154 UMBELLIFER.E. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



ovate-oblong, often blunt, serrate; involucels as long as the umbellets; pedun- 

 cles and fruit downy, broadly winged. 1|. (Angelica triquinata, Null.) Dry 

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



2. A. atropiirpurca, Hoffin. (GREAT ANGELICA.) Smooth; stem 

 dark purple, very stout (4-G high), hollow; leaves 2-3-ternately compound; 

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

 and corky winy-tike ribs to each carpel, the marginal ones little broader than the 

 others. 1J. 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 Ligusticuui. It is A. 

 Gmelini, of N. W. America. 



13. CONIOSELTtlVUM, Fischer. HEMLOCK PARSLEY 



Calyx-f/jeth obsolete^ Fruit oval ; the carpels convex-flattish and narrowly 

 8-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-pinnately compound thin leaves, 

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

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

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



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

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

 in the Allcghanies. Aug. Herbage resembling the Poison Hemlock 



14. JETIITtiSA, L. FOOL'S PARSLEY. 



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

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

 -lerbs, with 2 - 3-tematcly compound and many-cleft leaves, the divisions pin- 

 oate, and white flowers. (Name from cu0a>, to burn, from the acrid taste.) 



i. JE CYNAPICM, L. Divisions of the leaves wcdge-larccolate ; involucre 

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

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

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

 <*tcm. (Adv. from Eu.) 



15. LICIISTICUUI, L. LOVAGB. 



Calyx-teeth small or minute. Fruit elliptical, round on the cro>s-section, or 

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

 narrowly winged ridges : intervals and inner face with many oil-fubes. Peren- 



