388 ANGELICA. LctASS V. ORDER n 



GENUS LXXI. ANGEL'ICA.— Linn, Angelica. 



Gen. Char. Calyx margin obsolete. Petals entire, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, with a straight or incurved point. Frtiit compressed at 

 the back, with two wings on each side. Carpels with three dorsal 

 filiform ridges, the two lateral ones dilated into broad membranous 

 wings. Channels with single vittcs. Albumen roundish, adhering 

 to the pericarp. General involucre scarcely any, partial of many 

 segments. — Named from its supposed angelic virtues. 

 1. A. sylvcs'tris, Linn. (Fig. 449.) Wild Angelica. Leaves bi- 

 pinnate ; leaflets ovate, acutely serrated, terminal one entire or trifid, 

 the lateral ones nearly sessile. 



English Botany, t. 1128. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 81. — Hooter, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 134. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 117. 



Root large, of fleshy spreading branches. Stem erect, round, 

 smooth, polished, sometimes finely downy at the base and extremity of 

 the branches, a pale glaucous green, or purplish, with wide spreading 

 branches, leafy, generally about three feet high, but sometimes we 

 have measured plants ten feet, and stout in proportion. Leaves alter- 

 nate, on long striated footstalks, much dilated at the base into a thin 

 striated membranous pouch, embracing the stem, two or three times 

 pinnated, the leaflets ovate, acutely serrated, and somewhat irregularly, 

 the terminal leaf frequently divided into three deep lobes, and the 

 lateral ones almost sessile, somewhat lobed at the base, of a pale 

 glaucous green beneath, quite smooth, except the ribs being slightly 

 hairy, finely reticulated with veins, the upper leaves very small, with 

 very large dilated smooth or downy sheaths to the footstalks. Umbels 

 numerous, terminal and lateral, large, or numerous, somewhat unequal 

 striated downy rays, the partial hemispherical, of numerous short 

 slender rays, unequal. General involucre mostly wanting, partial of 

 numerous slender linear downy spreading segments, about as long or 

 shorter than the rays. Flowers numerous, crowded, white or pinkish. 

 Calyx an obsolete waved border. Petals nearly equal, lanceolate, 

 entire, acuminated at the point, straight, or curved inwards, with a 

 mid-rib. Stameiis on long slender filaments, with ovate anthers. 

 Styles long, recurved, with capitate sligmas, the disk convex, fleshy. 

 Fruit rather small, ovate oblong, compressed at the back, smooth, 

 crowned with the elongated styles. Carpels with three elevated fili- 

 form ridges at the back, and the two lateral ones dilated into broad 

 membranous wings. Channels with single vitlec, pericarp separated 

 from the albumen, which is half round. 



Habitat.— RivcY sides, drains, and damp shady places; frequent. 

 Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



