ANGELICA. 



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minal one ; the footstalks are membranous at the base, and 

 much dilated. The flowers are numerous, of a greenish-white 

 colour, and arranged in large, nearly spherical, many-rayed 

 umbels. The calyx is scarcely distinguishable. The petals are 

 five, nearly equal, oblong-lanceolate, and indexed at the point. 

 The stamens are five, spreading, and longer than the petals. 

 The germen is inferior, ovate, furrowed ; with two short styles, 

 at first erect, afterwards recurved. The fruit is somewhat 

 compressed, and furnished with two broad wings ; the carpels 

 are marked with three acute ridges at the back, the lateral ones 

 vanishing into the wings of the fruit. The seed is solitary in 

 the carpel, free, ovate and pointed. Plate III., fig. 1, (a) the 

 ripe fruit. 



The Angelica grows wild in Lapland, Norway, Sweden, 

 Austria, Silesia, on the Alps and Pyrenees, and is especially 

 abundant on the banks of rivers in those countries. It was 

 cultivated in the English garden prior to the year 1568, and 

 is now completely naturalized, having been found at Broad- 

 moore, near Birmingham, and in marshy ground adjacent to the 

 Thames, about Woolwich. It flowers from June to September. 



This plant has received its imposing name from angelicus, on 

 account of its medicinal virtues, especially from its being con- 

 sidered efficacious against pestilential diseases. It is called 

 Archangelica, from ci^yj,, j^ire-eminence, because of its superiority 

 to the other species of the genus. 



Culture — " It delights to grow in a very moist soil. The seeds should 

 be sown soon after they are ripe, for if they are kept until the spring, 

 scarcely one in forty will grow. When the plants are advanced about four 

 inches in height, transplant them into rows, from two to three feet apart. 

 They thrive best upon the sides of ditches or pools of water. The second 

 year after sowing they will shoot up to flower, therefore, if you wish to 

 continue their roots, you should cut down the stems in May, which will 

 occasion their putting out heads from the sides of the root, and by this 

 means they may be continued three or four year^. ^^Tien they are culti- 

 vated for seed, new plantations should be annually made to supply the place 

 of those which die, for when they are permitted to seed, they last but two 

 years. For candying, the young shoots and leaf-stalks are used, being cut 

 while they are young and tender, in May." — Miller. 



Qualities and general Uses. — The Angelica is one of the 

 few aromatics of European origin. Every part of the recent 

 plant, particularly the root, is fragrant and agreeable, with an 

 aroma somewhat resembling that of musk. The taste is sweetish 



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