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peppei', exceed all other sallads by many degrees, both in pleasantnesse of taste, 

 sweetnesse of smell, and wholesomenesse for the cold and feeble stomacke. 



" Tlie roots are likewise most excellent in a sallad ; if thay be boiled and after- 

 wards dressed as the cunning cooke knoweth how better than myselfe ; notwith- 

 standing I use to eat them with oile and vineger, being first boiled ; which is very 

 good for old people that are dull and without courage ; it rcjoiceth and comforteth the 

 heart, and increaseth their strength." 



SPECIES IT— CHiEROPHYLLUM SATIVUM. Lmi. 



Plate DCXXIII. 



Anthriscus Cerefolium, Iloffm. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v, p. 152. Hook. & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 185. D. C. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 223. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. 



p. 22. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 347. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. I. p. 741. 

 Scandix Anthriscus, Linn. Sm. Eug. Bot. No. 1268. 



Stem erect, weak, nearly equal, slightly branched throughout, 

 liollow, striate, glabrous. Umbels subsessile or very snortly 

 stalked, mostly opposite the leaves ; rays 3 to 5, pubescent. Invo- 

 lucel dimidiate, of 2 or 3 linear - lanceolate ciliated spreading- 

 reflexed leaves. Cremocarp sub-cylindrical, unarmed, finely sha- 

 greened, beak about half the length of the rest of the fruit. 



In waste ground and hedges. Rare, and no doubt always 

 escaped from cultivation, and not permanent in its stations. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Annual or Biennial. Summer. 



Extremely like C. Anthriscus, but with the main stem stouter, 

 the lateral umbels generally subsessile, the ultimate leaflets broader 

 and less deeply divided, the flowers larger. Umbels nearly sessile, 

 with hairy rays and dimidiate involucels. The fruit is very difl'erent, 

 not surrounded by a ring of bristly hairs at the base, dusky, f to 

 \ inch long, glabrous, without any spines, with the beak paler, much 

 longer in proportion, the stylopods and styles much longer. 



Garden Chervil. 



French, Cerfeuil Anthrisque. German, Gemeiner Kerhel. 



This is perhaps the most generally known of all our wild umbelliferous plants, 

 covering with its finely divided hairy foliage many of our neglected hedge-banks and 

 field borders. The leaves have a sweetish aromatic taste, and might be employed as a 

 green vegetable ; but the roots are said to be poisonous : cases are mentioned of fatal 

 results following the partaking of it. The stems and leaves yield a beautiful but not 

 very permanent green dye. 



Gerarde tells us that Pliny says — " this is that herbe which Aristoj^hanes objected 

 in sport to the poet Euripides, that his mother was wont to sell no right potherbe 

 but scandix, or shepheard's needle." By this name the Wild Chervil was known in 

 olden times. 



