154 UMBELLIFERJE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



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

 cles and fruit downy, broadly winged. 1J. (Angelica triquinata, Nutt.) Dry 

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



2. A. atropurptirea, Hoffm. (GREAT ANGELICA.) Smooth; stem 

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

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

 inflated ; involucels very short ; fruit smooth, winged. 1J. (Ang61ica triquinata, 

 MicJtx.) 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 (l-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 wing-like 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. CONIOSELiNUni, Fischer. HEMLOCK PARSLET 



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

 S-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 

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



1. C. Canadense, 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. jE Til itS A, 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. ^E. CYNAPIUM, L. Divisions of the leaves wedge-lar ccolate ; 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,iaiTSTICUM, L. LOVAGE. 



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



