ANGELICA ARCHANGELICA, 
resorted to in these diseases, particularly by the German physicians ; 
it has also been deemed serviceable in dropsy and scurvy: the 
Laplanders, Linnaeus tells us, employ it as a substitute for hops. In 
this country buck-bean is now seldom ordered, though it may be 
considered fully equal in its virtues to any of the other vegetable 
bitters, and probably superior to many of them. The dose of the 
dried leaves powdered, is from 3ss to 3i, or of an infusion made with 
3ss of the dried leaves and boiling water Oss, from ^i to giss may be 
taken three or four times a day. Dr. Thomson recommends it to be 
joined to some aromatic, whether given in substance or infusion; 
there is no officinal preparation of buck-bean. 
Off. The Leaves. 
ANGELICA ARCHANGELICA, 
Garden Angelica.'^ 
Class Pentandria.— Ort/er Digynia. 
Nat. Ord. Umbellate, Linn. Juss. 
Gen. Char. General involucre often wanting. Corollas 
equal. Petals bent inward. Fruit roundish, angular, solid. 
Styles reflected. 
Spec. Char. Leaves bipinnaled, with the terminal leaves 
3-lobed. 
The name of this plant would lead us to suppose that it was 
originally a native of Italy, yet we are told that it is indigenous to 
the more northern parts of Europe.f It is occasionally found 
« Fig. a. represents the upper part of a leaf in outline, b, A flower magnified, 
shewing the five anthers, c. The germen and styles, d. A seed. 
+ " Ubique per omnes alpes LappoAiae juxta vivolos vulgaris est." 
Linn. Flor, Lap. p. 67, 
