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PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
satira. 
triquinata. 
leaves are very large, and the whole plant exhales, when dry 
especially, a most delicious fragrance. In the woods back of 
the Blue-bell inn, on the Darby-road, and in those near the 
falls of Schuylkill, west side. It dehghts in rich and damp soil. 
Rare. Perennial. July. 
135. PASTINACA. Gen. pi. 494. {Umbellifera.) 
Fruit oval, apex emarginate, flatly (and dor- 
sally) compressed, marginated, ridges (on 
each seed, 5, obsolete, intervals striate, 
commissure also bistriate. Involucrum 
universal and partial, none.^ — Sprengel. 
1. P. leaves simply pinnate. — Willd. 
Wild Parsnip. 
From three to four feet high. Flowers yellow, in large um- 
bels. In a cultivated state, the rank smell and taste of this 
plant disappear, when the root is eaten, as is well known, at 
our tables, under the name of parsnip. Introduced, but now 
naturalized. On the borders of cultivated fields, common. 
Perennial. June, July. 
136. ANGELICA. Gen. pi. 479. {Umbellifer^e.) 
Fruit elliptic, compressed, somewhat solid, 
and corticate, ridges 3, dorsal acute, inter- 
vals grooved, margin alated. Involucrum 
universal none. — Sprengel. 
1. A. petiole three-parted, divisions primate, 5- 
leaved, folioles cut dentate ; the terminating odd 
one sessile rhomboid, lateral ones decursive. — 
Mich. 
A. hirsuta, Muhl. 
Wild .Angelica. 
About three feet high. Flowers white. In woods commoij. 
Perennial. June. 
