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nials, with aromatic roots and fruit, 2 - 3-ternately compound leaves, and white 

 flowers. (Named from the country Liguria, where the officinal Lot-aye of the 

 gardens, L. Levisticum, abounds.) 



1. Li. Scoticum, L. (Scotch Lovage.) Yen- smooth; stem (2 C 

 high) nearly simple; leaves 2-ternate; leaflets rhombic-ovate, coarsely toothed 

 or cut; leaflets of the involucre and involucels linear; calyx-teeth distinct; 

 fruit narrowly oblong. — Saltmarsb.es, from Rhode Island northward. Aug. — 

 Root acrid but aromatic. (Eu.) 



2. L.. actreifolilllll, Michx. (Noxdo. Angelico.) Smooth; stem 

 (3° -6° high) branched above; the numerous umbels forming a loose ami naked 

 Bomewhat whorled panicle, xho lateral ones mostly barren ; leaves 3-ternate; leaf- 

 lets broadly ovate, equally serrate, the end ones often 3-parted; calyx-teeth 

 minute; ribs of the short fruit wing-like. — Rich woods, Virginia, Kentucky, 

 and southward along the mountains. July, Aug. — Root large, with the strong 

 aromatic odor and taste of Angelica. (Michaux's habitat, " Banks of the St. 

 Lawrence," is probably a mistake.) 



16. THASPIUM, Nutt. Meadow-Parsnip. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete or short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, somewhat flattish or 

 contracted at the sides (the cross-section of each seed orbicular and somewhat 

 angled or 5-angular) ; the carpels each with 5 strong and equal ribs or wings, 

 the lateral ones marginal : oil-tubes single in each interval. — Perennial herbs, 

 with 1 - 2-ternately divided leaves (or the root-leaves simple), umbels with no 

 involucre, minute few-leaved involucels, and yellow or sometimes dark-purple 

 flowers. (Name a play upon Thapsia, a genus so called from the island of 

 Thapsus.) — I include in this genus Zizia, Koch, — because what is apparently 

 the same species has the fruit either ribbed or winged, — and retain the name 

 of Zizia for Z. Lntcgerrima, DC. 



* Stems loosely branched, 2° - 5° high, mostly pubescent on the joints : calyx short but 

 manifest : corolla light yellow : leaves all ternatt ly compound. 



1. T. l>arlfiiso<l<\ Nutt. Leaves 1 -3-ternate; leaflets urate or lance- 

 ovate and aaitt , mostly with a ivedge-shaped base, above deeply cut-serrate, often 

 2-3-cleft or parted, the terminal one long-stalked (1' -2' long); fruit oblong, 

 6-lQ-winged (3" long), some of the dorsal wings often narrow or obsolete. - 

 River-banks, W. New York to Wisconsin, and southward. July. 



2. T. piimat;fi<liini. Branchiate, umbels, &c. roughish-puberulent ; 

 leaves 1 -3-ternate ; leaflets 1 - 2-pinnatifid, the lobes linear or oblong ; fruit oblong, 

 narrowly 8- 10-winged (H' long), the intervals minutely scabrous. (Zizia pin- 

 natifida, Buckley. Thaspium Waited, Shuttlew., excl. syu. Walt.) — Barrens 

 of Kentucky (Shoii), and southward in the mountains. 



* * Stems somewhat branched; the whole plant glabrous : calyx-teeth obscure. 

 8. T. aureuill, Nutt. Leaves all 1 -2-ternately divided or parted (or rarely 

 some of the root-leaves simple and heart-shaped) ; the divisions or leaflets oblong- 

 lanceolate, very sharply cut-serrate, with a wedge-shaped entire base ; flowers deep 

 yellow ; fruit oblong-oval, with 10 winged ridges. Moist river-banks, &c, not 

 rare. June. — Leaves of a rather firm texture. 



