ORDER 63. UHBELLIFEILE. 381 



covered with vittae. It Petioles usually large, inflated and 3-parted. 

 Umbels perfect. Involucels many-leaved. 



* Involucels less than half the length of the pedicels ... No. 1 



* Involucels about as long as pedicels. Fruit broadly winged Nos. 2-^-4 



Fruit scarcely winged No. 8 



1 A. atropurptirea Hoffm. St. dark purple, furrowed ; petioles 3-parted, tho 



divisions quinate, Ifts. incisely toothed, odd leaflet of the terminal divisions rhom- 

 boidal, sessile, the others decurreut ; involucels of short, setaceous bracts. Among 

 the largest of the Uuibelliferae, well known for its aromatic properties, common in 

 fields and meadows, N. and W. States. St. 4 to* Gf high, 1 to 2i' in thickness, 

 smooth, hollow, glaucous. Petioles large, inflated, channeled on the upper side, 

 with inflated sheaths at base. Terminal 1ft. sometimes 3-lobed. Umbels spheri- 

 cal, G to 8' diam., mostly puberulent. Fr. 3'' long, winged. Jn. Us. greenish 

 white. (Angelica triquinata MX.) 



2 A. hirsuta Torr. & Gr. St. striate, the summit with the umbels tomentous-hir- 

 sute ; Ivs. bipinnately divided, the divisions quinate, S3gm. oblong, acutish, the 

 upper pair connate, but not decurrent at base. Dry woods, N. York to Car. St. 

 simple, erect, straight, 3 to 5f high. Lvs. on petioles from 6 to 10' long ; Ifts. 1 

 to 2' long, \ as wide, mostly ovate-oblong, often tapering at base. Umbels 3 or 

 4, on long, velvety peduncles, 2 to 4' broad ; rays unequal, spreading, densely 

 tomentous. Invol. 0. Involucels of 4 to 6 bracts, about as long as the rays. 



, JL, Aug. (Angelica MX.) 



3 A. officinilis LToffin. GARDES ANGELICA. St. smooth, round, striate; 

 Ivs. pinnately divided into lobate, subcordata, acutely serrate segments, the ter- 

 minal one 3-lobed; sheaths largo and saccate. Said to be native in Labrador. 

 Cultivated in gardens occasionally for tho sake of the stalks, which are to be 

 blanched and eaten as celery. \ (Angelica Linn.) 



4 A. dentata Chapman. Very slender, finely striate, with slender petioles ; lower 

 hs. first ternate, then ternate or quinate, with lance-ovate, coarsely and remotely 

 ttothed, veiny sogm., more or less confluent ; umbels few-rayed, with scarcely 

 aty involucre ; involucel 4 to G-leaved, about equaling the pedicels ; fr. broad- 

 ovU, broadly winged. Bainbridge, Ga. (Misses Keen), Quincy, Fla. (Chapman.) 

 Plait 2 to 3f high. Fr. Ij" long. JL, Aug. 



5 A. peregrina Nutt. St. striate, pubescent at summit; Ivs. ternately divided, 

 the Divisions quinate, segm. incisely serrate; umbel with many slender rays; in- 

 vol. ft; involucols of many Ifts., as long as tho umbellets; fr. with obtuse, sulequal, 

 scarcdy winged ribs. Sea coast, Me. and Mass. (Pickering.) 



12. EAITCUS, Tourn. CAUROT. (Aa/co$-, the ancient Greek name 

 of the carrot.) Calyx limb 5 -toothed ; petals emarginate, with an in- 

 flected point, the 2 outer often largest and deeply 2-cleft ; fruit oblong; 

 carpels with 5 primary, bristly ribs, and 4 secondary, the latter more 

 prominent, winged, and divided each into a single row of prickles, and 

 having single vittje beneath ; carpophore entire, free. (g) Invol. pin- 

 natifid. Ii.volucels of entire or 3-cleft bracts. Central fl. abortive. 



1 D. Carot* L. St. hispid; petioles veined beneath; Ivs. tripinnate or tripin- 

 natifld, the segm. linear, cuspidate-pointed; umbels dense, concave. The word 

 kar in Celtic signifies red, hence carrot. Naturalized in fields and by roadsides, 

 abundant in the Mid. States. Rt. fusiform. St. 2 to 3f high, branching. Lvs. 

 numerous, divided iu a thrice pinnatifid manner, pale green. Umbels large and 

 very compact, with white fls. blooming all the summer. Cultivation ' has pro- 

 duced several tarieties. Jl Sept. $ 



2 D. pusillus MX. St. slender, retrorsely scabrous-hispid ; Ifts. pubescent, bipin- 

 natifid, divisions deeply lobed with linear-oblong, merely acute segm. ; invol. bipin- 

 natifid; fr. muricato with barbed prickles. Dry soils, Savannah (Pond) to S. Car. 

 and La. Sts. 6 to 18' high. Umbels small, an inch or two broad, enveloped in 

 the many-cleft involucre. Sds. smaller than in the Carrot. 



