. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. AMMIACEAE. Vol. IT. 2. Ligusticum scoticum L. Scotch or Sea Lovage. Sea Parsley. Fig. 3152. Ligusticum scoticum L. Sp. PI. 250. 1753. Stem simple, or rarely slightly branched, lo'-3° high. Leaves mostly biternate, the segments thick and fleshy, broadly obovate- ovate or oval, 1-4' long, shining, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed or the terminal one rounded at the
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. AMMIACEAE. Vol. IT. 2. Ligusticum scoticum L. Scotch or Sea Lovage. Sea Parsley. Fig. 3152. Ligusticum scoticum L. Sp. PI. 250. 1753. Stem simple, or rarely slightly branched, lo'-3° high. Leaves mostly biternate, the segments thick and fleshy, broadly obovate- ovate or oval, 1-4' long, shining, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed or the terminal one rounded at the base, dentate with blunt or sharp teeth; umbels 2'-4' broad in fruit, the rays 1-3' long; pedicels 2"-5" long; fruit oblong, 3"-$" long, the ribs prominent and somewhat winged; seeds rounded on the back. Along salt marshes. New York to Labrador and the lower St. Lawrence river. Also on the Pacific coast and the shores of northern Europe and Asia. The plant of the New Eng- land coast has more acute leaf-segments than the typical form. Shunis. July-Aug. 36. LILAEOPSIS Greene, Pittonia 2: 192. 1891. [Crantzia Nutt. Gen. i ; 177. 1818. Xot Scop. 1777.] Small creeping glabrous perennial marsh herbs, the leaves reduced to linear terete sep- tate hollow petioles, with simple umbels of white flowers. Bracts of the involucre several, small. Calyx-teeth acute. Petals concave, acute, incurved at the apex. Stylopodium conic. Fruit glabrous, globose, somewhat flattened laterallly. Carpels nearly terete, the dorsal and intermediate ribs filiform, the lateral ones much larger and corky-thickened, the commissural faces each with a corky longitudinal projection: oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed terete. [Greek, resembling the genus Lilaea.] A genus of wide geographic distribution, usually regarded as monotypic. I. Lilaeopsis lineata () Greene. Lilae- opsis. Fig. 3153. Hydrocotyle chinensis L. Sp. PI. 339- 1753 ? Hydrocotyle lineata
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