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SPECIES III.— CH^ROPHYLLUM SYLVESTRE. Linn. 



Plate DCXXIV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2852. 



Anthriscns sylvcstiis, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 153. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 185. I). C. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 223. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 22. 



Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 346. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 742, 



Stem erect, stout, equal, branched in the upper part, hollow, 

 furrowed, generally hispid in the lower part. Umbels stalked, 

 terminal ; rays 6 to 16, glabrous. Involucel complete, of 3 to 7 

 linear - lanceolate reflexed ciliated leaves. Cremocarp elliptic- 

 cylindrical, indistinctly beaked, unarmed, smooth ; beak about ^ 

 the length of the rest of the fruit. 



In hedge-banks, meadows, open parts of woods, &c. Very 

 common, and generally distributed, except in the extreme North of 

 Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial, Spring and Summer. 



Koot a thickened tapering tap-root. Stem 2 to 4 feet high. 

 Radical leaves on long stalks, stem-leaves with shorter stalks, 

 with dilated pubescent petioles ; lamina deltoid in outline, some- 

 what ternatcly hi- or tri-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, with acute 

 lanceolate segments. Umbel rays 1 to 2 inches long. Pruit sur- 

 rounded at the base by a ring of hairs, J inch to f inch long, olive, 

 shining, narrowing insensibly into the very short 10-ribbed beak. 

 Plant bright-green, usually slightly hairy, but variable in this 

 respect. 



Dr. J. E. Gray (Seemann's "Journal of Botany," 1863, p. 296) 

 mentions that he finds about Kew two forms of this plant growing 

 together, one with a stout deeply-furrowed angular green stem, the 

 other with a much more slender, less deeply and regularly furrowed 

 purplish stem. 



Anthriscus abortivus, Jorcl. Billot, No. 2851, appears to be a 

 variety or sub-species with leaves less divided, and without the 

 ring of hairs at the base of the fruit : it is not unlikely to occur 

 in upland districts. 



Wild Chervil, Cow-JParsley. 



French, Cerfeuil Sauvage. German, Wald Kerhel. 



Sub-Genus II.— EU-CII/EROPHYLLUM. (Ch^rophtllum, 



Boffm.) 

 Cremocarp attenuated at the apex, but without a distinct beak ; 

 mericarps with 5 filiform ridges ; interstices each with a single vitta. 



