166 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Genus I.— ANTHRISCUS. Eoffm. 



Cremocarp with the ridges obsolete and without vittse, termi- 

 nating in a short beak on which the ridges are apparent. 



SPECIES I.-CH TROPHY LLUM ANTHRISCUS. m.aL 



Plate DCXXII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 787. 



Anthriscus vulgaris, Pers. Bab. Mau. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 152. Book, k Am. Brit. 



EL p. 185. £>. G. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 224. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 22. 



Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 347. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. L 



p. 741. 

 Scandix Anthriscus, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 818. 



Stem ascending, weak, slightly thickened below the nodes, 

 branched throughout but especially at the base, hollow, striate, 

 glabrous. Umbels shortly stalked, opposite the leaves. Rays 3 to 

 6, glabrous. Involucel complete, of 4 or 5 linear-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate ciliated spreading leaves. Cremocarp lanceolate-ovoid, with 

 short spreading incurved rough spines ; beaks glabrous, about £ the 

 length of the rest of the fruit. 



On dry banks and by roadsides and in hedge-banks. Common, 

 and generally distributed. Rare in the North of Scotland, though 

 it has been observed as far North as Sutherlandshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Spring 

 and Summer. 



Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high, somewhat dichotomously branched, 

 swollen below the nodes. Leaves deltoid in outline, somewhat 

 ternately bipinnate or tripinnate, with the leaflets deeply divided 

 into short oblong blunt mucronate segments. Petioles dilated, 

 ciliated with woolly hairs. Umbels on stalks usually shorter than 

 the full-grown rays, the latter £ to f inch long, divaricate. Mowers 

 very minute, white, radiant. Cremocarp surrounded by a ring of 

 hairs at the base, dark-olive, $ to £ inch long, of which the glabrous 

 and angular beak is about one-quarter ; mericarps thickly covered 

 with short spines. Plant light-green, the leaves sparingly clothed 

 with short cartilaginous hairs. 



Common Chervil. 



French, Cer/ettil hirisse. German, Kalberlropf. 



This plant was in former times in great request as a culinary herli, ami is still 

 occasionally cultivated, though we no longer hold it in the same estimation as did 

 Gerarde, who says : — 



" The seeds eaten as a Ballad whiles they are yet green, with oile, vinegi 



