tjmbellifeuye. 1G7 



pepper, exceed all other Ballads by many degrees, both in pleasantnesse of taste, 

 sweetnease of smell, and wholeaomenesae for the cold and feeble stooiacke. 



" The roots are likewise most excellent in a sallad ; if thay be boiled and after- 

 wards dressed as the cunning cooke knoweth how better than myselfe ; notwith- 

 standing I use to eat them with oile and viueger, being first boiled ; which is very 

 good for old people that are dull and without courage ; it rejoiceth and comforteth the 

 heart, and increaseth their strength." 



SrECIES II— CH-ffiROPHYLLUM SATIVUM. Lam. 

 Plate DCXXIII. 



Anthriscus Cerefolium, Ilqffm. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 152. Hook. & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 185. D. C. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 223. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. 



p. 22. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 347. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. I. p. 741. 

 Scaudix Anthriscus, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 12G8. 



Stem erect, weak, nearly equal, slightly branched throughout, 

 hollow, striate, glabrous. Umbels subsessile or very shortly 

 stalked, mostly opposite the leaves ; rays 3 to 5, pubescent. Invo- 

 lucel dimidiate, of 2 or 3 linear - lanceolate ciliated spreading- 

 refiexed leaves. Cremocarp sub-cylindrical, unarmed, finely sha- 

 greened, beak about half the length of the rest of the fruit. 



In waste ground and hedges. Rare, and no doubt always 

 escaped from cultivation, and not permanent in its stations. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Annual or Biennial. Summer. 



Extremely like C. Anthriscus, but with the main stem stouter, 

 the lateral umbels generally subsessile, the ultimate leaflets broader 

 and less deeply divided, the flowers larger. Umbels nearly sessile, 

 with hairy rays and dimidiate involucels. The fruit is very different, 

 not surrounded by a ring of bristly hairs at the base, dusky, f to 

 \ inch long, glabrous, without any spines, with the beak paler, much 

 longer in proportion, the stylopods and styles much longer. 



Garden Chervil. 



French, Cer/euil Anthrisque. German, Gemeiner Kerbel. 



This is perhaps the most generally known of all our wild umbelliferous plants, 

 covering with its finely divided hairy foliage many of our neglected hedge-banks and 

 field borders. The leaves have a sweetish aromatic taste, and might be employed as a 

 green vegetable ; but the roots are said to be poisonous : cases are mentioned of fatal 

 results following the partaking of it. The stems and leaves yield a beautiful but not 

 very permanent green dye. 



Gerarde tells us that Pliny says — " this is that herbe which Aristophanes objected 

 in sport to the poet Euripides, that his mother was wont to sell no right potherbe 

 but scandix, or shepheard's needle." By this name the Wild Chervil was known in 

 olden times. 



