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ii. AkoblICA Tribe. FYuitdoTsMy compressed, with a double wing on cack 

 k ;ie. AxGKi-i'-K.E. DC. 



148. ANGELICA. L. JVWft. Gen. 270. 

 (Latin ; "at) atigelicA vinute ;" from its supposed extraordinary virtues.] 



Calux with the limb 5-toothcd, or obsolete. Petals oval, or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, with an incurved, or straight acumination. Fruit elliptic, 

 compressed on the back, 2-winged on the margin. Carpels with 8 

 elevated approximate dorsal ribs 9 and 2 lateral ones dilated into the 

 marginal wings. Channels with single vittx, Commissure with 2 

 to 4 viitx, and a central longitudinal groove. Involucre 0, or few- 

 leaved. Involucels many-leaved. 



1. A. TRianxATA, JMx. Stem striate, hoary-pubescent at summit ; 

 leaves pseudo-bipinnatc, the divisions often quinate ; leaflets ovate- 

 oblong, equally serrate ; umbels spreading, and, with the peduncles, 

 tJincntose-pubesccnt. Beck, Bot. p. 1 17. Not of BigeU 

 A. hirsuta triquinata. JWuIiL CataL p. 31. 



Also, Ferula villosa. Pursh, Am. I. p. 192. excluding the synonym* 

 TitiaviNATE Angelica. 



Root perennial. Stcm2 to 4 or 5 feet high, and 1 fourth to half an inch in diam- 

 eter, simple, erect, terete, striate, smoothish and purple below, pubescent or whit- 

 ish-villose at summit. Lower leaves somewhat triternately compounded, on naked 

 petioles 4 to 10 ov 1*2 inches long, with an inch or two of the base dilated and embra- 

 cing the stem. Upper, or stem leaves, mostly kipinnatcly dissected, with the di- 

 visions in threes fives, or sevens ; the petioles 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, and about 

 half an inch wide,— dilated nearly in their whole length. Leujtds, or segments, 1 

 to -and a half inches long, and half an inch to an inch wide, mostly ovate-oblong, 

 rather acute, a little oblique at base, sessile, or un short petioles, smooth and some- 

 what coriaceous ; the terminal one oval, lance-ovate, or subrhomboid, generally 

 cuneate at base, sessile, or often tapering to a petiole* Umbels 3 or 4, terminal 

 and s'.ibterminal, on somewhat corymbose, sulcate, pubescent peduncles; the lat- 

 eral peduncles with a sublanceulate bract, or rather the membranous petiole of an 

 abortive leaf, at base ; rays spreading, unequal, 1 to 2 inches long, sulcate, densely 

 clothed with a while tomentosc pubescence. Involucre 0. Involucels of 6 to 10 

 unequal s.ibulatc-linear and often unilateral leaves, finally rather shorter than 

 tho rays of the umbellcts. Calyx distinctly 5-toothed. Petals white, roundish 

 ovate, with a long subulate inflexed acumination. Fruit elliptic-oblong, pubescent, 

 crowned with the thick subconic base of the diverging or reflexed styles. Carpels 

 with 3 approximated prominent almost w inged dorsal ribs, the two lateral ones 

 dilated into a broad margin. Commissure with 3 longitudinal grooves, in the ma- 

 ture fruit, and 4 1 vitta (2, DC). 



Hob. Borders of woodlands, and thickets : frequent. Fl. July -Aug. Fr. SepL-Oct. 

 Obs. This is unquestionably, I think, the A. triquinata of all the American Bo- 

 tanists, except Dr. Bigeloxc,— w ho considers the following species to be Michaux'e 

 plant: But it seems to me, that the observation of Michaux,— "pedunculo pedicel- 

 lisquo minutiesima pubc subcandicantilus,"— applies better to this species, than 

 t»> the following. 



2. A. atropurpurea, L. Stem sulcate-striate, smooth, dark purple; 

 learef pseudo-bipinnate, the divisions ternate and qu>nate ; leaflet* 

 lance-orate, acute, unequallv incised-serrate, sub-Iobed, the outermost 



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