. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. UMBELLIFEKAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 621 perennial herb, with branched stems, large bipinnate leaves with rhombic- obovate and compound conspicuously involucrate umbels. (Name said to be a corruption of Ligusticiim.) 1. L. okficinIlk (L.) Koch. Essentially glabrous ; leaflets coarsely toothed toward the apex, entire at the cuneate base. (L. Levisticum Karst.)—Culti- vated for the aromatic qualities especially of its seeds, and now occasionally found as
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. UMBELLIFEKAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 621 perennial herb, with branched stems, large bipinnate leaves with rhombic- obovate and compound conspicuously involucrate umbels. (Name said to be a corruption of Ligusticiim.) 1. L. okficinIlk (L.) Koch. Essentially glabrous ; leaflets coarsely toothed toward the apex, entire at the cuneate base. (L. Levisticum Karst.)—Culti- vated for the aromatic qualities especially of its seeds, and now occasionally found as a local escape. (Introd. from s. Eu.) 39. ANETHUM [Tourn.] L. Dill Petals yellow. Fruit elliptical, flattened dorsally, the lateral ribs winged. Involucre and involucels none. —Slender caulescent annuals with finely divided leaves, and compound umbels. ("Ai/rjOop, ancient Greek name of the dill, thought to come from ILSeiv, to burn, in allusion to the pungent seeds.) 1. A. GRAvioLENs L. Erect, glabrous, usually branched, 3-10 dm. high: leaves finely dissected, fennel-like. — Thoroughly established at Bridgeport, Ct. CEames), and casual on waste ground, etc., elsewhere. (Introd. from Eu.) 40. HERACLEUM L. Cow Parsnip Fruit obovate, as in Pastinaca, but with a thick conical stylopodium, and the conspicuous obclavate oil-tubes extending scarcely below the middle. —Tall stout perennials, with large compound leaves, broad umbels, deciduous involucre, and many-leaved involucels, white or purplish flowers, and obcordate petals, the outer ones commonly larger and 2-cleft. (Dedicated to Hercules.) 1. H. lanatum Michx. Woolly; stem grooved, m. high ; leaves ternate; leaflets broad, irregularly cut-toothed. — Wet ground, Nfd. to the Pacific, and southw. to N. C, Ky., and Kan. June. Fig. 839. 2. H. Sphondylium L. Spreading-pubescent and some- what scabrous; leaves pinnate; leaflets 3-7, coarsely and rather bluntly toothed. — Casual on waste land, etc., chiefly about
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