46 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Scandix. 



white, all uniform, perfect, aiifl generally fertile. Cal. entirely 

 wanting. Pel. inversely heart-shaped, scarcely at all unequal. 

 Fruit ovate, tumid, slightly compressed, green, covered with nu- 

 merous, short, ascending, incurved bristles, and tipped with a 

 double, pyramidal, smooth, angular beak, scarcely half its own 

 length, which is crowned by the very short erect siyles, whose 

 bases are large and tumid^ without any evident floral receptacle^ 



The petals are inaccurately represented in Engl. Dot. as if they were 

 inserted at the base, not the summit, of the beak. 



The whole herb has a sweetish aromatic flavour, approaching to 

 the Garden Chervil, to which it is in habit very nearly allied. 



A.funiariokles and nemorosa of Sprengel are the only unquestion- 

 able species, besides the present, which have fallen in my way. 

 His nodosa, Scandix nodosa of Linnteus, has no traces of a beak, 

 and would be a Torilis, as Gtertner makes it, but for the want 

 of a calyx i 



143. SCANDIX. Shepherd's-needle. 



Linn. Gen. 142. Jim. 220. Fl.Br.323. Sprang. Prodr. 29. Tourn. 



t.\73. Gcvrtn. t.85. 

 Chffirophyllum. Lam. ^. 201./. G. 



Fl. separated ; the innermost barren. Cal. none. Pet. un- 

 equal, undivided, tapering at the base, spreading. Filam. 

 thread-shaped, spreading, the length of the corolla. Anth. 

 1-oundish. Germ, inferior, oblong, somewhat compressed, 

 tnore or less rough, with close hairs. Styles spreading, 

 short, finally erect, permanent, swelled at the base. 

 Stigmas simple ; in the barren fl. obtuse. Fruit ribbed, 

 somewhat bristly, elliptic-oblong, with a straight, linear, 

 flat, bristly beak, five times its own length, crowned with 

 the permanent, enlarged, 5-lobed, coloured receptacle of 

 the flower, surrounding the base of the styles. 



Annual herbs, Vv-ith, more or less radiant, white Jlo'wers. 

 Leaves finely subdivided. Umbels either simple, solitary 

 or in pairsj or regularly compound, without general brac- 

 teas. Partial bracteas several, oval, divided or irregu- 

 larly cut, with a membranous fringed margin, all con- 

 siderably longer than the very short flower-stalks. Petals 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, inflexed ; or obovate ; obtuse, and 

 spreading ; the outermost one, of the marginal Jloisers^ 

 sometimes very large and radiant. 



1, S. Pecten- Veneris. Common Shepherd's-needle. 



Venus's Comb ; or Needle Chervil. 

 Fruit nearly smooth, with a bristly-edged beak. Umbels 



