MEUM. 



plant. 355. Fee cours. ii. 203. ./Ethusa Meum L. Ligusticum 

 capillaceum Lam. Ligusticum Meum Crantz. Meov aBa/Axv-r^ov, 

 Dioscorid. Mountainous pastures all over Europe. 



Leaves supra-decompound with capillary segments. Stem some- 

 what branched and leafy. Involucre with hardly more than 1 bract ; 

 involucels scarcely extending more than half way round the umbel. 

 The roots are fusiform, and about as thick as the finger, with numerous 

 transverse close wrinkles. They are aromatic and sweet, something like 

 carrot, and contain a small quantity of essential oil. They form an 

 ingredient in Venice treacle. (Radix Mei Officm.) 



93. M. Mutellina Gcertn. Carp. i. t. 23. DC. prodr. iv. 162. 

 Phellandrium Mutellina Linn. sp. plant. 366. Jacq. Jl. austr. 

 t. 56. ^Ethusa Mutellina Lam. CEnanthe purpurea Lam. Sub- 

 alpine meadows in the middle of Europe. 



Leaves twice or thrice pinnated ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Stem nearly naked and simple. Involucre none ; leaflets of involucels 

 lanceolate. Used like the last. (Radix Muteltinae Officin.) 



ANGELICA. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals lanceolate, entire, acuminated, with 

 the point straight or curved inwards. Fruit compressed at the 

 back, with a central raphe, 2-winged on each side. Half-fruits 

 with 3 filiform dorsal elevated ridges, the 2 laterals dilated into 

 a membranous wing. Channels with single vittae. Peren- 

 nials or biennials. Leaves bipinnated. Umbels terminal. Invo- 

 lucre none, or few-leaved; involucel many-leaved. Flowers white. 



94. A. nemorosa Tenore sylloge 561. Bracala Neapol. 

 Valleys, damp woods and low watery places in the kingdom of 

 Naples. 



Stem at the upper part and peduncles downy. Leaves 3-pinnate ; 

 segments ovate short bluntish serrated decurrent at base. Involucre 

 none. Half-fruits elliptical ; the wings as broad as the dorsal crested 

 ridges. Smell of the fruit hircine ; root acrid. The root is reckoned 

 by the Neapolitans one of their best remedies against the itch. 



ARCHANGELICA. 



Calyx with 5 short teeth. Half-fruits with thick keeled ridges. 

 Seed not adhering to the integument, covered all over with nu- 

 merous vittae. Otherwise the same as Angelica. 



95. A officinalis Koch. umb. 98. f. 17. 19. DC. prodr. iv. 

 169. Nees'and Eberm.pl. med. 279. 280. handb.in. 60. S. andC. 

 ii. t. 83. Smith Eng.fl. ii. 80. Angelica Archangelica Linn, 

 sp. 360. Eng. Bot. t. 2561. Watery places in the northern 

 parts of Europe. 



Root large, fleshy, branched, resinous, pungently aromatic. Stem 

 erect, 4 or 5 feet high, and from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, leafy, 

 branched in the upper part, striated, polished, a little glaucous. The 

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