recently discovered in Scotland by Mr. George Don. 339 
4. CHEROPHYLLUM aureum*, 
caule tumidiusculo anguloso subpiloso, foliolis pinnatifidis acutis 
incisis, seminibus coloratis costatis. | 
Ch. aureum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2.370; nec Mant. 356. Jacq: 
Austr. v. 1. 40. t. 64. | 
Cerefolium n. 749. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 328. K 
Myrrhis perennis alba minor, foliis hirsutis, semine aureo. 
Rupp. Jen. ed. Hall. 282. t. 5. 
Found between Arbroath and Montrose, in the borders of 
fields; also at Corstorphine near Edinburgh ; flowering in June. 
This species would scarcely be recognised by the specific name, 
which alludes to.a very slight yellowness, or rather tawniness, in 
the ripe seeds. Linnzus originally confounded it with Chero- 
phyllum hirsutum, from which it differs, even generically accord- 
ing to Haller, in not having furrowed but ribbed seeds. This 
difference escapés my powers of observation. More certain ones 
are to be found in the short soft deflexed pubescence, rarely en- 
tirely wanting, on the stem of our plant, with a few coarse hairs 
occasionally superadded, like those of hirsutum, but more de- 
flexed: in the narrow, pinnatifid, sharp and elongated leaflets: 
and in the less dilated edges of the common footstalks, whose 
very base however, in the lower leaves, is remarkably annular and 
abrupt. The flowers are cream-coloured, with a reddish tinge 
occasionally. "There are often one or two leaves of a general in- 
volucrum : the partial one consists of several ovate, pointed, 
fringed whitish leaflets. Seeds longish, with 3 elevated obtuse 
palish ribs to each. Styles permanent, divaricated. s 
. The description under this name in the Mantissa altera was 
5s Engl. Bot. t. 2103. ad 
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