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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Fig. 376. Fool's Parsley (.Aethusa Cynaptiiin). Flowerini? branch. Siip- 

 posed to be poisonous to animals. (After Faguet.) 



5. Angelica h. Angelica 



Stout perennial herbs with tcrnately or pinnateh- compound leaves in large 

 ample umbels with white or greenish flowers ; involucre none or of few small 

 bracts; calyx teeth wanting; fruit strongly flattened with prominent lateral 

 wings ; oil tubes solitary or several ; the 30 or more species found chiefly in the 

 northern hemisphere and New Zealand. 



Angelica atropurpurdt L. Great Angelica 

 A stout smooth perennial from 3-5 feet hiyli ; large ample, tcrnately divided 



