The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovate or oblong, flattened laterally;
stylopodium conical; prickles barbed or hooked; seed-face deeply
sulcate. Otherwise as Daucus.--Our species annual. (The ancient Greek
name.)
C. NODÒSA, Hudson. Decumbent, branching only at base, stems 1--2° long,
retrorsely hispid; umbels naked, opposite the leaves and nearly sessile,
of 2 or 3 very short rays.--Md., Iowa, and southward. (Nat. from Eu.)
C. ANTHRÍSCUS, Hudson, has 1--2-pinnate leaves with broad leaflets, and
more regularly compounded umbels.--Ohio, etc. (Nat. from Eu.)
3. ANGÉLICA, L.
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit strongly flattened dorsally; primary ribs
very prominent, the laterals extended into broad distinct wings, forming
a double-winged margin to the fruit; oil-tubes one to several in the
intervals or indefinite, 2 to 10 on the commissure.--Stout perennials,
with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, large terminal umbels,
scanty or no involucres, small many-leaved involucels, and white or
greenish flowers. (Named _angelic_ from its cordial and medicinal
properties.)
[*] _Seed adherent to the pericarp; oil-tubes one to several in the
intervals; uppermost leaves mostly reduced to large inflated petioles._
1. A. Curtísii, Buckley. Glabrous; leaves twice ternate or the divisions
quinate; _leaflets thin_, ovate-lanceolate (_1--3´ broad), sharply and
irregularly toothed; fruit glabrous_, 1½--3´´ broad; oil-tubes mostly
one in the intervals (sometimes 2 or 3).--Along the Alleghanies from
Penn. to N. C. Aug.
2. A. hirsùta, Muhl. _Pubescent above_; leaves twice pinnately or
ternately divided; _leaflets thickish_, lanceolate to oblong (_5--10´´
broad), serrate; fruit pubescent_, 2´´ broad; oil-tubes 3--6 in the
intervals. (Archangelica hirsuta, _Torr. & Gray_.)--Dry ground, Conn. to
Minn., Tenn., and Fla. July.
[*][*] _Seed loose; oil-tubes indefinite (25--30); upper petioles not so
prominent._
3. A. atropurpùrea, L. Very stout, glabrous throughout, with dark purple
stem; leaves 2--3-ternately divided, the pinnate segments of 5--7
lanceolate to ovate leaflets (1--1½´ broad), sharply mucronate-serrate.
(Archangelica atropurpurea, _Hoffm._)--River-banks, Lab. to Del., Ill.
and Minn. June.
4. CONIOSELÌNUM, Fisch. HEMLOCK-PARSLEY.
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Stylopodium slightly conical. Fruit oval,
flattened dorsally, glabrous, the dorsal ribs very prominent, the
lateral ones extended into broad wings; oil-tubes 1--4 in the intervals,
4--8 on the commissure; seed slightly concave on the inner face.--Tall
slender glabrous perennial, with finely 2--3-pinnately compound leaves,
few-leaved involucre or none, involucels of elongated linear-setaceous
bractlets, and white flowers. (Compounded of _Conium_ and _Selinum_,
from its resemblance to these genera.)
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