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pound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow bractlets, and white 

 flowers in large many-rayed umbels. (Named from the country Liguria, where 

 the officinal Lovage of the gardens abounds.) 



1. L. actseif61ium, Michx. (NONDO. ANGELICO.) Stem sfrout, branched 

 above (2 - 6 high) ; leaves very large, 3 - 4-ternate ; leaflets broadly oblong (2 - 

 5' long), coarsely serrate ; fruit ovate (2 - 3" long) ; seed with angled back. 

 Rich ground, S. Penn. to Ky., southward to the Gulf. 



2. L. Sc6ticum, L. (SCOTCH LOVAGE.) Stem simple (1-2 high); 

 leaves biternate; leaflets ovate (1 -2' long), coarsely toothed ; fruit narrowly ob- 

 long (4 - 5" long) ; seed with round back. Salt marshes, along the coast from 

 E Conn, northward. Aug. (Eu.) 



13. -2ETHUSA, L. FOOL'S PARSLEY. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose, slightly flattened dorsally ; carpel 

 with 5 thick sharp ribs ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. 

 Poisonous annuals, with 2 - 3-ternately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, 

 ultimate segments small and many cleft, no involucre, long narrow involucels, 

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



JE. C YNAPIUM, L. A fetid, poisonous European herb, in cultivated grounds, 

 from N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn. June - Aug. 



14. COELOPLEURUM, Ledeb. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose to oblong, with very prominent nearly 

 equal thick corky ribs (none of them winged) ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals 

 and under the ribs, 2 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. Stout 

 glabrous (or inflorescence puberulent) sea-coast perennial, with 2-3-ternate 

 leaves on very large inflated petioles, few leaved deciduous involucre, involu- 

 cels of numerous small linear-lanceolate bractlets (rarely conspicuous or even 

 leaf-like), and greenish-white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From /coTAos, 

 hollow, and ir\vpov, a rib.) 



1. C. Gmdlini, Ledeb. Stem 1-3 high; leaflets ovate, irregularly cut- 

 serrate (2-2' long); fruit 2-3$" long. (Archangelica Gmelini, DC.)-^ 

 Rocky coasts, Mass, to Greenland. 



15. CBANTZIA, Nutt. 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit globose or slightly flattened laterally ; dorsal ribfc 

 filiform, the lateral thick and corky ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on 

 the commissure. Small perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with 

 hollow cylindrical or awl-shaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, simple few- 

 flowered umbels, and white flowers. (Named for Prof. Henry John Crantz, 

 an Austrian botanist of the 18th century.) 



1. C. lineata, Nutt. Leaves very obtuse, 1-3' long, 1-2" broad; fruit 

 1" long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin. In brackish marshes 

 along the coast, from Mass, to Miss. July. Very widely distributed. 



16. FGENICULUM, Adans. FENNEL. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, glabrous, with prominent ribs and soli- 

 tary oil-tubes. Stout glabrous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into 



