PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Anthriscus. 45 



inflexed point. Filam. capillary, the length of the corolla, 

 spreading. Aiith. roundish. Germ, inferior, ovate-oblong, 

 bristly; naked and angular at the summit. Fl. Recept. 

 slightly bordered. Styles awl-shaped, short, erect, tumid 

 at the base, rather distant. Stigmas obtuse. Fruit ovate 

 or somewhat lanceolate, tumid, beaked. Seeds without 

 ribs, covered irregularly with short incurved bristles, ex- 

 cept the beak, which is angular and naked, much shorter 

 than the body of the fruit, abrupt, crowned with the per- 

 manent styles. 



Root annual. Herbage smooth, or somewhat hairy. Stem 

 branched. Leaves repeatedly compound and finely di- 

 vided. Umbels lateral and terminal, compound, of several 

 slender smooth rays, without any general bracteas ; the 

 partial umbels of rather more numerous rays, dense, uni- 

 form, with many lanceolate undivided bracteas. Fl. white. 

 Fr. adhesive. 



A. nodosa of Persoon and Sprengel wants the beak, and re- 

 quires further examination, particularly as to the Jlowers. 



1. A. vufgaris. Common Beaked-parsley. 



Fruit ovate, twice the length of its beak. Leaves triply pin- 

 nate, pinnatifid. 



A. vulgaris. " Pers. Syn. v. J . 820." Spreng. Prodr.27. Hoffm. 



Umb. V. 1 . 43. Hook. Scot. 93. 

 Scandix Anthriscus. Linn. Sp. PL 368. Willd. v. 1. 1450. FL 



Br. 32.5. Engl. Bat. v. 12. ^ 818. Curt. Land. fasc. \.t.\9. 



Mart. Rust. t. 75. Jacq. Austr. t. 154. 

 Caucalis scanciicina. Wigg. Holsat. 23. With. 289. Fl. Dan. <.863. 

 C. n. 743. Hall. Hist. v. 1.325. 

 C. folio cerefolii. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t.35. 

 Myrrhis sylvestris, seminibus asperis. Bauli. Pin. 160. Raii Syn. 



220. 

 M. ffiquicolorum nova. Column. Ecphr. 1 10. <. 112. 



On banks and waste ground, chiefly near large towns. 



Annual. May. 



Root fibrous. Stfm 2 or 3 feet high, upright, leafy, round, very 

 smooth and polished, swelled under each joint. Leaves of a most 

 beautiful light green, especially when young ; their ultimate seg- 

 ments uniform, narrow and bluntish ; their edges, ribs, and 

 stalks a little hairy. Common footstalks bordered and woolly at 

 the lower part. Umbels on rather short stalks, each of 5, or more, 

 general rays, and numerous partial ones, all smooth. General 

 bracteas entirely wanting ; partial about 5 or 6, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, pointed, with a membranous, fringed margin. Fl. small. 



