Ligusticum
(named from the country Liguria, where the officinal Lovage, L. Levisticum, abounds). ORD. Umbelliferae. A genus comprising about a score species of glabrous perennial herbs, dispersed over the Northern hemisphere. Flowers in compound umbels, often many-rayed; petals white, or rarely yellowish-white. Fruit ovate or oblong. Leaves pinnately or ternato-pinnately decompound. L. scoticum is sometimes employed as a potherb. It will grow in any ordinary soil, but is of no horticultural value.
L. scoticum (Scotch). Lovage. fl., umbels of twelve to twenty rays, with a general involucre of two or three narrow bracts and more numerous ones to the partial umbels. Summer. l., lower ones on long stalks, deeply divided into three, each branch bearing three segments or one deeply three-lobed segment. Stem 1ft. to 2ft. high. Britain, &c.