168 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES III.— CH^lROPHTLLUm SYLVESTRE. Linn. 



Plate DCXXIV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2852. 



Anthriscus sylvestris, Dab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 153. 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. 3±6. Gr. & Godr. FL de Fr. Vol. I. p. 742. 



Stem erect, stout, equal, branched in the upper part, hollow, 

 furrowed, generally hispid in the lower part. Umbels stalked, 

 terminal ; rays 6 to 16, glabrous. Involucel complete, of 3 to 7 

 linear - lanceolate reflexed ciliated leaves. Cremocarp elliptic- 

 cylindrical, indistinctly beaked, unarmed, smooth; beak about £ 

 the length of the rest of the fruit. 



In hedge-banks, meadows, open parts of woods, &c. Very 

 common, and generally distributed, except in the extreme North of 

 Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Spring and Summer. 



Root a thickened tapering tap-root. Stem 2 to 4 feet high. 

 Radical leaves on long stalks, stem-leaves with shorter stalks, 

 with dilated pubescent petioles ; lamina deltoid in outline, some- 

 what ternately bi- or tri-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, with acute 

 lanceolate segments. Umbel rays 1 to 2 inches long. Fruit sur- 

 rounded at the base by a ring of hairs, \ inch to f inch long, olive, 

 shining, narrowing insensibly into the very short 10-ribbed beak. 

 Plant bright-green, usually slightly hairy, but variable in this 

 respect. 



Dr. J. E. Gray (Seemann's " Journal of Botany," 1863, p. 296) 

 mentions that he finds about Kew two forms of this plant growing 

 together, one with a stout deeply-furrowed angular green stem, the 

 other with a much more slender, less deeply and regularly furrowed 

 purplish stem. 



Anthriscus abortivus, Jorch Billot, No. 2851, appears to be a 

 variety or sub-species with leaves less divided, and without the 

 ring of hairs at the base of the fruit : it is not unlikely to occur 

 in upland districts. 



Wild Chervil, Coic-Parslcy. 



French, Ccr/euil Sauvagc. German, Waid KerbeL 



Sub-Genus II.— EU-CU.UROrnYLLUM. (Cii;eropiitllu:u, 

 Hoffim.) 



Cremocarp attenuated at the :ipex, but without a distinct beak ; 

 mericarps with 5 filiform ridges ; interstices each with a single vitta. 



