AMMIACEAE 969 
mm. e p white, obovate, 1.5-2 mm. long: fruit linear-subulate, 8—10 
mm. long, shining, s slender -beaked.— — (CHERVIL. ar plaees and roadsides, 
various provinces, La. to Tenn., Ont., and Pa.—Nat. of Eu.—Spr. 
8. CHAEROPHYLLUM [Tourn.] L. Annual herbs. Leaf-blades ter- 
nately hu akan the segments narrow. Umbels Ls compound. In- 
ona of 2 bracts, or usually wanting. Involucels of Pra small 
raets. RON as Petals pees usually oc inflexed at the apex. 
Fruit elongate: carpels 5-angled, the angles equally ribbed: oil- cre solitary 
in the intervals and 2 in the inner na About 40 = i. mostly, of 
the ` warmer parts of the north temperate zone. Spr.—CHERVIL 
Fruit sometimes contracted below the apex, but beakless: DUM glabrous. 
e less than e mm. broad, constricted below the apex 1. C. UCM ICI 
Fruit fully . broad, not nd below the apex. 2. C. Shortéi 
Fruit "baked" or DANG owed to the apex: plants more or less 
t. 
Fruit with the cay narrower than the intervals. 
Fru T i 3. C. dasycarpum. 
Fruit l 4. C. floridanum. 
Fruit id. RET ribs broader than the intervals. 5. C. Teinturieri. 
1. C. procumbens (L.) Crantz. Stem weak, deeumbent or spreading, 1-5 dm 
long, simple or spa pean) branched: umbels few- -rayed, peduncled or nearly ses- 
sile: Dei els els sometimes 8 mm. long, lax an 
spreading: fruit M about 8 mm. long, 
te 
CHERVIL en woods an damp thickets 
various provinces, Ala. to Ark., Kans., 
and N..Y. 
2. C. Shortii (T. & G.) Bush. Stem 2-5 
J 
dm. Nr FUB A or decumbent, often 
branched: umbels few-rayed, sessile or . 
AE S fruit oblong, 5-6 mm. long, not ! 
eontraeted below the apex, the ribs narrower ! 
than the intervals. M i 
various provinces, Tenn. to Va. 
3. C. dasycarpum Nutt. Stem erect, 2-6 dm. tall, ree umbels sessile 
Or Ead e the rays ascen ding or spreadin , 9—5 em. long: fruit nar- 
pubes 
ong, p cent, beaked, the ribs prominent, pio er than the 
und inside: and thickets, Coastal Plain, Ala. to Tex. 
4. spud uae edu: i Rose) Bush. dnd kg nd dm. tall, glabrous 
or somewhat pub mbels peduncled, the s 2- 5 em. long: fruit nar- 
, 7 mm. long, rue the beak one-fourth or dpi -fifth as 8 long as the body. 
Woods, Coastal Plein, Fla. to S. C.; (also in Mo.?). 
5. C. Teinturiéri Hook. Stem erect, 2-7 dm. tall, more or less branched: 
m sessile or short-peduncled: rays 2-3, 2— 5 em. long: fruit narrow, 6-7 
. long, beaked, glabrous or nearly so, the ribs prominent, broader than the 
mp * Thickets, eedar-glades, waste-places, and roadsides, various prov- 
inces, Fla. to Tex., Ky., and Va. 
9. DERINGA Adans. Perennial herbs with fibrous roots. Leaf-blades 
3-foliolate. Umbels irregular, compound. Involucres and involucels wanting. 
