682 UMBELLIFERAE. | Angelica. 
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13. ANGELICA/Linn. 1753 
Perennial herbs, often tall and stout, usually erect, rarely scrambling 
or subscandent. Leaves pinnate or 2—3-pinnate. Umbels compound, 
dioecious or polygamous. Calyx-teeth usually obsolete, rarely prominent. 
Petals incurved at the apex. Fruit ovate or oblong, more or less dorsally 
flattened with a broad commissure; carpels 5-ribbed, the 2 lateral mbs 
very broad, forming a wing on each side of the carpel, the 3 dorsal much 
smaller and narrower. Vittae 1 or 2 in each furrow, rarely more. Seed 
much dorsally compressed, plane or concave on the inner face, 
An ill-defined genus, which, taken in a wide sense, contains from 50 to 60 species, 
mainly found in North America, Europe, and western Asia. The New Zealand species 
form a peculiar little group confined to the Dominion, and 2 of them are specially 
remarkable from their subscandent habit, a character almost unknown in the 
Umbelliferae. 
* Herbaceous, erect. Leaves mostly radical. 
Tall, stout, 1-2ft. Leaves pinnate; leaflets many, 1-21n., 
crenate je a *, <. +, .. LL. A. montana. 
Slender, 3-6 in. Leaves pinnate; leaflets many, pinnatifid . decipiens. 
Slender, 3-9 in. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate ; leaflets 1-2 pairs, 
rhombeo-orbicular, crenate wd 4 aa .. 3 A. brifoliolata. 
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** Suffruticose, subscandent. Leaves cauline. 
Leaves l-foliolate or 3-foliolate ; leaflets small, 4-4 in. .. 4 A. geniculata, 
Leaves pinnate; leaflets 2-§ pairs, large, 1-2gin. .. .. oo. A. rosaefolia, 
1. A. montana, Cockayne im Rep. on Scenery Preservation (1915) 14.— 
A stout, erect, highly aromatic herb, 1-2 ft. high. Root thick and fleshy. 
Stems +-$1in. diam. at the base, smooth and striate, sparingly branched 
above. Radical leaves 6-151n. long, rather fleshy, glaucous, pinnate : 
leaflets 5-10 pairs, close together or the lower rather distant, 1—2 in. long, 
sessile, obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, finely crenate or serrate, 
rarely lobed, veins finely reticulate; petioles stout, often longer than 
the blade, sheath narrow. Umbels few, compound, 1-3in. diam.; rays 
10-20, slender, spreading; involucre wanting; partial umbels usually 
with an involucel of a few linear bracts. Flowers white. Fruit + in. long, 
ovate-cordate ; carpels much compressed, with a broad lateral wing on 
each side, which is produced downwards at the base; dorsal ribs small ; 
vittae 1 in each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.—Gingidium 
montanum Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 21.  Ligusticum Gingidium Forst. /f. 
Prodr. (1786) n. 140. Anisotome Gingidium Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel, i (1853) 
89. Angelica Gingidium Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 97; T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 212; Cheesem Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 222; Ill. N.Z. 
Fl. i (1914) t. 68. Ae ene HIG So bee 
NortH AND SoutH Isutanps: From Kawhia and Taupo southwards to Otago; 
once very abundant, but as it is everywhere greedily eaten by stock it has become 
scarce In many districts. Sea-level to 4000 ft. Aniseed. November—January. 
2. A. decipiens Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 98.—Very aromatic, 
3-8 in. high. Root stout, thick and woody. Leaves numerous, spreading, 
usually all radical, 3-6 in. long, pinnate; leaflets 6-10 pairs, }-4+ in. long, 
sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, membranous or flaccid, irregularly deeply 
toothed or pinnatifid; lobes linear, acute, not bristle-pointed ; petioles 
shorter than the blade, sheath broad. Flowering stems several, usually 
