52 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Myrrhis. 



the specific name. The herbage is often mildewed. Linnaeus 

 asserts that all the flowers are perfect ; which does not accord 

 with Haller's account^ nor with our English specimens. 



3. M. aurea. Tawny-seeded Cicely. 



Seeds ribbed, nearly smooth, coloured. Stem slightly swell- 

 ing, angular, hairy. Leaflets pointed, sharply pinnatifid 

 or cut. General bracteas few ; partial deflexed. 



M. aurea. Spreng. Prodr. 29. 



M, perennis alba minor, foliis hirsutis, Moris, v. 3. 301. sect. 9. 

 t.\0.f.2. 



M. perennis alba minor, foliis hirsutis, semine aureo. Rupp. Jen. 

 ed. Hall. 282. ?.5. 



M. altera parva. Loh. Ic. 734,/. Ger. Em. 1039./. 



Chserophyllum aureum. Linn. Sp. PL 370 ; but not Mant. 356. 

 Willd. v.\.\ 457. Comp. 48. Engl. Bot. v. 30. <. 2 1 03. Hook. 

 Scot. 94. Don H. Br. 207. Jacq. Austr. t, 64. 



Cerefolium n. 749. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 328. 



In the borders of fields in North Britain. 



Between Arbroath and Montrose ; and at Corstorphlne, near 

 Edinburgh. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. June. 



Stem three feet high, much branched, solid, angular, striated, downy 

 with copious, short, deflexed hairs, intermixed with more or less 

 numerous, coarser bristles j the joints more densely hairy, and 

 a little swelled, crowned by the narrow annular base of each 

 common footstalk. Stem-leaves remarkable for their tapering 

 leajlets, with numerous, fine, sharp, parallel segments ; their 

 surfaces hairy or smooth. Umbels erect, of very numerous, 

 smooth, general and partial rays. General bracteas few or none ; 

 partial reflexed, coloured, ovate-lanceolate, with long points. 

 Fl. cream-coloured, slightly irregular ; the barren ones nume- 

 rous, with only globose rudiments of stijles. Fruit in an early 

 state club-shaped ; when ripe linear, crowned with the length- 

 ened spreading stijles, whose tumid bases are somewhat de- 

 pressed, and considerably wrinkled. Seeds linear, convex, of a 

 tawny yellow, each with 3 prominent obtuse ribs, which are 

 often roughish upward, as well as the intermediate spaces. 



4. M. aromat'ica. Broad-leaved Cicely. 



Seeds ribbed, smooth. Styles elongated. Leaflets ovate, 



acute, serrated, undivided. 

 M. aromatica. Spreng. Prodr. 28. 

 M. foliis podagrarise. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 53. 

 Chaerophyllumaromalicum. Linn. Sp. Pl.37\. JFilld.v. 1.1 C54. 



D. Don in Tr. of fVern. Soc. v. 3. 300. Hook. Scot. 94. Jacq. 



Austr. t. 150. 



