226 PARSLEY ORDER 



Aletes Coulter and Rose 1900 



(Gr. aletes , wanderer) 



PI. 35, fig. 15, 25. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, the teeth prominent, petals 

 5/ white, stamens 5, ovary 2-eelled, styles 2 without a base or stylopodium, 

 fruit oblong or short cylindric, the ridges equal and distinct, oil-tubes soli- 

 tary in the intervals, 2 next the commissure and 1 in each ridge; leaves 

 pinnate with toothed leaflets ; stemless perennial. 

 Flower-stalks shorter than the leaves ; leaflets vari- 

 ously lobed or cleft; fruit 4-6 mm. long A. acaulis 



Angelica Linne 1753 



(Named for supposed medicinal properties) 



PL 35, fig. 21. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth none or small, petals 5, 

 usually white, more rarely greenish-yellow or purplish, stamens 5, ovary 2- 

 celled, stylopodium flattened, fruit ovoid, compressed dorsally, dorsal and 

 intermediate ribs prominent, lateral ribs broadly winged, oil-tubes 1-several 

 in the intervals, 2-10 on the commissure side; leaves once or twice pinnate 

 or ternate-pinnate ; leafy stemmed perennial. 



1. Leaves ternately divided, then once or twice pin- 



nate 



a. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals 



(1) Fruit smooth A.Lydllii 



(2) Fruit rough or hairy A. rosedna 



b. Oil-tubes many A. dmpla 



2. Leaves once or twice pinnate 



a. Leaves once pinnate ; involucel absent A. pinndta 



b. Leaves twice pinnate ; involucel of conspicuous 



bracts A. Grdyi 



Aulospermum Coulter and Rose 1900 

 (Gr. aulos, groove, sperma, seed) 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, the teeth evident, petals 5, 

 white, yellow or purple, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium none, fruit 

 oblong to round with 3-5 rather broad wings on each half, oil-tubes several 

 in the intervals, 2 or more on the commissure side; leaves usually 1-3-pin- 

 nate, often much dissected ; stemless or stemmed perennial. 

 1. Stem more or less evident; fruit 4-8 mm. long 

 a. Flowers yellow A. Idngipes 



