PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Myrrhis. 51 



Germ, oblong, a little hairy. Fruit an inch long, dark brown, 

 crowned with the spreading styles. Seeds each with 3 very pro- 

 minent, compressed, dorsal angles, or wings, rough, like fine 

 saws, near the summit 3 the inner surfaces dilated, flattish, close 

 together. 



The young seeds have the flavour of Anise, and are gratefully sto- 

 machic, stronger than the herbage. 



This plant might perhaps form the type of a separate genus ; for 

 the very prominent acute ribs of the seeds accord but ill with 

 those of all the following, though there is no difference in the 

 rest of the fructification. 



2. M. temulenta. Rough Cicely. Rough Cow-parsley. 

 Seeds furrovi^ed, nearly smooth. Stem rough, swelled under 

 each joint. 



M. temula. Spreng. Prodr. 29. 



M. n. 750. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 329. 



Myrrhis. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 49. 



M. annua vulgaris, caule fusco. Moris, v. 3. 302. sect. 9. t. 10./. 7. 



Chserophvllum temulentum. Linn. Sp. PI. 370. TVilld. v. 1. 1454. 



Fl. Br." 326. Engl. But. v. 22. t. 1521. Hook. Scot. 93. Curt. 



Lond.fasc. «. t. 24. Fl. Dan. t. 918. Jacq. Austr. t. 65. 

 Cerefolium sylvestre. Rail Syn. 207. Ger. Em. 1038./. 

 Anthriscus Plinii. Dalech. Hist. 79\.f. 

 Wild Chervil. Pet. H. Brit. t. 25. f. 3. 



In bushy places, and under hedges, common. 



Biennial. June, July. 



Root spindle-shaped, subdivided. Stem about 3 feet high, round, 

 solid, striated, rough with short deflexed hairs, and spotted with 

 dark purple j swelled under each leaf. Leaves dark green, hairy, 

 twice pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid and lobed, paler beneath. 

 Umbels of many hairy unequal rays ; the partial ones smooth, 

 drooping when young. General bracteas either entirely want- 

 ing, or solitary ; rarely numerous ; partial several, ovate, 

 pointed, rather membranous or coloured, finely fringed at the 

 margin and keel, occasionally Confluent at the base. Fl. white, 

 numerous, very slightly irregular ; partly barren, with the glo- 

 bular bases of the styles only j those of the circumference princi- 

 pally fertile. Germ, club-shaped, smooth. Fruit linear, crowned 

 with the short recurved sttjles and their globose bases, without 

 any obvious receptacle of the flower. Stigmas somewhat capi- 

 tate. Seeds nearly cylindrical, rather furrowed than ribbed, 

 slightly roughish, or tuberculated, towards the summit, in which 

 character this species approaches the foregoing ; but the ribs, 

 or spaces between the furrows, are broad and convex, not acute 

 and prominent. 



The whole plant is sweetish and aromatic, acceptable to domestic 

 cattle, nor is any intoxicating quality recorded, notwithstanding 



