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pound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow bractlets, and white 

 flowers in large many-rayed umbels. (Named from the country Liguria, \vhere 

 the officinal Lorage of the gardens abounds.) 



1. L. actseifblium, Michx. (NONUO. ANGELICO.) Stem stout, branched 

 above (2-6 high) ; leaves very large, 3 4-ternate ; leaflets broadly oblong (2- 

 5' lonij), coarsely serrate ; fruit ovate (2-3" long); seed with angled back. 

 Kich ground, S. Penn. to Ky., southward to the Gulf. 



2. L. Scoticum, L. (SCOTCH LOVAGE.) Stem simple (1-2 high); 

 leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate (1 2' long), coarselij toothed ; fruit narrowly ob- 

 long (4 - 5" long) ; seed with round back. Salt marshes, along the coast from 

 E. Conn, northward. Aug. (Eu.) 



13. M T H IT S A, L. FOOL'S PARSLEY. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose, slightly flattened dorsallv ; carpel 

 with 5 thick sharp ribs ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. 

 Poisonous annuals, with 2-3-teruately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, 

 ultimate segments small and many cleft, no involucre, long narrow involucels, 

 and white flowers. (Name from aWw, to burn, from the acrid taste.) 



JE. CYNAPIUM, L. A fetid, poisonous European herb, in cultivated grounds, 

 from N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn. June- Aug. 



14. CCELOPLEITRUM, Ledeb. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose to oblong, with very prominent nearly 

 equal thick corky ribs (none of them winged) ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals 

 and under the ribs, 2 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. Stout 

 glabrous (or inflorescence puberuleut) sea-coast perennial, with 2 - 3-ternate 

 leaves on very large inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involu- 

 cels of numerous small linear-lanceolate bractlets (rarely conspicuous or even 

 leaf-like), and greenish-white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From Ko?Aoy, 

 holloic, and ir\fvpdv, a rib.) 



1. C. Gmelini, Ledeb. Stem 1 - 3 high ; leaflets ovate, irregularly cut- 

 serrate (2-2-i' long); fruit 2-3" long. (Archangelica Gmelini, DC.) 

 Rocky coasts, Mass, to Greenland. 



15. CRANTZIA, Nutt. 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit globose or slightly flattened laterally ; dorsal ribs 

 filiform, the lateral thick and corky ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on 

 the commissure. Small perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with 

 hollow cylindrical or awl-shaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, simple few- 

 flowered umbels, and white flowers. (Named for Prof. Henry John Crantz, 

 an Austrian botanist of the 18th century.) 



1. C. lineata, Nutt. Leaves very obtuse, 1-3' long, 1-2" broad; fruit 

 1" long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin. In brackisli marshes 

 along the coast, from Mass, to Miss. July. Very widely distributed. 



16. FOENICULUM, Adans. FENNEL. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, glabrous, with prominent ribs and soli- 

 tary oil-tubes. Stout glabrous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into 



