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about 5 reflexed bracts, and afterwards by its smooth, shortly 

 beaked fruit. Hedges ; common. Fl. April to June. Perennial. 



A. cerefolium (Garden Chervil) is not a 

 native plant, though sometimes found in the 

 neighbourhood of houses. It may be distin- 

 guished from the preceding by having only 3 

 partial bracts, lateral umbels, and smooth fruit. 



32. Ch^rophyllum (Chervil) 



1. C. temulentum (Rough Chervil). The 

 only British species ; very common in woods 

 and hedges. The stem is slender, 2-3 feet 

 high, rough with short hairs, spotted with 

 purple, and swollen beneath the joints ; the 

 leaves are twice pinnate, deeply lobed and 

 cut, hairy, often making the plant conspicu- 

 ous in autumn by their rich purple hue ; the 

 flowers are white, and grow in terminal um- 

 bels, which droop when in bud ; general 

 bracts either absent or very few ; partial 

 bracts several, fringed and deflexed. 

 Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



Ch^erophyllum Temu- 

 lentum (Rough Chervil) 



33. Myrrhis (Cicely) 

 1. M. odorata (Sweet Cicely). Remarkable for its sweet and 

 highly aromatic flavour. The stem is 2-3 feet high, furrowed and 



hollow ; the leaves large, thrice pinnate, 

 cut, and slightly downy. The flowers are 

 white, and grow in terminal downy 

 umbels ; bracts partial only, whitish, and 

 finely fringed. The fruit is remarkably 

 large, dark brown, with very sharp ribs, 

 and possesses the flavour of the rest of 

 the plant in a high degree. Mountainous 

 pastures in the north. Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



The foregoing descriptions contain only 

 those umbelliferous plants which are most 

 *^H commonly to be met with. There art 

 besides these a few others, which are 

 either of unusual occurrence or have 

 escaped from cultivation ; these are : 



Physospern nm Cornubiense (Cornish 

 Bladder-seed). An erect, smooth plant 



:ornu- about 2 feet hi g h > with ttrae tern r ate 

 k\-b.ksti (Cornish Bladder-seed) leaves and white flowers, which are fur- 



