Chaerophyllum. — Anthriscus. 703 
391. (14.) Chaerophyllum Linn. 
Anthricus of some authors partly. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened, linear, rarely 
oblong. Ribs of mericarp 5, obtuse, equal, the lateral one at the 
margin, the intervals groove-like, with 1 oil-tube. Styles elongated. 
Carpophore bifid or bipartite. Albumen deeply grooved along the 
inner face. — Biennial or perennial herbs, with white or yellowish 
flowers, sometimes polygamous. 
A considerable and rather natural genus, widely diffused over the 
northern hemisphere without the Tropics. 
995. Chaerophyllum cerefolium (L.) Crtz. in DC. Prodrom. IV 
(1828), p. 109. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.86. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., Supplem. p. 758. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., 
p- 797 no. 121. — Anthriscus cerefolium Hoffm. Gen. Umbell., p. 41. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 913. — Chaerophyllum sativum Lam. 
Encyclop. I, p.410. — Anthriscus trichosperma Schult. Syst. VI, 
p. 525. — Scandix cerefolium L. Spec. Plant. I, p.368. — Stem 
terete, striate, glabrous or pilose, 60—90 cm high. Radical leaves 
3 or 4 times ternate, segments ovate-pinnatifid, glabrous or pilosely 
pubescent, on long petioles, dilated and sheathing towards base, 
30—60 cm long; upper leaves on short dilated and sheathing 
petioles, smaller. Umbels lateral and terminal, of several primary 
and secondary rays; primary rays about 2 cm long, secondary rays 
4—5 mm long. Leaves of the involucels many, lanceolate, giabrous 
or ciliate; many flowers in the secondary umbels abortive. Petals 
unequal. Fruit smooth or with a few very faint tubercles, 4—5 mm 
long. Vittae about 9 in each mericarp; carpophore bifid at the 
apex or to the middle. Pedicels with a few short caducous hairs 
at the apex, seen at the base of carpophore. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Ramle. — M. p. Maq-ta’ Riis-es-Stibyan. — N.d. N.f. 
N. v. Rarely cultivated and naturalized. 
Local name: maqdtnis frengy (Forsk.). 
Als known from Europe and Sibiria. 
392. (15.) Anthriseus Hoffm. 
Chaerophyllum of some authors partly. 
Calyx-lobes obsolete; petals oval, with a shortly inflected acumen, 
nearly entire, white; stylopodia flat or conical. Fruit ovate-oblong, 
glabrous, with inconspicuous primary ridges, somewhat attenuate at 
the apex; mericarps subterete or somewhat dorsally compressed. 
Vittae slender, often unequal and irregular; carpophore undivided 
