1C2 r.MUKLLIFKH.J-:. [ScAXinx. 



bracteoles many, green, sometimes leafy at the point. Flowers very 

 irregular. Fruit 1-3 in., very slender, scabrid ; styles very short. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia "to N.W. India. 



19. CHJEROPHYL'LUM, /.. CHERVIL. 



Herbs, often hairy. Leaves pinnately- rarely 3-nately decompound. 

 Umbels compound, many -rayed ; bracts 1-2 or ; bracteoles many ; 

 (lowers white, rarely yellow, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth subulate or 0. 

 Petals with a long or short inflexed point. JJi.ik-Job<x small. Fruit oblong 

 or linear, hardly beaked, laterally compressed, constricted at the com- 

 missure, carpophore undivided or 2-fid ; caq>els subterete, primary ridges 

 equal, obtuse ; vittse solitary in the interstices. Seed deeply grooved 

 in front. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia, N. America ; species 30. 

 ETYM. \alpa> and <j>v\\ov, from the agreeable odour of the leaf. 



1. C. tem'ulum, L. ; stem swollen below the nodes purple-spotted, 

 fruit glabrous, bracteoles reflexed. C. temulentum, Sm. 

 Fields and waste places from Moray and Ross southwards; ascending to 

 1.200 ft. in Yorkshire; very rare in Ireland; fl. June-July. Perennial, 

 laxly hairy. Stem 1-3 ft., slender, solid, grooved, leafy, branched. /,"' x 

 deltoid, - 2-pinuate, petioles and peduncles very slender ; leaflets ovate, 

 membranous, pinnatifid, crenate. Umbels lateral, drooping when young ; 

 rays unequal, slender ; bracts ; bracteoles small oblong-lanceolate ; (lowers 

 small, white. Fruit in., ovoid, narrowed into a slender beak ; styles very 

 short, spreading. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa. 



2O. ANTHRIS'CUS, Hoffm. BEAKED-PARSLEY. 

 Annual or biennial, hairy herbs. Leaves deltoid, pinnately or 3-nately 

 decompound. Umbels compound ; nodding when young ; bracts 1, 2, or ; 

 bracteoles many, entire; flowers white, often polygamous. Cal)i.i'-tnih 

 minute or 0. Petals with an inflexed point. Disk-lobes conical or de- 

 ju-e.-sed. Fruit ovoid or oblong, shortly beaked, commissure constrieted, 

 rarpophore undivided or 2-fid ; carpels sub- or ^-terete, primary ridges 

 routined to the smooth or rough upper part ; vittse very slender, 

 Military in the interstices, or 0. Seed deeply grooved in front. Disrr.ir.. 

 Temp. Europe, Asia, N. Africa, N.W. America; species 10. ETY.M. 

 unknown. 



1. A. vulga'ris, Pers. ; stem glabrous, umbels peduncled leaf-opposed, 

 fruit hispid. Scandix Anthriscus, L. : Ohcerojjhyllum, Lamk. 

 Hedgebanks and roadsides, rather rare in Ireland ; fl. May-June. Sparingly 



hairy. Stem 2-3 ft., branched, leafy, fistular, swollen below the nodes. 

 L n'-i.s 3-pinnate ; leaflets ovate, pinnatifid ; segments short, obtuse. r// /.< 

 of unequal rays ; bracts ; bracteoles short, oblong ; flowers minute. /'/.' 

 in., ovoid, muricate, beak short glabrous, pedicel with a ring of hairs at 

 the tip; styles very short. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia. 

 Formerly cultivated as a pot-herb. 



2. A. sylves'trls, Hoffm. ; stem hairy below, umbels peduncled ter- 

 minal, fruit glabrous. Chcerophyllum syhestre, L. 



Hedgebanks and woods ; fl. April-June. Hairy. Stem 2-3 ft., stout, erect, 

 leafy, fistular, furrowed. Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, ovate, 

 coarsely serrate. Bracts ; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, green, 



