48 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chaerophyllum. 



Annual or perennial aromatic herbs, with a sweetish taste. 

 Stem upright, branched, leafy, smooth and even, or fur- 

 rowed. Leaves twice or Ihrice pinnate, cut, smooth. 

 Umbels either terminal and stalked, or lateral and sessile, 

 of several general as well as partial rays. General bracteas 

 none; partial several, ovate-lanceolate. Pet. white. Fruit 

 polished. 



1. Ch. sativum. Garden Chervil. 

 Umbels sessile, lateral. Bracteas lanceolate. 



Ch. sativum. Bauh. Pin. 152. Gcertn. v. 1 . 107. Sprang. Prodr. 30. 

 Hoolc. Scot. 93. 



Chaerefollum sativum. Trag. Hist. 471./. 



Cerefolium. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 43. Matth. Valgr.v. 1. 480./. Ga- 

 mer. Epit. 302. f. 



C. n. 747. Hall. Hist. v. 1.327. 



C. sativum. Moris, v. 3.303. sect. 9. t.\\.f.\. 



C. vulgare sativum. Ger. Em. 1038./. 



Scandix Cerefolium. Linn. Sp. PI. 3fi8. Willd. v. 1. 1450. With. 

 307. Engl.Bot.v. 18. t. 12G8. Jacq.Austr. i. 390. Lam.f. 1. 



Gingidium. Fuchs. Hist. 217. t. 216. 



In waste ground ; perhaps the outcast of gardens. 



Near Worcester. Dr. Stokes. In great plenty on a bank near 

 Halesworth, Suffolk, to all appearance wild. Mr. Turner and Mr. 

 Wigg. Frequent near Glasgow. Mr. Hopkirk. 



Annual. June. 



Root tapering. Herbage light-green, shining, delicate and tender. 

 Stem round, hollow, striated, a little hairy at the joints only. 

 Leaves twice pinnate, cut, with channelled /oo^sia/A's. Umbels 

 either a.xillary, or opposite to the leaves, of 3 or 4 spreading ge- 

 neral rays, and several partial ones. Ft. slightly radiant. Fr, 

 somewhat furrowed, not ribbed ; sometimes, according to JaC- 

 quin's report, very slightly hairy. 



This herb is much used in France for salads, and is mentioned as 

 a pot-herb by Gerarde, though now little regarded. 



2. Ch..ft/lvest7-e. Wild Chervil. Smooth Cow-parsley. 

 Umbels terminal, stalked. Bracteas ovate, membranous. 



Ch. svlvestre. Linn. Sp. PI. 369. Willd. v. 1. 1452. f7.£r.326. 



Erigl. Bot. I'. 11 . t. 752. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 25. Mart. Rust. 



t.96. Hook. Scot. 93. Jacq. Justr.t. 149. Lam.f. 2. 

 Cerefolium n. 748. Hall. Hist. v. 1.328. 

 C. sylvestre. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 44, 

 C. sylvestre perenne, seminibus Isevibus nigris. Moris, v. 3. 303. 



sec^9. t. 11./. 5. 



