ANGELICA Archangelica.
Garden Angelica.
PENTANDRIA Digynia.
G e n . C h a r . Involucra g en e ra l and p a r tia l. Fruit
ro u n d ish , so lid , w ith 3 w in g s on each side. Cal.
w ith 5 te e th . Flowers re gu la r . Petals incurved.
Styles re fle x ed .
S p e c . C h a r . Terminal leaflet lobed.
S y n . Angelica Archangelica. Linn. Sp. PI. 3 6 o.
Sm. FI. Brit. 3 1 1 . With. 2 9 7 . Hull. ed. 2. 81.
Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 50.
A . sativa. Ger. em. 9 9 9 - D ill, in Raii Syn. 2 0 8 .
-T h E present species of Angelica was admitted into the Fima
Britannica on the authority of Dr. Withering, who found it at
Broadmoore, about seven miles north-west from Birmingham. Its
natural station we believe to be alpine, and, like some other truly
alpine plants, it thrives luxuriantly in the closest parts of London.
Being commonly cultivated for the sake of the stalks, which
when candied make an agreeable sweetmeat, no wonder that it
is in some degree naturalized about Battersea, and similar places.
It flowers at various seasons; most naturally early in summer,
the large, white, resinous root being biennial.
The stem is upright, four or five feet high, round, smooth, leafy,
hollow, striated, somewhat glaucous. Leaves ternate, then pinnate
; leaflets ovato-lanceolate, acute, smooth, cut and serrated,
the odd one three-lobed. Their common footstalk is remarkably
dilated and tumid, clasping the stem. Umbels globose, green,
of many rays. General involucrum of a few linear deciduous
leaves, often wanting; partial of about eight short linear-lanceolate
ones, which occasionally become very large, and serrated. Calyx
minute. Petals ovate, inflexed, pale green. Fruit somewhat
elliptical, compressed, sharply ribbed. The whole herb has a
pungent aromatic flavour, too strong to be pleasant, except when
modified by culinary art.
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