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UMBELLIFEILE. [Myrrh 



Linn. — E. Bot. t. 12G8. — Charophyllum sativum, E. Fl. v. ii. p. 



48. 



Hedges and waste places, probably the outcast of gardens. Fl. July. 

 0. — Stem slender, one foot and a half to two feet high. Leaves pale 

 yellow green, delicate. Umbels sessile, lateral, of few rays, pubescent. 

 Partial involucres of few leaves, about three, unilateral, linear. Um- 

 billules small. Fruit large, perfectly glabrous, linear, tapering up- 

 wards. Known as a salad and pot-herb under the name of Garden 

 Chervil. 



* * Carpels muricated. 



3. A. vulgaris, Pers. Common Bealted-Parslpy. Stem 

 smooth ; leaves ternately decompound, the segments obtuse ; um- 

 bels opposite the leaves ; fruit ovately conical, hispid, about 

 twice as long as the glabrous beak. Br. Fl. I. p. J31. E. Fl. v. 

 ii. p. 45. — Scandix Anthriscus, E. Bot. t. 818. 



Waste places, by road-sides, especially near towns and villages, fre- 

 quent. Fl. May, June. ©. — Two feet or more high, swelling under 

 each joint. Leaves slightly hairy. Partial tanbels small, with small 

 involucres. Fruit rather large, with a distinct furrow on each side 

 which extends to the beak, covered with hooked bristles. 



23. Scandix. Linn. Shepherd's-Needle. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obovate, with an inflexed point. Fruit 

 laterally compressed, with a very long beak. Carpels with 

 five obtuse equal ridges, the lateral ones marginal. Interstices 

 without ridges, or obsolete vitt&. Seed tereti-convex, with 

 a deep furrow in front. — Universal involucre 0, or of few 

 leaves, partial of 5 — 7 leaves. — Name from axeiv, to prick, be- 

 cause of the sharp and long points to the seeds. 



Pentandria. Digynia. 



1. S. Pecten, Linn. Needle Chervil, Venus' Comb, or Shepherd's 

 Needle. Fruit roughish ; leaflets cut into many linear short seg- 

 ments. Br. Fl. l.p. 131. E. Fl.v. ii.p. 48. E. Bot. t. 1386. 



Corn fields, abundant. Fl. June, July. 0. — Stem 4 — 6 inches 

 to a foot high, roughish. Leaves triply pinnate. Umbels of very few 

 rays, two to three. Partial involucres pinnatifid or bipinnatifid. 

 Fruit of singular appearance, and very large in proportion to the size 

 of the plant and of the flower3 that produce it. 



24. Myrkhis. Tourn. Cicely. 



Cah/x obsolete. Petals obcordate with an inflexed point. Fruit 

 laterally compressed. Seed with its sides involute, covered 

 by a pericarj), formed of two membranes, the exterior having 

 five equal, acutely carinated ridges, hollow within, closely ad- 

 nate to the interior. Vittie none. — Universal involucre 0, 

 partial of many leaves. — Name derived perhaps from Mytrha, 



