PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Angelica. 



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not a single plant of the Ligusticum was to be found. Dr. Hall 

 favoured me with his company on this occasion, and we searched 

 the surrounding fields and hedge rows to no purpose. At length, 

 in a field about half a mile further from Bodmin, on ground slop- 

 ing into a valley facing to the west, and nearly at the bottom of 

 the slope, we discovered a few plants amongst the furze. It 

 therefore appears probable that it will soon be lost again, owing 

 to cattle being so fond of it as to eat it down wherever they can 

 get at it, for the few plants we found were so protected by 

 thorns and briars as to be inaccessible to cattle. Mr. Stack- 

 house informs me that he has since found it plentifully at Hun<» 

 gerill, in the parish of Cardynham, near Bodmin, on the sloping 

 side of a barren hill. I do not find (continues Mr. Stackhouse) 

 the radical leaves in threes, as represented in Ray's Synopsis, but 

 rather twice ternate, as expressed in Smith's Icones pictse, fasc. 

 ii. I think the circumstance of having leaves of two distinct 

 shapes is not that the one are radical and the other not, for both 

 arise from the crown of the root. The spindle-shaped root is 

 constant and very distinctive. In Dr. Smith's figure, the left 

 hand leaf in the plate admirably describes the difference of the 

 radical leaf from the others, as it consits in the form of the lobes, 

 and the smaller number of segments, not in a trifoliate-leaf as in 



Ray's figure. From the woody quality of the root I suspect it 

 to be perennial. 



* 1 , 



ANGE'LICA. Bloss. equal, petals bent inwards: 



styles reflected : fruit roundish. 



A. Leaves winged; leafits unequally serrated, the odd one Archange'- 



at the end 3-lobed. lica. 



399-DoJ, 



318. l-Gcr.em. 999. \-Matth. 81- 

 H. ox. ix. 3, row 2. 1-G<rr. 84(i.l. 



The serratures on the leafits in the A. sylvestris are fine, re- 



Jjular, and the leafits otherwise entire, but in this species the 

 eafits are broader and with more of a lopped appearance at the 

 base, the serratures much larger, very irregular, and some of them 

 cleft into 3 segments. In some specimens the Involueellums are 

 much longer than the Umbellules. 



[Broadmoore, about 7 miles N. W. from Birmingham.] 



P. Sepf . 



In a cultivated state this is supposed to be the Garden Ange- 

 lica which is used in some distilled waters, and candied by the 

 Confectioners. It is figured in Blackw. 496, Knipb 4, and 

 Trag. 422; also wretchedly done in FL dan. 2()6. 



A. Leafits equals egg- spear- shaped, serrated. 



sylves'tris. 



