508 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
table, others deadly poisons when improperly used, but all of them 
offering interesting objects for botanical study. We shall take a 
cursory glance at the more interesting species, taking them at 
random as they present themselves. The genus Angelica, with 
which we commence our remarks, is so named from angelus, an 
angel, having reference to the supposed angelic properties of the 
Fig. 445.—Angelica. 
several species. The Anyelicee are plants with pinnately de 
compound leaves, compound umbels of white, pale, pink flowers 
the fruit surrounded by a double ring. The Garden rer 
(Archangelica officinalis), formerly largely cultivated on actount of : 
aromatic pungent leaf stalks (Fig. 445), is a pretty herbaceous 
plant, indigenous in the mountains of the south and east of France oe 
and probably in England; it is tap-rooted, the root rather volo e 
