46 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Scandix. 



white, all uniform, perfect, and generally fertile. Cal entirely 

 wanting. Pet. inversely heart-shaped, scarcely at all unequal. 

 Fruit ovate, tumid, slightly compressed, green, covered with nu- 

 merous, short, ascending, incurved bristles, and tipped with a 

 double, pyramidal, smooth, angular beak, scarcely half its own 

 length, which is crowned by the very short erect styles, whose 

 bases are large and tumid, without any evident floral receptacle. 



The petals are inaccurately represented in Engl. Bot. as if they were 

 inserted at the base, not the summit, of the beak. 



The whole herb has a sweetish aromatic flavour, approaching to 

 the Garden Chervil, to which it is in habit very nearly allied. 



A.fumarioides and iiemorosa of Sprengel are the only unquestion- 

 able species, besides the present, which have fallen in my way. 

 His nodosa, Scandix nodosa of Linnseus, has no traces of a beak, 

 and would be a Torilis, as Gisrtner makes it, but for the want 

 of a calyx. 



143. SCANDIX. ShepherdVneedle. 



Linn. Gen. \ 42. Juss. 220. Fl.Br.323. Spreng.Prodr. 29. Tourn. 

 t.\73. Gccrtn.t.S5. 



Chserophyllum. Lam. t.20\.f.6. 



Fl, separated ; the innermost barren. Cal. none. Pet. un- 

 equal, undivided, tapering at the base, spreading. Filam. 

 thread-shaped, spreading, the length of the corolla. Anth. 

 roundish. Genn. inferior, oblong, somewhat compressed, 

 more or less rough, with close hairs. Sti/les spreading, 

 short, finally erect, permanent, swelled at the base. 

 Stigmas simple ; in the barren fl. obtuse. Fj-uit rilabed, 

 somewhat bristly, elliptic-oblong, with a straight, linear, 

 flat, bristly beak, five times its own length, crowned with 

 the permanent, enlarged, 5-lobed, coloured receptacle of 

 the flower, surrounding the base of the styles. 



Annual herbs, with, more or less radiant, white Jlowers. 

 Leaves finely subdivided. Umbels either simple, solitary 

 or in pairs, or regularly compound, without general brae- 

 teas. Partial bracteas several, oval, divided or irregu- 

 larly cut, with a membranous fringed margin, all con- 

 siderably longer than the very short flower-stalks. Petals 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, inflexed ; or obovate; obtuse, and 

 spreading ; the outermost one, of the marginal Jlowers, 

 sometimes very large and radiant. 



1. S. Pecten- Veneris. Common Shepherd's-needle. 



Venus's Comb ; or Needle Chervil. 

 Fruit nearly smooth, with a bristly-edged beak. Umbek 



