ISO 



XXXVill. UMBELLIFER^. 



[ Crithmttm. 



Pet entire, elliptical, the point incurved. (Partial involucre of 

 many leaves.) — Is^ame : supposed to be the ii^ov of Dioscorides 

 1. M. Athamcinticum Jacq. {Meu, or Bald-Money) ; all the 

 leaflets multipartite, segments bristle-shaped. E. B, t. 2^49 

 Athamanta Meum Z. • • • - . 



Dry alpine pastures, In the North of England and Scotland 

 especially in the Highlands, frequent. %. 6,1, — Root fusiform' 

 eaten by the Highlanders as an aromatic and carminative: at its 

 summit are the fibrous remains of former v ears' leaves. 



Flowers yellowish. 



dark-green, doubly-pinnate , ^.,^ ^, 



its setaceo-multifid leaf and powerfully aromatic smell. 



23. Ckithmum Linn, Samphire. 



Leaves lono-^ 

 Remarkable for 



) 



Fruit elliptical. Carpels spongy, with 5 elevated, sharp 

 somewhat winged rihs, and, as well as the loose seed, abundantly 

 marked with vitlce. Cal-teeth obsolete. Pet elliptical, entire 

 involute. (Involucres of many leaves.) — Name from KpiQq 

 barley ; from the resemblance between the fruit of this plant 



and a grain of barley. 



,). p:. 



Rocks by the sca-slde- 



on the coast of the 

 5 



Rare in Scotland ; 

 Sol way Frith, and Colzean Castle, Ayrshire. 



plant very succulent, pale green. Leaves bi-triternate ; leaflets lanceo- 

 late fleshy. Leaves of the involucre lanceolate. 



n. 



8. — Whole 



C. Fruit not prickly nor beaked, much and dorsally compressed ; 



Albumen solid. (Gen. 24 — 2? ^ 



) 



24. Angelica Linn. 



Angelica. 



) 



Fruit flat, with 2 wino-s on each side. 



Carpels with 3 elevated 

 dorsal ribs, the lateral ones spreading into broad win<Ts. 

 teeth small or obsolete. 



Cat- 



Pet elliptical-lanceolate, entire and 

 inflected at the point. — Named Angelic from its cordial and 

 medicinal properties. 



1. A. "^Ar Chang elica L. (Garden A.) ; terminal leaflet lobed, 

 calyx 5.toothed, fruit without vitta?, seed free marked with 



numerous vitt^. E. B. t. 2561. Archangelica officinalis 

 Hoffm. 



Watery places, rare. Birmingham ; Dorking, Surrey ; also in 

 Durham: but nowhere truly wild. $. 1—9,— Stem 4—5 feet 

 high, and from 1—2 inches in the thickest diameter, glabrous, fistu- 

 lose. Leaves bipinnate ; flowers greenish -white. 



2. A, sylvestris L. (wild A.) \ leaflets equal ovate serrate at 

 the base somewhat lobed, calyx-teeth obsolete, fruit with the 

 interstices of the ridges having single vitta?, seed adherin^^ with- 

 out vitt^e. P. B. t. 1128. ° 



