154 UMBELLIFER^. (PAESLET FAMILY.) 



OTate-oblong, often blunt, serrate ; involucels as long as the nmbellets ; pedan 

 itlcs asA fruit downy, broadly winged. 1|. (Angelica triqninata, Nutt.) — Dry 

 open woods, New York to Michigan, and southward. July. — Tlowers white. 



2. A-, atropnrptirea, Hoffm. (Great Angelica.) Smooth; stem 

 dark purple, very stout (4° -6° high), hollow; leaves 2-3-temately compound; 

 the leaflets pinnate, 5-7, sharply cut serrate, acute, pale beneath ; petioles much 

 inflated ; involucels very short ; fruit smooth, winged. IJ. (Angelica triqninata, 

 Michx.) — Low river-banks, N. England to Penn., Wisconsin, and northward. 

 June. — Flowers greenish-white. Plant strong-scented; a popular ai'omatic. 



3. A. pereg:rina, Nutt. Stem a little downy at the summit (l°-3° 

 high) ; leaves 2-3-temately divided, the leaflets ovate, acute, cut-serrate, 

 glabrous ; involucels about as long as the umbellets ; fhdt oblong with 5 thick 

 and corky wing-like ribs to each carpel, the marginal ones little broader than the 

 others. 1). — Rocky coast of Massachusetts Bay and northward. July. — 

 Flowers greenish-white. Plant little aromatic. Fruit so thick and so equally 

 ribbed, rather than winged, that it might be taken for a Ligusticum. Perhaps it 

 is the Angelica lucida, L. 



13. CONIOSELitlVUM, Fischer. Hemlock Pabslet. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oval ; the cai-pels convex-flattish and narrowly 

 3-winged on the back, and each more broadly winged at the margins : oil-tabes 

 in the substance of the pericarp, 1 - 3 in each of the intervals, and several on the 

 inner face. — Smooth herbs, with finely 2 - 3-pinnately compound thin leaves, 

 inflated petioles, and white flowers. Involucre scarcely any : leaflets of the 

 involucels awl-shapcd. (Name compounded of Coiiium, the Hemlock, and 

 Selinum, Milk-Parsley, from its resemblance to these two genera.) 



1. C. Canadense, Torr. & Gr. Leaflets pinnatifid; fniit longer than 

 the pedicels. IJ. — Swamps, Vermont to Wisconsin northward, and southward 

 in the Alleghanies. Aug. — Herbage resembling the Poison Hemlock. 



14. JETHtJSA, L. Fool's Paeslet. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Frnit ovate-globose; the carpels each with 5 thick 

 sharply-keeled ridges : intervals with single oil-tubes. — Annual, poisonous 

 herbs, with 2-3-tcrnately compound and many-cleft leaves, the divisions pin- 

 nate, and white flowers. (Name from aWa, to bum, from the acrid taste.) 



1. JE. CvNiPinM, L. Divisions of the leaves wedge-lanceolate ; involucre 

 none ; involucels 3-leaved, long and narrow. — About cultivated grounds. New 

 England, &c. July. — A fetid, poisonous herb, with much the aspect of Poison 

 Hemlock, but with dark-green foliage, long hanging involucels, and imspotted 

 stem. (Adv. from En.) 



15. I.IGIJSTICUM, L. LovAGE. 



Culyx-tccth small or minute. Fruit elliptical, round on the cross-section, or 

 slightly flattened on the sides ; the carpels each wth 5 sharp and projecting or 

 u'an-owly winged ridges : intervals and inner face with many oil-tubes. — Peren- 



