PLex.caL 45. UMBELLIFERiE. 292. Ligustic. 517 



Ligusiicum Scoticum. Scotch lavage. 



Leaves biternate ; leaflets nearly rhomboid, deeply ser- 

 rated. 



Ligusticum Scoticum apii folio, Raii Syn, 214, 1. 

 Ligusticum Scoticum, Lin. S. P. 359. 

 Angelica Scotica, Lamarck Encycl Mtth. 1, 173. 

 Ligusticum biternatum, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1194. 

 Scotch parsley. 



Sea-shore; perennial; July. 



Stem slightly branched at top, bald ; upper leaves often 

 ternate; lobes rather fleshy, bald; stipules membranaceous; 

 umlells many-rayed, terminal. — Root carminative; leaves 

 used as a salad or potherb, and an infusion of the leaves as 

 a purgative for calves. 



XXVIIL 293. PSEUDOSPERMUM. Sprengel. 



Cornwall-saxifrage. 

 Involucnim 4 or 8-leaved, unequal, 2 outer longest ; in- 

 volucella 3 to 5-leaved ; calyx 5-toothed, teeth deltoid ; pe- 

 tals nearly equal, oblong, keeled, naked; lacinule long, 

 dilated, blunt ; fruit ovate, oblong, crowned ; akenium ovate, 

 5-ribbed; ribs blunt; spermapodium bristlelike, 2-cut. — 

 Umlells many-rayed. 



Pseudosperm. commutatum. Changed Cornwall-saxifrage. 

 Leaves ternate; root-leaflets S-parted; stem-leaflets lan- 

 ceolate, not cut. 



~ Smyrnium tenuifolium, nostras, Raii Syn. 209, 1. 

 Ligusticum alteruin Belgarum, Park. 906, 

 Ligusticum Cornubiense, Lin. S. P. 359. 

 Danaa aquilegifolia, Allioni Pedem. 1392. 

 Ligusticum aquilfgifolium, Willd. S. P. 1425. 

 Sison sylvaticum, Brotero P/iyt. Lusit. 17. 

 Smyrnium nudicaule, Marsch Fl. Taur. Cauc. 1 , 238. 



Hedges and woods ; shrubby ; July. 



Root fusiform ; stem 3 feet high ; root-leaves few, petioled, 

 lobes wedgeshape, narrow ; ' stem-leaves 0, or only 1 or 2 ; 

 umhells many-rayed ; involucella lanceolate, persisting ; 

 flowers white. 



XXIX. 294.LIBANOTIS.Theophrastus. Stone-parsley. 

 Ivvolucriim and involucella many-leayed, deflexed; calyx 

 S-toothed ; petals nearly equal, reverse ovate, heartshape ; 

 lacinule inflected, rather long, lanceolate, pointed ; frtiit 

 oblong, crowned ; akenium oblong, nearly cylindrical, hir- 

 sute, tomentose, 5-ribbed ; spermapodium bristlelike. . 



