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° ANGELICA SYLVESTRIS. ©" ° WILD ANGELICA” 
SYNONYMA. Angelica sylvestris. Pharm. Edinb. Ger. Emac.. 
999. Raii. Hist. 437. Synop. 208. Park. Theat. 940. Ange-- 
lica sylvestris major. Bauh. Pin. 155. A. sylvestris. Huds. Flor.. 
Ang. 118. Withering. Bot. Arr. 290. Haller. Stirp. Helv. 
n. 806. Smith Flor. Brit. 311. 
Sp. Ch. A. foliolis equalibus ovato-lanceolatis serratis. 
ROOT perennial, long, thick, tapering, branched,. externally 
brown, internally white. Stalk thick, hollow, jointed, scored, 
branched, round, smooth, several feet in height. Leaves pinnated, 
composed of ovate serrated equal pinna, with an odd one at the: 
end. Leaf-stalks channelled on the upper surface, standing upon 
a large membranous sheath inclosing the stem. Flowers white, in 
large umbels, which are convex, and placed on long stalks arising 
from the sheaths of the leaf-stalks. General involucrum most 
commonly wanting, or sometimes composed of small slender leaves. 
Partial involucrum, consisting of from five to twelve permanent 
narrow pointed unequal leaves. Corolla of five petals, which are 
‘nearly equal, ovate, pointed, bent inwards. Filaments five, spread- 
ing, longer than the petals. Anthere.roundish. Germen beneath. 
Styles two, bent downwards. Stigmata blunt. Fruit furnished 
with four winged appendages, and on each side three strie: Seeds 
two, egg-shaped, plano-convex, with a membranaceous ‘border, 
convex side, marked with three ridges. 
It grows in marshy woods and hedges, flowering in June and July. 
As the root of this species of Angelica is still retained in the: 
catalogue of the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh Pharmacopeeia, 
we have judged it expedient to present a figure of the plant; and it 
is only in compliance with this authority that we have been induced 
to do so: for the garden Angelica, of which a oe is given in the 
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