PKNTANDRIA— ])IGYNIA. Cliaropliyllum. 47 



. simple ; solitary or in pairs. Bractcas jagged. Petals iu- 

 flextnl at the point. 



S. Pecten-^'ene^is. Linn. Sn. P/.3GS. mild. v. 1 . 14 1.9. Fl. Br.324. 



Engl. Bot. V. 20. t. 1397. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. f. 21 . Mart. Rust. 



t.38. Hook. Scot. 92. Fl. Dan. t. 844. Jacq. Austr. t.263. Dod. 



Pempt.70l.f. 

 Scandix. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 38. 



S. semine ro.strato, vulgaris. BauJi. Pin. 152. Raii S;jn. 207- 

 Myirhis n. 754. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 330. 

 Pecten \'eneris. Matth. Valgr. r. 1 . 48 1 . /. Canier. Epit. 304, /. 



Bank. Uist. v. 3. p.2. 71 ./. Ger. Em. 1 040. /. 



In cultivated fields common. 



Annual . June — September. 



Root tapering. Stems 1 or more, simple or bu.sliy, spreading, a 

 foot iiigh, leafy, furrowed, smooth, or somewhat hairy, often pur- 

 plish. Leaves light green, triply pinnatifid, with linear, acute, 

 smooth segments. Foot:ilalks dilated at the base, with mem- 

 branous hairy edges. Umbels small, mostly terminal, stalked, 

 in pairs, here and there solitary ; with very short rays, over- 

 topped by the broad, cloven or jagged, white-edged bracteas. 

 Fl. in some degree radiant, especially those of the circumfei-ence, 

 which alone ripen seed, the innermost having no perfect germew*. 

 Petals undivided, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, inflexed. Frwi^ be- 

 set with a few close bristles ; the beak, which is li or 2 inches 

 long, much more rough, especially at the edges, and crowned 

 witli the purplish, enlarged, 5-cIeft receptacle of the flower, over- 

 topped by the straight upright styles. 



This is sometimes a troublesome weed, to which, though slightly 

 aromatic and acrid, no particular use is attributed. Dioscorides, 

 indeed, mentions it as eatable ; but his XyMvSt^ may not be 

 ours. 



144. CHiEROPHYLLUM. Chervil. 



Linn. Gen. 143. Juss. 220. Fl. Br. 325. Sprang. Prodr. 30. Lam. 

 ?. 201./. 1,2. Geertn. t.23. 



Fl. imperfectly separated; the innermost barren. Cal. none. 

 Pef. somewhat unequal, inversely heart-shaped, with an 

 inflexed point. Filam. thread-shaped, spreading, about 

 as long as the corolla. AntJi. roundish. Germ, inferior, 

 oblong, slightly compressed, smooth. Styles short, awl- 

 shaped, a litde spreading, tumid at the base. Stigmas 

 simple. Fruit lanceolate, smooth and even, destitute of 

 furrows or prominent ribs, with a short, angular, smooth 

 beak, crowned with the depressed wavy receptacle of the 

 flower, subtending the permanent, slightly recurved, 5/y^.<r. 



