154 TJMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



ovate-oblong, often blunt, serrate; involucels as long as the umbellets; pedun- 

 cles and fruit downy, broadly winged. 1J. (Angelica triquinata, Nutt.) — Dry 

 open woods, New York to Michigan, and southward. July. — Flowers white. 



2. A. ati'Ojmi'piirea, Hoffin. (Great Angelica.) Smooth; stem 

 dark purple, very stout (4° -6° high), hollow; leaves 2 -3-ternately compound ; 

 the leaflets pinnate, 5-7, sharply cut serrate, acute, pale beneath ; petioles much 

 inflated; involucels very short; fruit smooth, winged. \ (Angelica triquinata, 

 Michx.) — Low river-banks, N. England to Penn., Wisconsin, and northward. 

 June. — Flowers greenish-white. Plant strong-scented; a popular aromatic. 



3. A. pcroafi'ina, Nutt. Stem a little downy at the summit (1°- 3° 

 high) ; leaves 2 - 3-ternately divided, the leaflets ovate, acute, cut-serrate, 

 glabrous ; involucels about as long as the umbellets ; fruit oblong with 5 thick 

 and corky winy-like ribs to each carpel, the marginal ones little broader than the 

 otheis. y. — Rocky coast of Massachusetts Bay and northward. July. — 

 Flowers greenish-white. Plant little aromatic. Fruit so thick and so equally 

 ribbed, rather than winged, that it might be taken for a Ligusticum. It is A 

 ( mclini, of N. W. America. 



13. CONI©SEL,&rVUM, Fischer. Hemlock Parsley. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oval ; the carpels convex-flattish and narrowly 

 S-winged on the back, and each more broadly winged at the margins : oil-tubes 

 in the substance of the pericarp, 1 - 3 in each of the intervals, and several on the 

 inner face. — Smooth herbs, with finely 2 - 3-pinnately compound thin leaves, 

 inflated petioles, and white flowers. Involucre scarcely any : leaflets of the 

 involucels awl-shaped. (Name compounded of Conium, the Hemlock, and 

 Sdinuvi, Milk-Parsley, from its resemblance to these two genera.) 



1. C. CaisatleilSC, Torr. & Gr. Leaflets pinnatiiid ; fruit longer than 

 the pedicels. \\. — Swamps, Vermont to Wisconsin northward, and southward 

 in the Alleghanies. Aug. — Herbage resembling the Poison Hemlock 



14. JETIIl)SA, L. Fool's Parsley. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose ; the carpels each with 5 thick 

 sharply-keeled ridges : intervals with single oil-tubes. — Annual, poisonous 

 herbs, with 2 - 3-ternately compound and many-cleft leaves, the divisions pin- 

 nate, and white flowers. (Name from a'tda, to burn, from the acrid taste.) 



1. JE, Cynapium, L. Divisions of the leaves wedge-lanceolate ; involucre 

 none ; involucels 3-leaved, long and narrow. — About cultivated grounds, New 

 England, &c. July. — A fetid, poisonous herb, with much the aspect of Poison 

 Hemlock, but with dark-green foliage, long hanging involucels, and unspotted 

 stem. (Adv. from Eu.) 



15. EIGIISTICXTM, L. Lovage. 



Calyx-teeth small or minute. Fruit elliptical, round on the cross-section, or 

 slightly flattened on the sides ; the carpels each with 5 sharp and projecting or 

 narrowly winged ridges : intervals and inner face with many oil-tubes. — Peren- 



