PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Ligusticum. 81 



Ger. Em. 1000, Cius. Hist. v. 2. 195, and Bauh. Hist. v.3. p. 2. 

 143, which may very probably be this species. 

 The candied stalks are acceptable to most people, being, when 

 so prepared, not too powerfully aromatic. Of the antipestilen- 

 tial virtues of the root, those who wish to be informed, will find 

 amusement, at least, in old Gerarde. 



2. A. ST/lvestris. Wild Angelica. 

 Leaflets equal, ovate, serrated. 



A. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PL 361 . Willd. z). 1 . 1 429. Fl. Br. 311. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 16. t. 1 128. fVoodv. suppl. t. 265. Hook. Scot. 90. 

 Rail Sijn. 208. Ger. Em. 999. f. Dod. Pempt.SlS.f. Trag. 

 Hist. 422./. Fuchs.Hist.\25.f. Matth. Valgr. v.2.5]4.f. Ga- 

 mer. Epit. 900. f. 



A. n. 806. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 358. 



A. sylvestris major. Bauh. Pin. 155. 



A. palustris. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t.l7. 



Water Angelica. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24. f. 10. 



In vi-atery places, alder cars, and the margins of rivers, common. 



Perennial. Jiihj. 



Much smaller than the foregoing. Root large and fleshy. Stem 

 leafy, round, polished, often purple, with wide-spreading branches. 

 Leaves doubly pinnate, a little glaucous ; leaflets ovate, or ovate- 

 lanceolate, sharply, often unequally, serrated, their ribs and veins 

 sometimes downy. Footstalks, of the stem-leaves especially, in- 

 flated like the last. Umbels convex, with numerous, downy, 

 general and partial rays. General bracteas very few, long and 

 narrow ; partial similar, but smaller and more numerous. Fl. 

 white, or more generally flesh-coloured. Styles purple. 



The flavour is more bitter, and less grateful, than the Archangelica, 

 but the virtues of both are similar. 



160. LIGUSTICUM. Lovage. 



Linn. Gen. 137. Juss. 222. Fl. Br. 309. Tourn. t.]7i. Lam. 

 1. 198. Gcertn. ^.85. 



Fl. all perfect, prolific, and regular. Cal. of 5 small, point- 

 ed, erect, permanent leaves ; broad at the base. Pet. 5, 

 elliptical, flatfish, with an inflexed point ; their base con- 

 tracted. Filam. thread-shaped, spreading, shorter than 

 the corolla. Anth. roundish. Germ, oblong, abrupt, 

 moderately compressed, furrowed. Styles in the flower 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, erect, stout, angular, tumid 

 at the base; subsequently a little elongated, spreading, 

 permanent. Stigmas simple. Fl. Recept. none. Fruit 

 elliptic-oblong, rather compressed, crowned with the calyx 



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