. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 19. ANGELICA L. Sp. PI. 250. 1753. [Aechangelica Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 166. 1814.] Tall erect perennial branching herbs, with compound leaves and large terminal umbels of white flowers (in our species). Involucre none, or of a few small bracts, Involucels of several small bracts, or sometimes wanting. Calyx-teeth obsolete or small. Petals with an inflexed tip. Stylo
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 19. ANGELICA L. Sp. PI. 250. 1753. [Aechangelica Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 166. 1814.] Tall erect perennial branching herbs, with compound leaves and large terminal umbels of white flowers (in our species). Involucre none, or of a few small bracts, Involucels of several small bracts, or sometimes wanting. Calyx-teeth obsolete or small. Petals with an inflexed tip. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit ovate or oval, dorsally compressed, pubescent or glabrous. Dorsal and intermediate ribs prominent, approximate, the lateral ones broadly winged. Oil-tubes solitary, several or numerous in the intervals, 2-10 on the commissural side. Seed-face flat or somewhat concave. [Named for its supposed healing virtues.] About 40 species, natives of the northern hemisphere and New Zealand. Besides the follow- ing, some 18 others occur in the southern and western parts of North America. Type species: Angelica Archangelica L. Umbels glabrous, or nearly so ; leaf-segments acute or acutish. Oil-tubes 1 (rarely 2-3) in the intervals; wings broader than the carpels. r. Oil-tubes numerous and contiguous ; wings narrower than the carpels. 2. A. atropurpurea. Umbels densely tomentose ; leaf-segments obtuse. 3. A. villosa. I. Angelica Curtisii Buckl. Curtis' Angelica. Fig. 3127. A. Curtisii Buckl. Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 173. 1843. Glabrous, or the umbels and upper part of the stem slightly pubescent, 2°-3J° high. Leaves biternate, the divisions quinate or pinnate, the lower long-stalked, the upper mostly reduced to inflated petioles; segments rather thin, sometimes slightly pubescent on the veins beneath, ovate, acute or acuminate, sharply and irregularly dentate or incised, 2'-4' long; umbels 3'-6' broad, 9-25-rayed; rays rather stout, iJ'-3' long; pedicels slend
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