﻿Engl. Bot. t.940. — Linn. Sp. PI. p.379.— Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 129. — 

 Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 334. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 77. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p.398. — 

 Lindl. Syn. p. 123 — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 127.- Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 170 — 

 Sihth. FI. Oxon. p. 103. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 69.- Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 159. 

 — Belli. FI. Cantab. (3rd ed.) p. 128.— Hook. FI. Scot. p. 95.— Grev. FI. Edin. 

 p. 70. — FI. Devon, pp. 54 & 168. — Johnston’s FI. of Beriv. p. 70. — Don’s Gen. 

 Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 288. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 82. — Bab. FI. Bath. 

 p.21.— Mack. Catal. ofPl. oflrel. p.30. — JEgopodium angelicafolium, Gray’s 

 Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 515. — Angelica sylvestris minor seu erratica, Ray’s Syn. 

 p. 208. — Herba Gerardi, Johnson’s Geraide, p. 1001. 



Localities. — In low moist cultivated ground, shady waste places, and under 

 hedges. — Frequent. 



Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 



Roots creeping very extensively. Stems from 1 to 3 feet high, 

 upright, leafy, hollow, furrowed, smooth, slightly branched. Leaves 

 compound ; lower ones twice ternate, stalked ; upper simply ter- 

 nate, nearly sessile ; the uppermost opposite. Leaflets 1 or 2 in- 

 ches long, or more, egg-shaped, or half heart-shaped, the lateral 

 ones generally unequal at the base, sharply serrated, smooth, dark 

 green, more or less stalked. Common footstalks 3-sided, the 

 upper side somewhat channelled ; broadly winged at the base. 

 Umbels terminal and axillary, large, flattish, with many angular 

 rays, finely downy, as are likewise the numerous and slender rays 

 of the partial umbels. General and partial Involucrums none. 

 Flowers crowded, white. Petals somewhat unequal, inversely 

 heart-shaped, with inflexed points. Fruit slightly flattened on the 

 sides, crowned by the elongated, recurved styles. Seeds ( carpels 

 of HooK.y 3-ribbed. 



This being a great creeper, is one of the worst plants that can 

 be admitted into a garden ; for after it has once established itself, 

 it is almost impossible to eradicate it again. The root is pungently 

 aromatic, with some acrimony, but it is not at all used in medi- 

 cine ; nor has it any title to its name Gout-weed, though the Ger- 

 mans formerly used it to assuage the pain both of the gout and 

 piles. Linnaeus says it is eaten in Sweden, boiled for greens, 

 when tender in the Spring. The same author also informs us, 

 that cows, sheep, and goats eat it, that horses are not fond of it, 

 and that swine refuse it. 



. The roots are sometimes sold for those of the true Masterwort, 

 Imperatdria Ostruthium. 



Puccinia /Egopodii, of Dr. Greville’s Flora Edinensis, p. 

 429, is parasitical on the stems, leaves, and leaf-stalks of this plant, 

 in the neighbourhood of Oxford, in May and June. 



