CLASS V. ORDER II.] CH^ROPHILLUM. 407 



leaflets pinnate, with obtuse segments; umbels opposite the leaves; 

 fruit ovate, clothed with incurved prickles, the beak one-third its 

 length ; stigmas nearly sessile. 



English Flora, vol. ii. p. 45. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 138. 

 — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 124. — Scandix Anthriscus, Linn. — English 

 Botany, t. 818. 



Root tapering, with numerous branched fibres. Stem erect, about 

 two feet high, round, smooth, striated, somewhat swollen beneath each 

 joint, branched and leafy. Leaves alternate, thrice pinnated, with 

 long channeled footstalks, finely striated, smooth, except about the 

 joints and the smaller branches, much dilated at the base, and sheath- 

 ing, with a thin white membranous margin, much fringed with fine 

 silky hairs; leaflets a beautiful pale green, ovate oblong, pinnated, 

 with narrow obtuse or acute segments, smooth, except being scattered 

 over sometimes with white hairs, especially on the under side. Umbels 

 on short pedicles from the axis of the upper leaves, the general of 

 aliout six slender mostly equal rays, and the partial of about six short 

 unequal ones. General involucre none, partial of about six lanceolate 

 ones, with a membranous fringed margin. Flowers small, white, 

 nearly equal. Calyx a slender obsolete margin. Petals inversely 

 heart-shaped, with a small inflexed point. Stamens on short Jilaments, 

 with small roundish anthers. Styles very short, scarcely observable. 

 Stigmas small, obtuse. Fruit ovate, clothed with short rigid prickles, 

 with a small incurved point, the beak contracted, furrowed, about one- 

 third the length, and frequently there are three dorsal very slender 

 ridges the whole length of the fruit. Albumen rounded at the back, 

 furrowed in front. 



Habitat. — Waste places, hedges and road sides ; frequent, especially 

 near towns and villages. 



Annual ; flowering in May and June. 



Common Beaked Parsley, or Chervil, has some resemblance in its 

 foliage to the Garden Chervil, for which it has been sometimes gathered 

 in mistake, and it has like it a sweetish aromatic flavour; but its 

 spinous fruit, much more branched stouter stem, and lateral pedun- 

 culated umbels, will readily distinguish it from other species. 



GENUS LXXXII. CH^ROPHY'LLUM.— Linn. Chervil. 



Gen. Char. Calyx an obsolete margin. Petals obcordate, with an 

 inflexed point. F^-tiit contracted at the sides, beaked. Carpels 

 with five very obtuse equal ridges, the lateral ones forming the 

 margins, the commissure with a deep furrow. Channels with 

 single viltce. Albumen roundish, deeply furrowed in front 



