ORD. VI. Umbellate, M41 
LIGUSTICUM LEVISTICUM. COMMON LOVAGE. 
SYNONYMA4. : Levisticum. Pharm. Edinb. Ligusticum vul- 
gare. Bauh. Pin. p. 157. Ligusticum vulgare, foliis apii. J. 
Bauh. iti. p. 122. Levisticum vulgare. Gerard. Emac. p. 1008. 
Park. Theat. p..936.  Raii: Hist. p. 437. Angelica montana 
perennis, Paludapii folio. Yourn. Inst. p. 313. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 346. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Fructus oblongus, 5-sulcatus utrinque. Corolle 
equales. Petalis inyolutis, integris. 
Sp. Ch. L. foliis multiplicibus: foliolis superne incisis, 
THE root is perennial, long, tapering, branched, externally 
brown, internally whitish: the stalk is erect, branched, smooth, 
striated, and rises five or six feet in height: the upper leaves are 
small, and irregularly cut into narrow elliptical segments; the 
lower leaves are large, doubly pinnated; pinnz indented, pointed, 
often lobed, and placed in pairs with an odd one at the top: the 
flowers are small, of a whitish yellow colour, and produced in 
umbels: the general and partial umbels are composed of nearly 
an equal number of radii, and each furnished with involucra, con- 
sisting of about seven simple ovate segments: all the flowers are 
fertile: the corolla consists of five petals, which are egg-shaped, 
and turned inwards: the five filaments are capillary, shorter than 
the corolla, and furnished with simple anthere: the germen is 
truncated at the top, upon which are placed two nectarious cor-. 
puscles, supporting two short styles, crowned with simple stigmata: 
the fruit is oblong, angular, furrowed, divisible into two seeds, which 
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