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32. Skli'ntim. — Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid ; umbel com- 

 pound, many-rayed ; bracts alisent ; braeleules many, subulate ; 

 flowers white; jruit lo-wingcd; lateral ridges \)\o&Aei,i, diverging; 

 vittee solitary. (Name from the Greek selinon; parsley.) 



I. S- CarvifcHia (False Milk Parsley). — Root-fibres stout, fusi- 

 form ; stem erect, solid, 2 — 4 feet high, angular, furrowed ; lower 

 leaves with short sheath and very long, channelled stalk, dull, dark 

 green, greyer beneath ; leaflets finely serrate, with a bristly ape.\ ; 



ANGELICA S^'LV£STRIS (Il'iJd Aitji^elicaf: 



umbels terminal, large, compact, 20 — 30-rayed, fiat-topped ; braets 

 absent or r. — Moist, shady places, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire 

 and Cambridgeshire. Resembling PeueeJaimm pali'isire, the 

 Milk Parsley. Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



^55. Angelica. — Tall plants, with ternately bipinnate leaves 

 with large segments ; umbels compound, many-rayed ; braets few 

 or none ; bracteoles many, small ; sepals indistinguishable ; petals 

 white ; lateral ridges with membranous, parallel, thin wings ; vittcs 

 solitary or 2 together. (Name from it-s angelic medicinal pro- 

 perties. ) 



