176 UMBELLIFER^. [Ch^erophyllum. 



Fields and waste places from Caithness southd. ; ascends to 1,200 ft. in York- 

 shire; rare in Ireland; Channel Islands; fl. June-July. — Perennial, laxly 

 hairy. Stem 1-3 ft., slender, solid, grooved, leafy, branched. Leaves deltoid, 

 2-pinnate, petioles and peduncles very slender ; leaflets ovate, membranous, 

 pinnatifid, crenate. Umbels lateral, drooping when young ; rays unequal, 

 slender ; bracteoles small, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers small, white. Fruit 

 £ in., ovoid, narrowed upward, not beaked ; styles very short, spreading. — 

 Distrib. Europe, Caucasus, N. Africa. 



20. ANTHRIS'CUS, Eoffm. BEAKED-PARSLEY. 



Annual or biennial, hairy herbs. Leaves deltoid, pinnately or 8-nately. 

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

 bracteoles many, entire ; flowers white, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth 

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

 pressed. Fruit ovoid or oblong, shortly beaked, commissure constricted, 

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

 confined to the smooth or rough upper part ; vitte very slender, solitary 

 in the furrows, or 0. Seed deeply grooved ventral ly. — Distrib. Temp. 

 Europe, Asia, N. Africa, N.W. America; species 10. Etym. diminutive 

 of av6r)p6s, small-flowerin§. 



1. A. vulgaVis, Pers. ; stem glabrous, umbels peduncled leaf-opposed, 

 fruit muricate. Scandix Anthriscus, L. ; Chozrophyllum Anthriscus, Lamk. 

 Hedgebanks and roadsides, N. to Shetland.; rather rare in Ireland ; Channel 



Islands; fl. May-June.— Sparingly hairy. Stem 2-3 ft., branched, leafy, 

 fistular, swollen below the nodes. Leaves 3-pinnate ; leaflets ovate, pin- 

 natifid ; segments short, obtuse. Umbels of unequal rays; bracts 0; 

 bracteoles short, oblong. Flowers minute. Fruit § 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'tris, Hoffm. : stem hairy below, umbels peduncled ter- 

 minal, fruit glabrous. Chcerophyllum sylvestre, L. 



Hedgebanks and woods, N. to Shetland ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; 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, spreading or reflexed, often pink. Flowers 

 white. Fruit J-J in. — Distrib. Europe (Arctic), Caucasus, N. Asia, 

 N. Africa. 



A. Cerefo'lium, Hoffm. ; stem hairy above the nodes, umbels sessile 

 lateral and leaf-opposed, fruit glabrous. Scandix, L. ; Chcerophyllum 

 sativum, Gsertn. Chervil. 

 Waste places, rare ; always an escape from cultivation ; fl. May-July.— Habit 



of A. vulgaris, but stouter, leaflets broader and flowers larger. Fruit J in., 



very narrow.— Distrib. E. Europe, W. Siberia, W. Asia. — Foot reputed 



poisonous. 



