118 UMBELLIFER^E. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



13. ANGELICA, L. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete or minute. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit ovate, with 

 a very broad commissure. — Usually tall and stout perennials (ours are 

 glabrous or nearly so) : leaves pinnate or compound, the toothed segments 

 usually broad . umbels many-rayed. 



# Involucre and involucels none. 



1. A. pinnata, Watson. Stem rather slender, 2 to 3 feet high: leaves 

 simply pinnate, with a tendency to be bipinnate in the lower pair of leaflets ; 

 leaflets 1 to 6 inches long, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, sharply and somewhat 

 unequally serrate, occasionally entire. — Bot. King's Exp. 126. "Wasatch and 

 Uinta Mountains. 



2. A. Lyallii, Watson. Stout, 4 or 5 feet high : leaves ternate-quinate ; the 

 leaflets lanceolate, mostly cuneate at base, unequally dentate. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xvii. 374. From Montana to Oregon and the British boundary. 



* * Involucre and involucels conspicuous. 



3. A. Dawsoni, Watson. Rather slender, 1 to 3 feet high : radical leaves 

 biternate, the lanceolate leaflets 1 or 2 inches long, sharply and finely serrate, 

 the terminal one sometimes deeply 3-cleft: cauline leaves (1 or 2 or none) 

 similar: umbel solitary, the conspicuous involucre of numerous foliaceous 

 lacerately toothed bracts nearly equalling the rays ; involucels similar. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xx. 369. Rocky Mountains near the British boundary, and proba- 

 bly in N. Montana. 



14. ABCEAN6ELICA, Hoffm. 



Calyx-teeth short. Seed becoming loose in the pericarp. — Much like 

 Angelica. 



1. A. Gmelini, DC. Stem a little downy at the summit, 1 to 3 feet 

 high : leaves 2 to 3-ternately divided ; leaflets ovate, acute, cut-serrate, gla- 

 brous : fruit oblong. — Colorado to Oregon and Bering Straits ; also along 

 the New England coast. 



15. CTMOPTBRTTS, Raf. 



Calyx-teeth prominent or often small or obsolete. Stylopodium depressed. 

 Fruit ovate or elliptical, obtuse or retuse. — Low and often cespitose, with a 

 thickened root : leaves pinnately and finely decompound, with small narrow 

 segments : umbels usually with both involucre and involucels. 

 * Flowers yellow. 



1 . C. alpinus, Gray. Caudex cespitose : leaves pinnatisect ; pinnae 3 to 5, 

 approximate, 3 to 7-parted ; segments linear-lanceolate, very entire, or the 

 lower 2 to 3-cleft : scape 2 to 4 inches high, bearing a subcapitale umbel a little 

 longer than the leaves: involucels 5 to 7-parted; segments equalling the 

 golden flowers : wings of the fruit somewhat erose ; oil-tubes 1 or 2 in the 

 intervals, 4 on the commissure. — Am. Jour. Sci., n. xxxiii. 408. High alpine, 

 from Colorado to Mentana. 



2. C. terebinthinus, Torr. & Gray. Shortly caulescent, 6 to 18 inches 

 high, leafy at base : leaves rather rigid, thrice pinnate : leaflets a line long or 



