recently discovered in Scotland by Mr, George Don. 339 



4. Ch;ekophyllum aureum*, 



caule tumidiusculo anguloso subpiloso, foliolis pinnatifidis acutis 

 incisis, seminibus coloratis costatis. 



Ch. aureutn, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 370; nee Mant. 356. Jacq. 

 Austr. V. 1. 40. /. 64. 



Cercfolium n. 749- Hall. Hist. v. 1. 328. 



Myrrhis perennis alba minor, foliis hirsutis, seraine aureo. 

 Rupp. Jen. ed. Hall. 282. t. 5. 



Found between Arbroath and Montrose, in the borders of 

 fields; also at Corstorphine near Edinburgh; flowering in June. 

 This species would scarcely be recognised by the specific name, 

 which alludes to a very slight yellowness, or rather tawniness, in 

 the ripe seeds. Linnreus originally confounded it with Chcero- 

 phyllum hirsutum, from which it differs, even generically accord- 

 ing to Haller, in not having furrowed but ribbed seeds. This 

 difference escapes my powers of observation. More certain ones 

 are to be found in the short soft deflexed pubescence, rarely en- 

 tirely wanting, on the stem of our plant, with a few coarse hairs 

 occasionally superadded, like those of hirsutum, but more de- 

 flexed : in the narrow, pinnatifid, sharp and elongated leaflets : 

 and in the less dilated edges of the common footstalks, whose 

 very base however, in the lower leaves, is remarkably annular and 

 abrupt. The flowers are cream-coloured, with a reddish tinge 

 occasionally. There are often one or two leaves of a general in- 

 volucrum : the partial one consists of several ovate, pointed, 

 fringed whitish leaflets. Seeds longish, with 3 elevated obtuse 

 palish ribs to each. Styles permanent, divaricated. 



The description under this name in the Mantissa altera was 



* Engl. Bol. t. 2103. 



made 



