Angelica. ] XXXV. UMBELLIFERZ. 195 
Europe and Russian Asia to the Arctic regions. Abundant in Britain, 
Fl. late in summer. | 
The garden Angelica (A. Archangelica), a native of northern and eastern 
_ Europe, long cultivated for confectionery, is not wild in Britain. 
XXIII, PEUCEDANUM. PEUCEDAN. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial involucres of many 
bracts. Petals white or yellowish, entire or notched, with an inflected 
point. Fruit flattened from front to back ; the calycine teeth very small or 
indistinct. Carpels broad, with 3 prominent ribs on the back, the edges 
expanded into a wing, those of the two carpels so close as to form a single 
edge to the fruit before the carpels separate. Vittas single under the 
furrows. — 
A large genus, widely spread over Europe, Asia, and North America, 
scarcely differing from Heracleum except in the more evident ribs of the 
carpels, the more slender vittas, and generally in habit, 
Segments of the leaves narrow-oblong or linear. 
Leaves several times ternate. Flowers yellowish ‘ » IL. P. officinale, 
Leaves twice or three times pinnate. Flowers white : . 2 P. palustre. 
Leaves of 3 broad segments, each one 3 inches long, and often 
3-lobed . i : - > : . : : 5 - 3. P. Ostruthium. 
The Dillseed (Anethum graveolens), often cultivated as a condiment, has 
the fruit of a Peucedanum, with the fine leaves of a Feniculum. 
1, P. officinale, Linn. (fig. 433). Sea Peucedan, Hog’s Fennel or Sulphur- 
weed.—A glabrous perennial, with erect, branching stems, 2 or even 3 feet 
high. Leaves 3, 4, or 5 times ternate, with narrow-linear entire segments, 
often above 2 inches long. Umbels large, of 20 or more rays, with pale 
yellow flowers. Bracts of the general involucre very few or wanting; those 
of the partial involucres very narrow and shorter than the pedicels. Fruit 
broadly oval, near 3 lines long. 
In meadows and moist pastures, in central and eastern Europe and Rus- 
sian Asia, or near the sea in western Europe. Scarce in Britain: forms 
of Hinanthe pimpinelloides or of Silaus pratensis have been so frequently 
mistaken for it, that the only certain stations for the true Peucedanum are 
the salt marshes of Kent and Essex, and the Channel islands. FV. summer 
and autumn. - 
2, P. palustre, Mench. (fig. 434). Marsh Peucedan, Hog’s Fennel 
or Milk Parsley.—Tall and erect like the last, but often hairy at the base, 
and the juice is milky, Leaves twice or thrice pinnate rather than ternate 
- with much shorter segments, varying from oblong to linear, and seldom 
exceeding half an inch. Umbels not so large asin P. officinale, although 
consisting of as many rays. Flowers white. Involucres, both general and 
partial, of several lanceolate or linear bracts, with fine points. Fruit 
broadly oval, about 2 lines long. 
In wet meadows and marshes, in central, eastern, and northern Europe, 
and Russian Asia, to the Arctic Circle. Apparently wanting in western 
France, although it extends into Spain. Like P. officinale very local in 
Britain, and only known for certain in the marshes of eastern England, 
from Suffolk to Yorkshire, and in Somerset. FV. late in summer. 
3, P.Ostruthium, Koch. (fig. 435), Broad Peucedan, Master- 
02 
