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SPECIES IV.-CH^ROPHYLLUM TEMULUM. Linn. 



Plate DCXXV. 



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

 C. tenmlentum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1521. 

 Myrrhis temulenta, Sin. Eng. Fl. Vol. II. p. 51. 



Stem erect, solid, ratlier stout, branched in the upper part, 

 slightly thickened beneath the nodes, striate, hairy, blotched with 

 purple. Umbels stalked, terminal rays 6 to 16, hairy. Involucels 

 complete, of 5 to 8 lanceolate-acuminate ciliated spreading reflexed 

 leaves. Petals glabrous. Cremocarp sub-cylindrical, slightly at- 

 tenuated towards the apex ; columella split nearly halfway down ; 

 mericarps each with 5 thick blunt ridges ; beak none. Styles slightly 

 recurved, as long as the stylopods. 



In hedge-banks and borders of fields and waste places. Com- 

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

 Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Koot slender, tapering. Stem 1 to 4 feet high. Leaves deltoid 

 in outline, bipinnate, with the leaflets deeply pinnatilid. Umbel 

 rays 1 to 2 inches long. Cremocarp J inch long, blackish-brown, 

 with the ridges paler. Plant dull-green, sparingly hairy. 



This and Conium maculatum arc the only two British umbellates 

 which have the stem blotched with purple. 



lloxigli Chervil. 



French, Cerfeuil Penche. German, Betciubender Kiilherkrojif. 



GENUS XXXIIL—M. Y R R H I S. Toiimef. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate, notched, with an inflexed 

 lobe. Cremocarp elliptical-ovoid, slightly laterally compressed, 

 smooth, pointed at the apex but not prolonged into a beak; colu- 

 \)iella free, 2-cleft at the apex ; mericarps with 5 very prominent 

 sharply-keeled hollow ribs ; interstices without vittse. Albumen 

 of the seed w^ith a deep furrow on the face next the columella. 

 Involucre none. 



Herbs with ternate - pinnately decompound leaves and large 

 compound umbels of white slightly radiant flowers, central flowers 

 of each umbellule male. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from jxvnov {muron), perfume, or f.ivf>pa 

 (murra), myrrh, or possibly from the Hebrew word mara, bitter. 

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