94 PENTAND . DI G YN. 



always near houses, so that it is probably not indigenous, Light/. 

 Arniston woods ; Cliesh and Arlary, Mr. Arnott. Caroline Park,, 

 Edinb., Mr. Greville. FL May. I/ . 



Whole plant highly aromatic, 2 f. and more high, stout. Leaves large, 

 triply pinnate j leaflets pinnatifid, ovato-lanceolate, inciso-serrate. 

 Umbels terminal, large. Fruit very large, linear-oblong, with dee}) 

 lines j ribs somewhat winged. 



5. Ch. aureum (tauunn -seeded Cow-Parsley] , pubescent, stems 

 slightly swelling below the joints, leaflets very acuminate in- 

 ciso-pinnatifid, seeds coloured furrowed. E. B. t. 2103. 



HAB. Fields between Arbroath and Montrose ; also near Corstor- 



phine, Edinb., G. Don. Fl. June. 'If. . 

 Three feet or more high, branched, aromatic. Leaves tripinnate ; the 



leaflets peculiarly attenuated, at least in the upper leaves (for the 



radical ones are more obtuse), which distinguishes this from every 



other British species. 



6. Ch. aromaticum (aromatic Cow -Parsley), leaflets ovato-oh- 

 long sub -acuminate serrate undivided. Jucq. Austr. t. 150. 

 D. Don's Descr. of rare Scot. Plants, p. 1 . 



HAB Near Guthrie, by the road-side leading from Forfar to Arbroath, 

 G. Don. Fl. June. 7/ . 



Two to three feet high, slightly pubescent below, glabrous above. 

 Leaves biternate 5 leaflets large, undivided, or rarely with a small 

 lobe near the base, pubescent beneath. In this, as well as in Ch. 

 aureum, there is sometimes a small general involucre.' Leaves, as 

 Persoon observes, resembling those of SEgopod. Podagraria. Has a 

 heavy aromatic smell. D. Don. 



64. IMPERATORIA. 



1. I. Ostnitlmim (Masterworl). Light/, p. 168. E. B. t. 1380. 



HAB. Banks of the Clyde in several places, as Ardencaple, and in the 

 Isle of Bute, near Mountstewart; but whether indigenous or not 

 is uncertain, Lightf. Near Borthwick castle, Maugli., and Mr. 

 Shuter. Old wall at Langland house and waste ground near Jack- 

 ton, Glasg., Ure. Edge of woods on the side of Gair Loch, sparing- 

 ly, Mr. Murray. Plantation opposite the house of Black hall, West 

 Lothian ; and at Milnathort, 2 m. N. from Kinross : " a naturalized 

 plant," Maugli. Beechwood, opposite Aikenhead, Glasg., Hopk. 

 FL June. I/ . 



Stem 1 or 1| f. high. Leaves biternate ; leaflets large, ovato-lanceolate, 

 sometimes lobed, unequally serrated. Umbel large, dense, white. 



C. Umbels without involucres, rarely general, never partial ones. 



65. SMYRNIUM. 



1. S. Olusatrum (Alexanders), cauline leaves ternate petiolate 

 serrate. Lightf. p. 168. E. B. t. 230. 



HAB. Upon the sea-coast at Dunglass,, on the edge of Berwickshire, 

 Lightf. Sea-shore below the old Castle of Ravensheugh, between 

 Dysart and Kirkcaldy, Dr. Walker. By the side of a rivulet at 

 Kinghorn; and Dirleton castle, E.Lothian, Maugli. Near Colzeen 

 castle, Ayrshire, Mr. Murray. Fl. May, June. $ . 



