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AMA1IACEAE. 



VOL. IL 



i. Conioselinum chinense (L.) B.S.P. Hem lock- Parsley. Fig. 3126. 



Athamanta chinensis L. Sp. PI. 245. 1753. 

 Selinum canadense Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 165. 1803.. 

 C. ( ?) canadense T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 619. 1840. 

 Conioselinum chinense B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 22. 1888, 



Stem terete, striate, 2-5 high. Lower leaves 

 long-petioled, the upper nearly sessile, all decom- 

 pound into linear-oblong acutish segments; petioles 

 sheathing; umbels terminal and axillary, 2'-$' broad, 

 o-i6-rayed; rays rather slender, ii'-2i' long; pedi- 

 cels very slender, 2"-$" long; fruit prominently 

 ribbed, broadly oval, about 2" long. 



In cold swamps, Newfoundland to southern New York, 

 south in the mountains to North Carolina, west to On- 

 tario, Indiana and Minnesota. Ascends to 5000 ft. in 

 North Carolina. Aug.-Sept. 



Conioselinum pumilum Rose, of Labrador, is a smaller plant, with umbel-rays only 6"-9" long, 



19. ANGELICA L. Sp. PI. 250. 1753. 

 [ARCHANGELICA Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 166. 1814.] 



Tall erect perennial branching herbs, with compound leaves and large terminal umbels 

 of white flowers (in our species). Involucre none, or of a few small bracts. Involucels of 

 several small bracts, or sometimes wanting. Calyx-teeth obsolete or small. Petals with an 

 inflexed tip. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit ovate or oval, dorsally compressed, pubescent or 

 glabrous. Dorsal and intermediate ribs prominent, approximate, the lateral ones broadly 

 w r inged. Oil-tubes solitary, several or numerous in the intervals, 2-10 on the commissural 

 side. Seed-face flat or somewhat concave. [Named for its supposed healing virtues.] 



About 40 species, natives of the northern hemisphere and New Zealand. Besides the follow- 

 ing, some 18 others occur in the southern and western parts of North America. Type species: 

 Angelica Archangelica L. 



Umbels glabrous, or nearly so ; leaf-segments acute or acutish. 



Oil-tubes i (rarely 2-3) in the intervals ; wings broader than the carpels. i. A. Curtisii. 



Oil-tubes numerous and contiguous ; wings narrower than the carpels. 2. A. atropurpurea. 



Umbels densely tomentose ; leaf-segments obtuse. 3. A. villosa. 



i. Angelica Curtisii Buckl. Curtis' 

 Angelica. Fig. 3127. 



A. Curlisii Buckl. Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 173. 1843. 



Glabrous, or the umbels and upper part of 

 the stem slightly pubescent, 2-3i high. 

 Leaves biternate, the divisions quinate or 

 pinnate, the lower long-stalked, the upper 

 mostly reduced to inflated petioles; segments 

 rather thin, sometimes slightly pubescent on 

 the veins beneath, ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 sharply and irregularly dentate or incised, 

 2'-4' long; umbels 3'-6' broad, o-25-rayed; 

 rays rather stout, ii'~3' long; pedicels slender, 

 4"-6" long, fruit oval, glabrous, 2"-$" long, 

 emarginate at the base, the lateral wings 

 broader than the carpel ; oil-tubes solitary or 

 sometimes 2 or 3 in the intervals ; seed adher- 

 ent to the pericarp. 



In woods, central Pennsylvania, south along the 

 Alleghanies to North Carolina, where it ascends to 

 6400 ft., and to Georgia. Aug.-Sept. 



