154: UMBELLIFER<. (PAKSLEY FAMILY.) 



ovate-oblong, often blunt, serrate; involucets as long as tbe niabellets; pedun 

 eles and fruit dou-uy, broadly winyed. 1J. (Angelica triquinata, Nutt.) Dry 

 open woods, New York to Michigan, and southward. July. Flowers white. 



2. A. ;ilro|Hir>m< :i, Hoffm. (GREAT ANGELICA.) Smooth; stem 

 dark purple, very stunt (4 -6 high), hollow; leaves 2-3-ternntely compound ; 

 the leaflets pinnate, 5-7, sharply cut serrate, acute, pale beneath ; petioles much 

 inflated; involucels very short; fruit smooth, winged. 1|. (Angelica triquinata, 

 J licit ..-.) Low river-banks, N. England to Penn., Wisconsin, and northward. 

 June. Flowers greenish-white. Plant strong-scented ; a popular aromatic. 



3. A. peregrilia, Nutt. Stem a little downy at the summit (1- 3 

 high) ; leaves 2 - 3-tcrnately divided, the leaflets ovate, acute, cut-serrate, 

 glabrous ; involucels about as long as the umbellets ; fruit oblong with 5 thick 

 and corky wing-like ribs to each carpel, the marginal ones little broader than the 

 others. Ij. Rocky coast of Massachusetts Bay and northward. July. 

 Flowers greenish-white. Plant little aromatic. Fruit so thick and so equally 

 ribbed, rather than winged, that it might be taken for a Ligusticum. Perhaps it 

 is the Angelica lucida, L. 



13. CONIOSELitflTM, Fischer. HEMLOCK PARSLEY. 



Calyx -teeth obsolete. Fruit oval ; the carpels convex-flattish and narrowly 

 3-winged on the back, and each more broadly winged at the margins : oil-tubes 

 in the substance of the pericarp, 1 -3 in each of the intervals, and several on the 

 inner face. Smooth herbs, with finely 2-3-pinnatcly compound thin leaves, 

 inflated petioles, and white flowers. Involucre scarcely any : leaflets of the 

 involucels awl-shaped. (Name compounded of Conium, the Hemlock, and 

 Selinum, Milk-Parsley, from its resemblance to these two genera.) 



1. C. Caimclense, Torr. & Gr. Leaflets pinnatifid; fruit longer than 

 the pedicels. 1J. Swamps, Vermont to Wisconsin northward, and southward 

 in the Alleghanies. Aug. Herbage resembling the Poison Hemlock. 



14. JETHtfSA, L. FOOL'S PARSLEY. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose ; the carpels each with 5 thick 

 sharply-keeled ridges : intervals with single oil-tubes. Annual, poisonous 

 herbs, with 2 - 3-ternately compound and many-cleft leaves, the divisions pin- 

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



1. JE. CYNAPIUM, L. Divisions of the leaves wedge-lanceolate ; involucre 

 none ; involucels 3-leaved, long and narrow. About cultivated grounds, New 

 England, c. July. A fetid, poisonous herb, with much the aspect of Poison 

 Hemlock, but with dark-green foliage, long hanging involucels, and unspotted 

 stem. (Adv. from Eu.) 



15. L-IGIISTICUM, L. LOVAGE. 



Calyx-teeth small or minute. Fruit elliptical, round on the cross-section, or 

 slightly flattened on the sides ; the enrpels each with 5 sharp and projecting or 

 narrowly winged ridges: intervals and inner fare with many oil-tubes. Peren- 



