144 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way clown 



Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 



Methinks he spenis no bigger than his head : 



The fishermen that walk upon the beach 



Appear like mice." 

 Samphire was in great reputation as a condiment in the time of Gerarde, who 

 wrote about the year 1597 thus : " The leaves kept in pickle and eaten in sallads 

 with oile and vinegar is a pleasant sauce for meat, wholsome for the stoppings of the 

 liver, milt, and kidnies. It is the pleasantest sauce, most familiar, and best agreeing 

 with man's body.' Culpepper describes it as " an herb of Jupiter," and much deplores 

 that it had then gone out of fashion, for " it is well known almost to everybody that 

 ill digestions and obstructions are the cause of most of the diseases which the frail 

 nature of man is subject to ; both of which might be remedied by a more frequent use 

 of this herb." 



Tbibe V.— ANGELICE.E. 



Creniocarp dor-sally compressed ; columella distinct ; mericarps 

 flattened from back to front, with 5 primary ridges, of which the 

 3 dorsal ones are filiform or slightly winged, the marginal ones 

 developed into a broad wing ; the wings of the two mericarps not 

 contiguous, so that the fruit has a double wing all round. Seed 

 Hat on the inner face. Flowers in regular compound umbels. 



GENUS XXV— A N G E L I C A. Linn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals lanceolate, acuminate, entire, with 

 the point erect or incurved. Cremocarp oval or oblong, much 

 compressed from back to back of the mericarps, surrounded 

 by a double wing ; columella free, bipartite ; mericarps flattened 

 from back to face, with the 3 dorsal ridges filiform or thick, the 

 marginal ones developed into a broad wing ; interstices each with 

 a single vitta or with none. Involucres none or of few leaves. 



Plants with ternate-pinnately decompound leaves, and com- 

 pound umbels of white or pale-pink flowers. Easily distinguishable 

 from the other British genera of Urnbelliferce by the fruit being 

 surrounded by a double wing. 



The name of this genus has reference to the supposed angelic properties of the 

 species, and comes from angelus, an angel. 



Sub-Genus I.— EU-ANGELICA. D. C. 



Calyx-limb obsolete ; mericarps flattened, with the dorsal and 

 intermediate pair of ridges filiform, the lateral pair produced into 



