PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. .^opotlium. 77 



or not quite equilateral, broadest at the top. Styles at 

 first short, erect, tumid and ovate at the base ; subse- 

 quently elongated, thread-shaped, widely spreading and 

 reflexed, reaching half the length of the fruit, permanent. 

 Stigmas capitate. Floral Receptacle none. Fruit elliptic- 

 oblong, solid, slightly compressed, crowned with the re- 

 flexed styles. Seeds oblong, imperfectly cylindrical, slight- 

 ly incurved, each with 3 dorsal, and 2 marginal, promi- 

 nent, equidistant ribs ; the interstices nearly flat ; the 

 juncture close, hardly so broad as the diameter of each 

 seed. 

 Herbaceous, perennial, creeping extensively. Leaves once 

 or twice ternate, broad, pointed, serrated. Umbels ter- 

 minal and axillary, large, with many general, as well as 

 partial, roughish rays, entirely destitute o^bracteas. Fruit 

 rarely perfected. 



1. M. Podas^raria. Common Gout-weed, Herb 

 Gerarde. 



^. Podagraria. Linn. Sp. PI. 2,7 d. Willd.v. I. \476. Fl. Br. 334. 



Engl. Bot.v. 14. ^.940. Hook. Scot. 95. Fl. Dan. t.670. Ehrh. 



PI. Off. 453. 

 Sison Podagraria. Spreng. Prodr. 35. 



Podagraria n. 759. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 333. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 47. 

 P. germanica aut belgica. Lob. Ic. 700. f. 

 Angelica sylvestris minor;, seu erratica. Bauh. Pin. 155. Rail 



Sijn. 208. 

 A. sylvestris repens. Moris, v. 3. 281. sect. 9. t. 4. f. II. ■ 

 Herba Gerardi. Dad. Pempt. 320. f. Ger. Em. 1001. f. 



In low moist cultivated ground, shady waste places, and under 

 hedges. 



Perennial. May, June. 



/Zoo^s creeping to a great extent, very difficult of extirpation. 

 Stems a foot or two in height, erect, leafy, hollow, furrowed, not 

 much branched, smooth. Lower leaves twice ternate, stalked ; 

 tipper simply ternate, almost sessile ; the uppermost opposite : 

 leaflets 1 or 2 inches, or more, in length, ovate, or half heart- 

 shaped, taper-pointed, sharply serrated, smooth, dark green, 

 more or less stalked. Common footstalks broadly winged at the 

 base. Umbels large, convex, with numerous angular rays, finely 

 downy, more especially at one side ; as are likewise the more 

 copious and slender rays of the partial umbels. There are no 

 traces of general ox partial bracteas at any time, as far as I have 

 been able to discover. Fl. crowded, pure white. Petals broader 

 than long, their points excepted. 



The root is pungentlv aromatic, with some acrimony, of vvhich fia- 



