140 PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



leaves are very large, and the whole plant exhales, when dry 

 especially, a most delicious fragrance. In the woods back of 

 the Blue-bell inn, on the Darby-road, and in those near the 

 falls of Schuylkill, west side. It delights in rich and damp soil, 

 Rare. Perennial. July. 



135. PASTIXACA. Gen. pi. 494. (UmbeBifera.) 



Fruit oval, apex emarginate, flatly (and dor- 

 sally) compressed, marginated, ridges (on 

 each seed, 5, obsolete, intervals striate, 

 commissure also bistriate. Involucrum 

 universal and partial, none. — Sprengel. 



wtira. 1. P. leaves simply pinnate. — Willd. 



Wild Parsnip. 



From three to four feet high. Flowers yellow, in large um- 

 bels. In a cultivated state, the rank smell and taste of this 

 plant disappear, when the root is eaten, as is well known, at 

 our tables, under the name of parsnip. Introduced, but now 

 naturalized. On the borders of cultivated fields, common. 

 Perennial. June, July. 



uiquinata. 



136. ANGELICA. Gen. pi. 479. (Umbellifer*.) 



Fruit elliptic, compressed, somewhat solid, 

 and corticate, ridges 3, dorsal acute, inter- 

 vals grooved, margin alated. Involucrum 

 universal none. — Sprengel. 



1. A. petiole three-parted, divisions primate, 5- 

 leaved, folioles cut dentate; the terminating odd 

 one sessile rhomboid, lateral ones decursive. — 

 Mich. 



A. hirsuta, Muhl. 



Wild Angelica. 



About three feet high. Flowers white. In woods commog. 

 Perennial. June. 



