Ant/triscus.'] UMBELLIFERjE. 125 



(VII. SCANDIX TRIBE.) 

 21. CH^EROPHYLLUM. Linn. Chervil. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate, with an inflexed point. 

 Fruit laterally compressed, or contracted. Carpels with five 

 obtuse, equal ridges, of which the lateral ones are marginal, 

 with a deep furrow on the inner face of the carpels. Inter- 

 stices with single vittce. Seed tereti-convex, furrowed in front. 

 Universal involucre 0, or of few leaves, partial of many 

 leaves. Differs from all the Ammi Tribe in the deep furrow 

 in front of each carpel. Name from X" 4 / 7 ^ to rejoice, and 

 <fiv\\ov, a leaf: hence our word Chervil, applied to the culti- 

 vated AnthrisciLS Cerefolium, whose leaves have an agreeable 

 smell. JPentandria. Digynia. 



1. C. temulentum, Linn. Rough Chervil. Fruit with obtuse 

 ribs ; stem rough, (spotted) swelling below each joint ; partial 

 involucres reflexed. Br. Fl. 1. p. 130. E. BoL t. 1521. 

 ftlyrrhis temulenta, E. FL r. ii. p. 51. 



Hedges and bushy places, common. FL June, July. 1. Three 

 feet or more high, rough with hairs. Leaves doubly pinnate ; leaflets 

 pinnatifid or inciso-lobate. Fruit linear oblong, striated. Umbels at 

 first drooping. 



22. ANTHRISCUS. Pers. Beaked-Parsley. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate with an inflexed, generally 

 short, point. Fruit contracted on the side, rostrate. Carpels 

 subterete, without ridges, the beak alone with five ridges. Seed 

 tereti-convex, deeply furrowed in front. Universal involucre 

 none, partial of many leaves. Name given by Pliny to a plant 

 allied probably to this genus, but whose derivation we are 

 ignorant of. Pentandria. Digynia. 



jjc Carpels smooth, 



1. A. si/lcestris, Koch. Wild Beaked- Par sky. Umbels ter- 

 minal, stalked; stem a little swelling below each joint, glabrous. 

 Br. Fl. 1. p. 131. Chcerophyllum sylvestre, Linn. E. FL v. ii. 

 p. 48. E. Bot. t. 752. 



Under hedges and borders of fields, frequent. Fl. April June. 

 1(1. Three feet or more high, branched. Leaves triply pinnate ; 

 Itaflets ovato-lanceolate, deeply cut. Umbels at first slightly drooping. 

 Partial involucres of several ovato-lanceolate leaves. Fruit linear 

 oblong, with a much less evident beak than in A. Get efolium. This 

 beak, alone, is marked with a few ribs. 



2. A. Cerefolium, Koch. Garden Beaked- Parsley. Umbels 

 lateral, sessile ; leaves tripartite, decompound; leaflets ovate, pin- 

 iiatifid, segments obtuse. Br, Fl. 1 . p. 1 31. Scandix Cerefolium, 



