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SMYRNIUM. ALEXANDERS. 



S. Olusatrum (common A.) In meadows and waste places, 

 waysides and among ruins, especially near the sea. Plant with a 

 stout, furrowed stem, from 2 to 4 feet high ; lower leaves two or 

 three times, upper ones once tern ate, of a yellowish-green colour, 

 having a broad membranous base. Umbels large, roundish, and 

 many-rayed, on stout footstalks ; flowers small, greenish-yellow. 

 Fruit of 2 nearly round lobes, with prominent ribs, nearly black 

 when ripe. Rock walk. Marychurch road. Paignton road, etc. 

 (E. B. t. 230.) A. or B. v. vi. 



SCANDIX. SHEPHERD'S-NEEDLE. 



S. Pecten (common S., or Venus' s- comb.) In waste places 

 and cornfields, abundant. Plant branching or spreading, gene- 

 rally hairy, from 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves 2 or 3 times 

 pinnate. Umbels irregular, but usually 2- or 3-rayed. Flowers 

 white. Fruit laterally compressed, with a long beak, 3 or 4 

 times as long as the rough fruit, having much the appearance of 

 the tooth of a comb. S. Pecten-Veneris, Linn. (E. B. t. 1397.) 

 A. v.-ix. 



ANTHRISCUS. BEAKED-PARSLEY. 



A. sylvestris (wild B.) One of the commonest Umbellifers 

 in England. Under hedges and along the borders of fields. Stem 

 hairy below, smooth above, slightly swollen beneath the joinings ; 

 leaves twice pinnate. Umbels at first rather drooping, numerous, 

 with 8 or 10 rays. Flowers small and white. Fruit smooth and 

 shining, contracted at the top, with no apparent beak. Frequent ; 

 Torquay, Marychurch, Chudleigh, etc. ChcBrophyllum, Linn. 

 (E. B. t. 752.) P. IV.-YI. 



CHERVIL. 



C. temulentum (rough C.} Hedges and thickets, common. 

 Plant from 2 to 3 feet high, rough with short hairs ; leaves 2 or 

 3 times pinnate, with numerous pinnatifid segments, more or less 

 hairy. Umbels at first drooping, of many rays, covered with 

 bristly hairs. Flowers white. Fruit narrow, flask-shaped, ribbed. 

 Fields and hedges, common. Rock walk. Marychurch road, 

 etc. (E. B. t. 1521.) P. vi. vn. 



