UMPELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 205 



pound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow bractlets, and white 

 flowers in large many-rayed umbels. (Named from the country Liguj'ia, -where 

 the officinal Lonuje of the gardens abounds.) 



1. L. actseifblium, Michx. (Xoxdo. Angelico.) Stem stout, branched 

 above (2-6° high); leaves very large, S-A-ternate; leaflets hroadlij oblong (2- 

 b' long), coarsely serrate ; fruit ovate (2-3" long); seed with angled back. — 

 Rich ground, S. Penn. to Ky., southward to the GuK. 



2. L. Scoticum, L. (Scotch Lovage.) Stem simple (1-2° high); 

 leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate {\ —2' long), coarsely toothed ; fruit narrowly ob- 

 long (4 - 5" long) ; seed with round back. — Salt marshes, along the coast from 

 E Conn, northward. Aug. (Eu.) 



13. iETHUSA, L. Fool's Parsley. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose, slightly flattened dorsally ; carpel 

 with 5 thick sharp ribs ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. 

 — Poisonous annuals, with 2 - .3-ternately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, 

 ultimate segments small and many cleft, no involucre, long narrow involucels, 

 and white flowers. (Name from aWo), to bum, from the acrid taste.) 



^. CynXpium, L. a fetid, poisonous European herb, in cultivated grounds, 

 from N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn. June- Aug. 



14. CCELOPLEURUM, Ledeb. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose to oblong, with very prominent nearly 

 equal thick corky ribs (none of them winged) ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals 

 and under the ribs, 2 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. — Stout 

 glabrous (or inflorescence puberulent) sea-coast perennial, with 2-3-ternate 

 leaves on very large inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involu- 

 cels of numerous small linear-lanceolate bractlets (rarely conspicuous or even 

 leaf-like), and greenish-white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From ko7\os, 

 hollow, and irX^vpov, a rib.) 



1. C. Gmelini, Ledeb. Stem l - 3° high ; leaflets ovate, irregularly cut- 

 serrate (2-2^' long); fruit 2-3^" loiig- (Archangelica Gmelini, DC.) — 

 Rocky coasts, Mass. to Greenland. 



15. CRANTZIA, Nutt. 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit globose or slightly flattened laterally ; dorsal ribs 

 filiform, the lateral thick and corky ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on 

 the commissure. — Small perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with 

 hollow cylindrical or awl-shaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, simple few- 

 flowered umbels, and white flowers. (Named for Prof. Henry John Crantz, 

 an Austrian botanist of the 1 8th century.) 



1. C. lineata, Nutt. Leaves very obtuse, 1-3' long, 1-2" broad; fruit 

 1" long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin. — In brackish marshes 

 along the coast, from Mass. to ^Nliss. July. Very widely distributed. 



16. FCENICULUM, Adans. Fennel. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, glabrous, with prominent ribs ami soli- 

 tary oil-tubes. — Stout glabrous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into 



