284 UMBELL1FER.E. 



* A. Cerefolium (Garden Chervil) is not a native 

 plant, though sometimes found in the neighbourhood of 

 houses. It may be distinguished 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 conspicuous in autumn by their rich 

 purple hue ; the flowers are white and grow in ter- 

 minal umbels, which droop when in bud ; general bracts 

 either absent or very few, partial bracts several, fringed 

 and deflexed. Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



33. MYRRHIS (Cicely}. 



1. M. ocforata (Sweet Cicely). Mountainous pastures 

 in the North. Remarkable for its sweet and highly 

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

 and hollow; the leaves are 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, an 

 inch long, dark brown, with very sharp ribs, and pos- 

 sesses the flavour of the rest of the plant in a high 

 degree. Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



The foregoing descriptions contain only those umbel- 

 liferous plants which are most commonly to be met with. 

 There are besides these a few others, which are either of 

 unusual occurrence, or have escaped from cultivation; 

 these are : 



Physospernum Cornubiense (Cornish Bladder-seed). 

 An erect, smooth plant, about two feet high, with thrice 



