80 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Angelica, 



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fruit advances to maturity. Fruit elliptical, slightly com- 

 pressed, bordered, crowned with the^. recept. and spread- 

 ing styles. Seeds convex and oblong, with 3 elevated, lon- 

 gitudinal, dorsal wings, a little distant from their lateral 

 flat border, which scarcely exceeds the wings in breadth; 

 interstices more or less wrinkled. 

 Large, herbaceous, aromatic and wholesome plants, with 

 round, hollow stems ; repeatedly compound, pinnate, very 

 large, serrated leaves; and terminal, many-rayed umbels. 

 General bracteas few or none ; partial numerous ; all 

 linear and narrow, though the latter occasionally become 

 leafy and serrated. Fl. greenish, or white, numerous, 

 rather small. 



*1. A. Archangelica. Garden Angelica. 

 Terminal leaflet lobed. 



A. Archangelica. Linn. Sp. PI. 360. JVilld.v. 1. 1428. Fl. Br. 3\l. 



Engl. Bot.v. 36. t. 2561. fVith.297. IVoodv.Med. Bot. t.50. 



Winch Guide v. 1. 27. 

 A. n. 807. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 358. 

 A. sativa. Bauh. Pin. \55. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. [40. f. Ger. 



Em. 999./. Bill, in Raii Syn. 208. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 513./. 



Fuchs.Hist.\2'i.f. 

 Angelica. Riv. Pentap. Irr. «. 1 5. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24. f. 9. Lob. 



Ic. 698./. Camer. Epit. 899./. Trag. Hist. 421 ./. 

 A. major. Dod. Pempt. 318. f. 



In watery places, rave, apparently a naturalized plant. 



At Broadmoore, about 7 miles north-westfrom Birmingham. With. 

 About the Tower of London, and on the banks of ditches, fre- 

 quent. Doodij. In marshes, among reeds, by the side of the 

 Thames, between Woolwich and Plumstead, very abundantly. 

 Mr. Girard. In the county of Durham. Mr. W. Backhouse. 



Biennial. June — September. 



Root large, fleshy, branched, resinous, pungently aromatic. Stem 

 erect, 4 or 5 feet high, and from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, leafy, 

 branched in the upper part, striated, polished, a little glaucous. 

 The foliage, stalks, and even the flowers, are all of a bright green. 

 Leaves 2 or 3 feet wide, ternate, then pinnate, very smooth ; 

 le njlets ovate-lanceolate, acute, cut and sharply serrated, partly 

 decurrent , the odd one deeply 3-lobed. Footstalks, at the base, 

 excessively dilated and tumid, pale and rather membranous, with 

 many ribs . Umbels, both general and partial, nearly globose, 

 the rays of both very numerous, spreading, downy. General 

 Bracteas few, linear, deciduous, often wanting 5 partial about 8, 

 linear-lanceolate,short J occasionally enlarged, leafy, and notch- 

 ed, as in the figure named Archangelica, in Dod. Pempt, 318, 



