382 LIGUSTICUM. [CLASS V. ORDER 11. 



Habitat. — Chalky pasliues ; very rave. Gogmagog liill, Cambridge- 

 shire ; between St. Albans and Stony Stratford. — Hudson, 

 Perennial ; flowering in August. 



The whole plant has a bitter pungent taste, but is not applied to any 

 particular purpose. It is found of very variable sizes, and with the 

 leaves more or less deeply cut and divided. A variety is mentioned by 

 De Candolc not more than a foot high, with the stem clothed with 

 hair, and small and more divided. 



GENUS LXVI. LIG'USTICUM.— Linn. Lovage. 



GtN. Char. Calyx margin of live teeth, or obsolete. Petals obovate, 

 notched, with an inflexed point and very short claw. Fruit 

 roundish, or the sides slightly compressed. Carpels with five 

 sharp e(iual winged ridges, the lateral ones forming the margins. 

 Channels with many rittce. Alhiimen half round. General in- 

 volucre various, partial of many segments. — Named from Liguria, 

 in Italy, the native country of the old Ligusticum Leiislicum. 

 1. L. Sco'ticum, Linn. (Fig. 444.) Scottish Lovage. Stem round, 

 striated, slightly branched ; leaves twice ternate ; leaflets snbrhomboid 

 toothed, smooth ; general involucre of about six linear segments. 



English Botany, t. 1207. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 82. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 133. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 118 



Root tapering. Stem round, smooth, finely striated, slightly 

 branched above, solid. Leaves mostly radical, alternate, large, on 

 footstalks, with a dilated base, with purplish membranous edges some- 

 what sheathing the stem, thrice ternate, Icajlets large, somewhat 

 fleshy, of darkish green, smooth, not glossy, of a somewhat rhomboid 

 shape, cut deep and som&what irregularly serrated or toothed, finely 

 netted with veins on the under side, the terminal leaflet mostly three 

 cleft, and sometimes the lateral ones also. Umbels terminal, large, the 

 general of numerous nearly C(inal angular rat/s, the partial also nu- 

 merous, angular, as long as the fruit. General involucre of about six 

 narrow linear ribbed spreading segments, the partial of numerous 

 linear ones. Flowers numerous, white or greenish, sometimes pink. 

 Cah/x margin of five lanceolate teeth. Petals equal, obovate, notched 

 with a small inflexed point, narrowed at the base into a short claw, 

 and .slightly rolled inwards. Stamens on slender incurved filaments, 

 with ovate reddish anthers. Sti/les short. Stigmas small, obtuse. 

 Dish fle.shy, convex. Fruit large, elliptical, roundish on a transverse 

 section, or the sides slightly compressed. Carpels with five equal 

 sharp winged ridges. Channels smooth, with about six slender simple 

 ritl(r. Albumen half round. 



