UMBELLIFEM]. 



ral and the partial involucres. Flowers 

 white, crowded. Fruits always hairy, 

 and there is often a minute whitish 

 down on the stems, petioles, and umbels. 

 In hilly pastures, in central and east- 

 ern Europe and Russian Asia, less fre- 

 quent in the west, and wanting in the 

 south. In Britain, limited to the coun- 

 ties of Hertford, Cambridge, and Sussex. 

 Fl. summer. 



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Fig. 422. 



XX. LOVAGE. LIGUSTICUM. 



Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial involucres of 

 many bracts. Petals white, notched, with an inflected point. Fruit 

 ovoid or oblong, not compressed, the calycine teeth scarcely distinct. 

 Carpels with 5 very prominent acute ribs, almost expanded into wings, 

 and several vittas under each furrow. 



A genus of several European, Asiatic, and North American species, 

 chiefly mountain plants, differing from Seseli in the acute ribs of the 

 fruit, and indistinct calycine teeth. 



1. Scotch Lovage. 



Ligusticum scoticum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 423.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1207.) 



Stock perennial, descending into a tap-root. Stem erect, glabrous, 

 thick and hollow, 1 to 2 feet high, slightly branched. Lower leaves 

 on long stalks, deeply divided into 3, each branch bearing 3 broadly 

 ovate or obovate toothed segments, or 1 segment deeply divided into 3 



