176 UMBELLIFERsE. [CMROPHYLLUM. 



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, bran3hed. 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-Ian ceol vte. flowers small, white, fruit 

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

 DISTRIB. Europe, Caucasus, N. Africa. 



2O. ANTHRIS'CUS, Ho/m. BEAKED-PARSLEY. 



Annual or biennial, hairy herbs. Leaves deltoid, pinnately or 3-nately 

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

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

 minute or 0. Petal* 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 ; vittae very slender, solitary 

 in the furrows, or 0. Seed deeply grooved ventrally. DISTRIB. 'Temp. 

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

 of avdripos, small-flowering. 



1. A. vulga'ris, Pers. ; stem glabrous, umbels peduncled leaf-opposed, 

 fruit muricate. Scandix Anthriscus, L. ; ChcerophyllumAnthriscus, 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 ; 

 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, Hoffin. \ stem hairy below, umbels peduncled ter- 

 minal, fruit glabrous. Cheer ophyllum 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-pirmate ; 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, Hoffin. ; 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. vulffaris, but stouter, leaflets broader and flowers larger. Fruit |in., 



very narrow. DISTRIB. E. Europe, W. Siberia, W. Asia,. Hoot reputed 



poisonous. 



