GENUS 7. 



CARROT FAMILY. 



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7. CEREFOLIUM (Rivin.) Haller, Stirp. Helv. i: 327. 1768. 

 Annuals or biennials, with ternately or pinnately decompound leaves, and compound 

 umbels of white flowers. Involucre none; involucels of few bracts Calyx-teeth obsolete 

 or minute. Apex of the petals inflexed. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit linear, beaked, 

 laterally compressed, smooth. Carpels nearly terete, ribless except at the beak ; oil-tubes 

 none. Seed-face channeled. [Latin ; derivation as in the following genus.] 



A few species, natives of warm and temperate regions of the Old World. Type species : 

 Scandix Cerefolium L. 



i. Cerefolium Cerefolium (L.) Britton. 



Garden Chervil or Beaked-Parsley. 



Fig. 3112. 



Scandix Cerefolium L Sp. PL 368. 1753. 

 Chaerophyllitm sativum Lam. Encycl. i : 684. 1783. 

 Anthriscus Cerefolium Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 41. 1814. 



Annual, glabrous, or finely pubescent above, much 

 branched, ii-2 high. Basal and lower leaves 

 slender-petioled, the upper smaller, nearly sessile, all 

 ternately decompound into small segments ; umbels 

 numerous, rather short-peduncled, 3-6-rayed, the 

 rays divergent, \'-\\' long in fruit; pedicels stout, 

 2"-3" long; bractlets of the involucels linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, about i" long; fruit linear, 3" long, 

 glabrous and ribless, tipped with a ribbed beak of 

 one-third its own length 



Roadsides and woodlands, Quebec and Pennsylvania. 

 Naturalized from Europe. May-June. 



Anthriscus Anthriscus (L.) Karst. (A. vulgaris Pers.) 

 bur-chervil, readily recognized by its short-beaked muri- 

 cate fruit, has been found as a waif in Nova Scotia. 



8. CHAEROPHYLLUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 258. 1753. 

 Herbs, our species annuals, with ternately or pinnately decompound leaves and small 

 compound umbels of white flowers. Involucre none or rarely of 1-2 bracts. Involucels of 

 numerous small bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals inflexed at the apex. Stylopodium 

 small, conic. Fruit oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous or pubescent, flattened laterally. Carpels 

 5-angled, slightly flattened dorsally, the ribs slender, equal, obtuse or wanting; oil-tubes 

 mostly solitary in the intervals. Seed-face channeled. [Greek, pleasant leaf, from the 

 fragrance.] 



About 40 species, natives of the warmer parts of the north temperate zone and northern Africa. 

 Type species : Chaerophyllum sylvestre L. 



Fruit not beaked, its ribs slender, narrower than the intervals between them. i. C. procumbens. 



Fruit beaked, its prominent ribs mostly as broad as the intervals. 2. C. Teinturieri. 



i. Chaerophyllum procumbens (L.) 

 Crantz. Spreading Chervil. Fig. 3113. 



Scandix procumbens L. Sp. PL 257. 1753. 

 C. procumbens Crantz, Class. Umb. 77. 1767. 

 Chaerophyllum procumbens Shortii T. & G. Fl. N. A. 



i : 637. 1840. 

 C. Shortii Bush, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 12 : 59. 1902. 



Much branched, more or less pubescent, slender, 

 spreading, ascending or erect, 6'-2o' high. Lower 

 leaves slender-petioled, ternately decompound,, 

 the divisions ovate, pinnatifid, the ultimate seg- 

 ments obtuse ; upper leaves smaller, nearly sessile ; 

 umbels 2-6-rayed ; rays i'-2' long in fruit ; flow- 

 ers few in the umbellets ; bracts of the involucels 

 ovate ; fruit glabrous or minutely pubescent, 

 oblong or linear-oblong, 2"-2*" long, narrowed 

 or blunt but not beaked 1 at the summit, the ribs 

 narrower than the intervals between them. 



In moist ground, New York and southern Ontario 

 to Michigan, south to North Carolina, Louisiana and 

 Arkansas. April-June. 



