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25. EULOPHUS Nutt.; DC. Mon. Omb. 69. //. 2. 1829. 



Perennial slender glabrous branching herbs, from deep tuberous roots, with ternately 

 compound leaves, and long-peduncled compound umbels of white or pink flowers. Invo- 

 lucre generally of i bract, sometimes none. Involucels of several bracts. Calyx-teeth 

 usually prominent. Petals obovate, the tip in flexed. Stylopodium conic. Styles recurved. 

 Fruit glabrous, linear to oblong in our species; ribs filiform, with 1-5 oil-tubes in the inter- 

 vals. Seed-face concave. [Greek, well-plumed; application not apparent.] 



About 5 species, natives of North America. Besides the following, 4 others occur in the western 

 United States. 



i. Eulophus Americanus Xutt. East- 

 ern Eulophus. (Fig. 2675.) 



Eulophus Americanus Nutt. ; DC. Mem. Omb. 69. pi. 

 2. 1829. 



Erect, 3-5 high. Basal and lower leaves 

 large, long-petioled, ternately compound into 

 linear acute or obtusish segments; upper leaves 

 similar, smaller and shorter-petioled; petioles 

 sheathing at the base; umbels terminal, $'-$' 

 broad, the rays 6-12, very slender, 2 / -4 / long; 

 involucre of 1-2 bracts, or none; involuccls of 

 several narrowly lanceolate acuminate bracts; 

 pedicels almost filiform, 4 // -8 // long in fruit; 

 flowers whitish (?); fruit oblong, 2 // -3 // long. 



In dry soil, Ohio and Illinois to Missouri, Tennes- 

 see and Arkansas. July. 



26. ANTHRiSGUS Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 38. 1814. 



Annual or biennial herbs, with tcruately or pinnatcly decompound leaves, and compound 

 umbels of white flowers. Involucre commonly none; involucels of numerous bracts. 

 Calyx-teeth obsolete or minute. Apex of the petals indexed. Stylopodium conic or de- 

 pressed. Fruit linear in our species, beaked, laterally compressed, smooth in our species. 

 Carpels nearly terete, ribless except at the beak; oil-tubes none. Seed-face channeled, 

 [(ireek name of this or some allied plant] 



About 10 species, natives of warm and temperate regions of the Old World. 



i. Anthriscus Cerefdlium (I,-) Hoffm. 



Garden Chervil or Beaked-Parsley. 



(Fig. 2676.) 



Scandix Cerefolium L. Sp. PI. 368. 1753. 

 Chaerobhyllum sativum Lam. Kncycl. i: 684. 1783. 

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



Annual, glabrous, or finely pubescent above, much 

 branched, i)4 -2 high. Basal and lower leaves 

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

 ternately decompound into small segments; umbels 

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

 rays divergent, y 2 '-i l /z' long in fruit; pedicels stout, 

 2 // -3 // long; bractlets of the involuccls linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, about \" long; fruit linear, 

 3" long, glabrous and ribless, tipped with a ribbed 

 beak of one-third its own length. 



Roadsides and woodlands in eastern and southern 

 Pennsylvania. Naturalized from Europe. May-June. 



Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm., Wild Beaked-Parsley, or Wild Chervil, a tall annual with 

 decompound leaves, and glabrous beakless fruit, has been found as a waif on Staten Island, and in 

 ballast about the seaports. 



Anthriscus Anthriscus ( L. ) Karst. ( A. vulgaris Pers. ) Bur-Chervil, readily recognized by its short- 

 beaked muricate fruit, has been found as a waif in Nova Scotia, according to Macoun. 



