft. 

 white, or more generally flesh-coloured. Styles purple. 



The flavour is more bitter, and less grateful, than the ^rchangelica, 

 but the virtues of both are similar. 



160. LIGUSTICUM. Lovage. 



Linn. Gen. 137. Juss. 222. Fl. Br. 309. Tourn. t. 171. Lam. 

 /. 198. Gcertn. t.So. 



Fl. all perfect, prolific, and regular. Cal. of 5 small, i)oint- 

 ed, erect, permanent leaves ; broad at the base. Pet. 5, 

 elliptical, ilatlish, with an inflcxed })oint; their base con- 

 tracted. Filani. thread-shaped, spreading, shorter than 

 the corolla. Ant/i. rountlish. Crcrm. oblong, abrupt, 

 moderately comjiressed, furrowed. Styles in the flower 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, erect, stout, angular, tumid 

 at the l)ase; subsecjuently a little elongated, spreading, 

 permanent. Sti<j[mas simple. Ft. Rccrpt. none. Fruit 

 elliptic-oblong, rather compresseil, crowned with the calyx 

 VOL, II. a 



