158 TJilBELLIFEILE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



23 CII^EROPHYL,L,tJ]?I, L. CHERVIL. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit linear or oblong, pointed but not beaked, con- 

 tracted at the sides; the carpels 5-ribbed: inner face of the seed deeply furrowed 

 lengthwise : intervals with single oil-tubes. Leaves ternately decompound; 

 the leaflets lobcd or toothed: involucre scarcely any: involucels many-leaved. 

 Flowers chiefly white. (Name from gOi/TO, to gladden, and (pv\\ov, a leaf, 

 alluding to the agreeable aromatic odor of the foliage.) 



1. C. procuillbcilS, Lam. Stems slender (6' -18'), spreading, a little 

 hairy; lobes of the pinnatih'd leaflets obtuse, oblong ; umbels few-rayed (sessile 

 or ped uncled ); fruit narroAvly oblong, with narrow ribs. Moist copses, New 

 Jersey to Illinois and southward. May, June. 



24. OSITIOUUIltZA, Kaf. SWEET CICELY. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit linear-oblong, angled, tapering downwards into 

 a stalk-like base, contracted at the sides, crowned with the styles ; the carpels 

 with sharp upwardly bristly ribs : inner face of the nearly terete seed with a deep 

 longitudinal channel: oil-tubes none. Perennials, with thick very aromatic 

 roots, and large 2 - 3-tcrnately compound leaves; the leaflets ovate, pinnatih'd- 

 toothcd. Involucre and involucels few-leaved. Flowers white. (Name from 

 6o-p.fjj a scent, and /5ia, a root, in allusion to the anise-like flavor of the latter.; 



1. O. longistylis, DC. (SMOOTHER SWEET CICELY.) Styles slender, 

 m-(irlij as long as the ovary ; leaflets sparingly pubescent or smooth when old, short' 

 pointed, cut-toothed, sometimes lobcd. Rich moist woods, commonest north- 

 ward. Mar, June. Plant 3 high, branching: stem red. 



2. O. brevistylis, DC. (HAIRY SWEET CICELY.) Styles conical, not 

 longer than the breadth of the ovary ; fruit somewhat tapering at the summit ; leaf- 

 let* downy-hairy, taper-pointed, pinnatiftd-cut, Common,. Root less sweet. 



25. CONiUM, L. POISON HEMLOCK. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate, flattened at the sides, the carpels with 5 

 prominent wavy ribs, and no oil-tubes : inner face of the seed with a deep nar- 

 row longitudinal groove. Biennial poisonous herbs, with large decompound 

 leaves. Involucre and involucels 3-5-leaved, the latter 1-sided. Flowers 

 white. (Ktoi/ciov, the Greek name of the Hemlock, by which criminals and 

 philosophers were put to death at Athens.) 



1. C. MACDLATUM, L. Smooth; stem spotted; leaflets lanceolate, pinnati- 

 fid; involucels shorter than the umbellets. Waste places. July. A largo 

 branching herb : the pule green leaves exhale a disagreeable odor when bruised. 

 A virulent narcotico-acrid poison, used in medicine. (Nat. from Eu.) 



26. EtlI,OPIIUS, Nntt. EULOPHUS. 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit ovoid, contracted at the sides and somewhat twin; 

 the carpels smooth, indistinctly ribbed, and with a close row of oil-tubes : inner 

 fact, of the seed longitudinally channelled, the cross-section semilunar. A 



