UMBF.LLIFERJE. 1GI) 



SPECIES IV.-CH^EROPHYLLUM TEMULUE Linn. 

 Plate DCXXV. 

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

 0. temulentum, Sm. Eng. But. No. 1521. 

 Alyrrhis temulenta, Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. II. p. 51. 



Stem erect, solid, rather stout, branched in the upper part, 

 slightly thickened beneath the nodes, striate, hairy, blotched with 

 purple. Umbels stalked, terminal rays 6 to 16, hairy. Involucels 

 complete, of 5 to 8 lanceolate-acuminate ciliated spreading reflexed 

 leaves. Petals glabrous. Cremocarp sub-cylindrical, slightly at- 

 tenuated towards the apex ; columella split nearly halfway down ; 

 mericarps each with 5 thick blunt ridges ; beak none. Styles slightly 

 recurved, as long as the stylopods. 



In hedge-banks and borders of fields and waste places. Com- 

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

 Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



_ Boot slender, tapering. Stem 1 to 4 feet high. Leaves deltoid 

 in outline, bipinnate, with the leaflets deeply pinnatifid. Umbel 

 rays 1 to 2 inches long. Cremocarp ± inch long, blackish-brown, 

 with the ridges paler. Plant dull-green, sparingly hairy. 



This and Conium maculatum are the only two British umbellates 

 which have the stem blotched with purple. 



Hough Cherrl'. 

 French, Cerfeuil Pencil. German, Betiiubender Kiilherkropf. 



GENUS XXXIII.—m YRRHIS. Tournef. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate, notched, with an inflexed 

 lobe. Cremocarp elliptical-ovoid, slightly laterally compressed, 

 smooth, pointed at the apex but not prolonged into a beak ; colu- 

 mella free, 2-cleft at the apex ; mericarps with 5 very prominent 

 sharply-keeled hollow ribs ; interstices without vittse. Albumen 

 of the seed with a deep furrow on the face next the columella. 

 Involucre none. 



Ilerbs with ternate - pinnately decompound leaves and large 

 compound umbels of white slightly radiant flowers, central flowers 

 of each umbellule male. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from ^wc,n r (muran), perfume, or uviia 

 (murra), myrrh, or possibly from the Hebrew word mora, bitter. 

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