04 FENTAND. DIGYN. 



always near hou.ses, so that it is probably not indigenous, Li^Jitf. 



Arniston woods ; Cliesli and Arlary, Mr. Arnott. Caroline Park, 



Edinb., Mr. GrevlUe. Fl. May. 1/ . 

 Whole plant highly aromatic, 2 f. and more high, stout. Leaves large, 



triply pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, ovato-lanceolate, inciso-serrate. 



Umbels terminal, large. Fr^a^ very large, linear-oblong, with deep 



lines ; ribs somewha' m inged. 

 5. Ch. aureum (tawny -seeded Cow-Parsley), pubescent, stems 



slightly swelling below the joints, leaflets very acuminate in- 



ciso-pinnatifid, seeds coloured fmrowed. E. B. t. 2103. 

 Hab. Fields between Arbroath and Montrose ; also near Corstor- 



phine, Edinb., G.Don. jFZ. June. "If.. 

 Three feet or more high, branched, aromatic. Leaves tripinnate ; the 



leaflets peculiarly attenuated, at least in the upper leaves (for the 



radical ones are more obtuse), which distinguishes this from every 



other British species. 

 f). Ch. aromntiaim {aromatic Cow-Parsley), leaflets ovato-ob- 



long sub-acuminate serrate undivided. Jucq. Austr.t. 150. 



D. Don's Descr. of rare Scot. Plants, p. 7. 

 Hab. Near Guthrie, by the road-side leading from Forfar to Arbroath, 



G. Don. Fl. June. % . 

 Two to three feet high, slightly pubescent below, glabrous above. 



Leaves biternate ; leajiets large, undivided, or rarely with a small 

 lobe near the base, pubescent beneath. — In this, as well as in Ch, 



aureiim, there is sometimes a small general involucre. — Leaves, as 



Persoon observes, resembling those of /Egupod. Foilagraria. Has a 

 heavy aromatic smell. D. Don. 



Gl. IMPERATORIA. 



1. I. Ostrntli'mm{Masterwort). Light/. p. IGS. E.B.t. 13S0. 



Hab. Banks of the Clyde in several places, as Ardencaple, and in the 

 Isle of Bute, near Mountstewart ; but whether indigenous or not 

 is uncertain, Lightf. Near Borthwick castle, Maiigh., and Mr. 

 Shuier. Old wall at Langland house and waste ground near Jack- 

 ton, Glasg., Ure. Edge of woods on the side of (iair Loch, sparing- 

 ly, Mr. Mitrraij. Plantation opposite the house of Black hall. West 

 Lothian ; and at Milnathort, 2 m. N. from Kinross : " a naturalized 

 ])lant," Maugh. Beechwood, opposite Aikenhead, Glasg., Hopk. 

 N.June. %. 



Stem 1 or 1| f. high. Leavesh'iternate ; leaflets large, ovato-lanceolate, 

 sometimes lobed, unequally serrated. Umbel large, dense, white. 



C. Umbels without involucres, rarely general, never partial ones. 

 65. SMYRNIUM. 



1. S. Olusatmm {Alexanders), cauline leaves ternate petiolate 

 serrate. Lightf. p. 168. E. B. t. 230. 



Hab. Upon the sea-coast at Dunglass, on the edge of Berwickshire, 

 Lightf. Sea-shore below the old Castle of Ravensheugh, between 

 Dysart and Kirkcaldy, Dr. Walker. By the side of a rivulet at 

 Kinghornj and Dirleton castle, E.Lothian, Maugh. Near Colzeen 

 castle, Ayrshire, Mr. Murray. Fl. May, June. $ . 



