ANGELICA ARCHANGELICA. “ORD. V. Conglomerate. 87 
THE root is biennial, long, thick, fleshy, and furnished with 
numerous fibres: the stalk is thick, strong, jointed, channelled, 
wound, of a purplish colour, rises to the height of six or eight feet, 
and sends off several branches, which terminate in large umbels: 
- ithe leaves are pinnated, large, numerous, consisting of several 
pairs of oval, serrated, pointed, veined, irregular shaped lobes or 
pinne, ‘terminated by an odd one: the flowers grow in large 
terminal umbels, which are round, and composed of many radii: 
the corolla is small, white, and divided into five petals, which 
have their points turned inwards: the general involucrum consists 
of three or five narrow pointed leaves, the partial involucrum of 
five, and the calyx is cut into five minute segments; the five 
stamina are longer than the petals, spreading, and furnished with 
roundish anthere; the germen is placed below the corolla, and 
supports two refiected styles, crowned with obtuse stigmata: the 
seeds are two, oval, flat on one side, convex on the other, and 
marked with three furrows.—It is a native_of Lapland, * and flowers 
an June and August. 
Angelica, as a native of a northern climate, seems ‘ have been 
unknown to the ancients. It has been cultivated in Britain more 
than two centuries,” and its medical character * has rendered it 
of sufficient importance to be very generally propagated by the 
English gardener.—The roots of Angelica have a fragrant agreeable 
smell, and a bitterish pungent taste: on being chewed they are 
first sweetish, afterwards acrid, and leave a glowing heat in the 
mouth and fauces, which continues for some time. The stalk, 
leaves, and seeds, which are also directed in the Pharmacopezias, 
appear to possess the same qualities, though in an inferior degree. 
It is said that “on wounding the fresh root early in the spring, it 
a << Ubique per omnes alpes Lapponia juxta rivulos vulgaris est.” Lin. Flor. 
Lap. p. 67 
* Cultivated in 1568. Turn. herb. part. 3. p. 5. Vide Hort. Kew. 
© We may also add its use in confectionary. 
