Pl.ex.caL 45. UMBELLIFER^. 296. Imperat. 519 



Imperatoria major. Great masterwort. 



Leaves ternate ; leaflets 3-lobed. 



Imperatoria, Ger. em. 1001, 1; Park. 942. 

 Imperatoria Osnuthiiim, Lin. S. P. 371. 

 Imperatoria major, Garid. Prov. 55. 

 Selinum Imperatoria, Stokes Dot, Mat. Med. 2, 72. 

 Bastard pellilory of Spain. 



Root tuberous; stem erect, nearly simple; umbells ter- 

 minal, many-rayed, smooth, flat. — Root acrid, acrimonious, 

 used as a sialogogue in rheumatic tooth-ache; recommended 

 internally in dropsy and dyspepsia ; an infusion in wine 

 used successfully in quartan agues when bark has failed. 



XXXII. 297. ANGELICA. Brunsfel. JVater-aiigelica. 

 Involucrum 0, or few-leaved ; involucella many-leaved ; 



jiowers uniform ; calyx ; petals equal, reverse ovate, 

 pointed, inflected, contracted ; fruit reverse ovate, 4<-angu- 

 lar, winged, ending with the reflected styles ; akenium re- 

 verse ovate, 3-ribbed ; ribs approximating, 4-vittated, edge 

 winged ; vittse growing to the inner membrane; commissure 

 flat, keeled, 2-vittated ; keel elevated, dilated in the middle, 

 covered with nearly marginal vitt^ ; spermapodium bristle- 

 like, capillary, 2-partcd. ^ 



Angelica sylvestris. Wild water'dngelica. 



Leaves bipinnate; leaflets ovate, equal, cut, acutely ser- 

 rated. 



Angelica sylvestris, Rati Si/n. 208,2; Ger. em. 991, 2 j Park. 940; 

 Lin. S. P.36]. 



Seliiuim Angelica, Roth Fl. Germ. 2, 358. 

 Seiinnm pui)escens, Moench Meth. SO. 

 Imperatoria sylvestris, Besser Fl. Gall. 1, 213. 

 TVitd angelica. 



Watery places ; perennial ; July. 



Stem 4 feet high, upright ; leaves rather glaucous ; nm- 

 hells hemispherical. 



XXXIII. 298. ARCHANGELICA. Tabernsemontanus. 



Angelica. 

 Involucrum scarcely any; involucella halved, many-cleaved ; 

 Jiowers diffbrm ; calyx small, 5-toothe(^ ; petals equal, ovate; 

 lacinule inflected, Sicnte', fruit ovate, turgid; akejiium 5-rib- 

 bed; ribs solid, stuffed, margined with a stiff wing; com- 

 missure flat, keeled ; keel many-vittated; vittse lateral, pa- 

 rallel, in the membranous endocarp. 



