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32. Sel/num. — Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid ; umbel com- 

 pound, many-rayed ; bracts absent ; bracteoles many, subulate ; 

 flowers white; fruit 10-winged; lateral ridges broadest, diverging; 

 vittce solitary. (Name from the Greek selinon, parsley.) 



1. S. Carvifdlia (False Milk Parsley). — Root-fibres stout, fusi- 

 form ; stem erect, solid, 2 — 4 feet high, angular, furrowed ; lower 

 leaves with short sheath and very long, channelled stalk, dull, dark 

 green, greyer beneath ; leaflets finely serrate, with a bristly apex ; 



angelica SYLv£stris {Wild Angelica). 



umbels terminal, large, compact, 20 — 30-rayed, flat-topped ; bracts 

 absent or 1. — Moist, shady places, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire 

 and Cambridgeshire. Resembling PeuceTdanum palustre, the 

 Milk Parsley. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



33. Angelica. — Tall plants, with ternately bipinnate leaves 

 with large segments ; umbels compound, many-rayed ; bracts few 

 or none ; bracteoles many, small ; sepals indistinguishable ; petals 

 white ; lateral ridges with membranous, parallel, thin wings ; vittce 

 solitary or 2 together. (Name from its angelic medicinal pro- 

 perties. ) 



