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FERNLEAF LOVEROOT 



Ligus'ticum filici'num 



Flowers small, white, borne on 

 short stalks (up to % in. long) 

 in numerous small "umb'rella- 

 shaped clusters (umbellets) ; 

 umbellets borne on stalks (rays) 

 up to 2 in. long, forming a com- 

 plex umbrella-shaped cluster 

 1 (umbel); umbels hairless, 

 few- bracted or bractless 



Leaves large, mostly basal, 

 finely dissected; ultimate divi- 

 sions narrowly linear to linear- 

 Jance-shaped 



Stems 12 to 40 in. high, 

 smooth, hollow, more or less 

 leafy 



"Seeds" (mericarps) in pairs 

 but separating when ripe, nar- 

 rowly oblong, about Yt in. long, 

 not strongly flattened, hairless, 



/with prominent, equal, some- 

 what winged ribs, tipped with 

 distinct conical knobs (stylo- 

 podia) 





Taproot large, deep-set, _ aro- 

 matic, usually crowned with a 

 coarse fibrous tuft of remains of 

 old leafstalks 



