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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Fig. 376. Fool's Parsley (Acthusa Cynapium). Flowering branch. Sup- 

 posed to be poisonous to animals. (After Faguet.) 



5. Angelica L. Angelica 



Stout perennial herbs with ternately or pinnately compound leaves in large 

 ample umbels with white or greenish flowers ; involucre none or of few small 

 bracts ; calyx teeth wanting ; fruit strongly flattened with prominent lateral 

 wings; oil tubes solitary or several; the 30 or more species found chiefly in the 

 northern hemisphere and New Zealand. 



Angelica atropurpurea L. Great Angelica 

 A stout smooth perennial from 3-5 feet high ; large ample, ternately divided 



