Angelica Atropurpu′′rea

[Linn.] Syn. Amer′ican Angelica ; Angelica , Ph. U. S. Hab. North America. Resembles garden angelica, but placed by some botanists in a separate, though allied genus. It is a popular remedy for flatulent colic, indigestion, and cardialgia, in the United States; and is there regarded as tonic, cordial, and aphrodisiac. ANGEL′IC ACID. HC 5 H 7 O 2 . A volatile substance, noticed by L. A. Buchner, jun., in angelica-root. It has a pungent sour smell, and a biting acid taste; is sometimes fluid and oleaginous, and sometimes crystallised in striated prisms. [63] [63] Schmidt’s ‘Jahrb.,’ 1842.