UMBELLIFER^ 133 



hirsutumy L. ( Villarsii, Koch) ; petals completely ciliate, 

 stem very hairy; Alps, Jura, Vosges, Dauphiny. C. 

 Cicutariuy Vill.; flowers white or pink, petals ciliate all 

 round, stem glabrous ; damp meadows ; Switzerland, 

 local. 



25. Anthriscus, L. 



Leaves decompound ; bracts of general involucre few or 

 O, of partial involucre many ; calyx-teeth minute or o ; fruit 

 with a short beak, scarcely ribbed ; vittae solitary or o. 



A. Umbels with 8-15 rays: — A. sylvestris, Hoffm.; 

 umbels on long stalks, leaves hairy, fruit glabrous; 

 hedge-rows, very coijimon. A. alpina, Jord.; leaves 

 doubly pinnatifid, leaflets with linear segments; rocky, 

 very rare ; Bern. A. iiitida, Gark.; leaves twice ternately 

 pinnatifid, middle flowers of umbels barren ; rare ; Jura, 

 Saleve. 



B. Umbels with 2-5 rays: — A. vulgaris, Pers.; leaves 

 ter-pinnate, stem glabrous, flowers minute, fruit with 

 hooked bristles ; road-sides, Western and Southern Swit- 

 zerland, rare. A. Cerefoliuniy Hoffm., Chervil; umbels 

 sessile, stem hairy, fruit glabrous; rubbish-heaps. A. 

 fumarioides, Spreng.; stem, leaves, and leaf-stalks ashen- 

 grey, covered with silky hairs, ultimate segments of leaves 

 very narrow ; Carinthia, very rare. 



Tribe SESELINE.E. — Fruit globose or ovoid, not com- 

 pressed laterally; commissure broad, lateral ridges 

 usually distinct. Genera 26-44. 



26. Seseli, L. 

 Bracts of general involucre various, of partial many, 

 entire ; flowers white ; petals with a long inflexed point, 



