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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Sicm. 
In a cultivated state this is the Garden Angelica, figured in Black w. 496, 
Kniph. 4, and Trag. 422 also badly in FI. Dan. 206.* * 
A. sylves'tris. Leafits equal, egg-spear-shaped, serrated. 
(E. Bot. 1128. E.)— Ludw. 178. 179—Fuchs. 12 5—Tabern. 230. 2— Trag. 
422—Lob. Ic. 699. 1 —J. B. iii. 2. 144— Woodv. 265—Dod. 318. 2—Ger. 
Em. 999. 2— Ger. 846. 2— Matth. 814. 3— H. Ox. ix. 3. row 2. 2 — Park. 
940. 2—Lon. i. 227. 2— Riv. 17. 
( Root large and fleshy. Styles purple. E.) Spokes sometimes nearly ap¬ 
proaching to forty. Fruit-stalks eighty. Relh. Involucrum none, or 
rarely, of one or two very small, slender leaves. Involucellum perma¬ 
nent. Leaves five to twelve, awl-shaped, unequal. Blossom white, more 
or less tinged with purplish red. Seeds, border membranous, with three 
ridges on the outer side. ( Stem two or three feet high, cylindrical, 
smooth, leafy, purplish, glaucous upwards. E.) 
Wild Angelica. (Irish: Borian Leane. Welsh: Llys yr Angel y goedwig. 
E.) Marshy woods and hedges, frequent. P. June—July.t 
SI'UM.J Flowers uniform, all fertile : Involucrum many-leaved : 
Petals heart-shaped: Styles reflexed: Seed nearly egg- 
shaped, striated. 
S. latifo'lium. Leaves winged: leafits egg-spear-shaped, regularly 
and sharply serrated; the terminal leafits three-cleft: umbels 
terminal. 
Hook. FI. Lond. I10.— Jacq. Austr. 66— E. Bot. 204— FI. Dan. 246— Riv. 
Pent. 78. Sium — Dod. 589— Lob. Obs. 113. 1; Ic. i. 208. 1. 2— Ger. Em. 
2 56. 2 — H. Ox. ix. 5. 2—Pet. 26. 2—Ger. 200. I—Ger. Em. 256. 1— 
Park. 1240. 1 —J. B. iii. 2. 175. 1 —Pet. 26. 1. 
( Stem deeply sulcate, angular. FI. Lond. E.) Leafits of the root-leaves in 
marshy places sometimes deeply cut, and the segments of such as are 
under water strap-shaped. Huds. Involucrum, leafits strap-spear¬ 
shaped, toothed. Woodw. A large strong plant five or six feet high. 
Flowers whitish. ( Fruit small, striated. E.) 
Broad-leaved Skerret. Great Water-parsnep. (Irish: Folaght. 
Welsh: Dyfr-foronyn llydanddail. E.) Not unfrequent in rivers and 
fens. Moors near Pitchcroft, Worcester. Dr. Thomson. In Norfolk, fre¬ 
quent. Mr. Woodward. Isle of Ely. Dr. Stokes. Pool in Nottingham 
Park. Dr. Arnold. (In Cors ddygai, near Berw, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh. Mr. Yalden. E.) P. July—Aug.§ 
* (The root, containing an essential oil and acrid resin, is used in some distilled waters, 
and the aromatic candied stalks by the confectioners presented in desserts to promote di¬ 
gestion. For these purposes they are cultivated largely by the gardeners near London, 
the tender stalks being cut in May. E.) 
*J* It is warm, acrid, bitter, and aromatic; but the cultivated kind possessing these pro¬ 
perties in a higher degree, this has been long neglected. Papilio Mnchaon feeds upon it. 
Cows, goats, and swine eat it. Horses refuse it. Linn. Ahorse eat the flowering stem. St. 
+ (From a-Eiu), to shake, as agitated by the stream in which it grows. E.) 
§ Horses and swine eat it. Sheep are not fond of it. The roots are noxious to cattle, 
(rendering them quarrelsome and pugnacious. The seeds of this, and of S. anguslifolium, 
are aromatic and warm to the taste. E.) 
