Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Erythea a Journal of Botany, West American and General, 1897, Vol. 5
Peucedanum erosum. Acaulescent, glabrous; peduncle stout ish, 15 - 2 feet high; leaves, exclusive of the petiole, about 6 or 7 inches long, pinnately dissected into linear or oblong segments 3 - 4 or 5 lines long; involucre none; bractlets of the involucel oblong linear, 2 - 3% lines long, 3-dentate (sometimes 4-dentate); rays very unequal, 12 - 4% inches long; pedicels 1 - 15 lines long; ?owers unknown; fruit large, elliptic-oblong, 6 lines long, the wing equal ing or exceeding the body in breadth, the margin all around erose or denticulate; oil tubes none on the face or back; ribs distinct, filiform.
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