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186 XXXVIII. UMBELLiFER^. \_Chcerophylluni, 



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Leaves slightly hairy. Partial umheU small, with small involucres. 

 Fruit rather large, with a distinct furrow on each side which extends 

 to the beak, covered with hooked bristles, 



35. Ch^rophyllum Linn. Chervil. (Tab. III. f. 35.) 



Fruit laterally compressed or constricted, with a very short 

 beak. Carpels with 5 obtuse ribs, with a deep furrow on the 

 inner face of the carpels. Interstices with single vitt(B. Cal,^ 

 teeth obsolete. Pet. obcordate, with an inflected point. (Partial 



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N"amed from xatpw, to rejoice^ and 



<l)v\Xov^ a leaf; hence comes uur wuru K_y/Lc/ uu^ u 

 cultivated Anthinscus Cerefoliiim^ whose leaves h 

 able smell. 



1. C. temidentuni L. (rough C) ; fruit glabrox 

 ribs, stem rough (spotted) swelling below each 

 ovate-oblong cut, partial involucres reflexed. Fl 



Stem S ft. or more 



Hedges and copses, common. ^ . 6, 7. 



Leaves doubly pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid 



Umbels at first 



high, rough with hairs. 



or incise-lobate, the segments obtuse, mucronate 



Fruit linear-oblong, striate. 



drooping. 



2. C. ^aureum L. {tawny -fruited (7.) ; pubescent, frui 

 obtuse ribs coloured, stem slightly swelling l^elow the 

 leaflets very acuminate inclse-pinnatifid. M. B. t. 2103. 



Fields between Arbroath and Montrose, and near Corstorphine, 



Stem 3 ft. or more high, branched, aromatic. 



Edinburgh. 



%. 6. 



Leaves tripinnate ; leaflets peculiarly attenuated, at least on the upper 

 leaves (for the radical ones are more obtuse), a character which dis- 

 tinguishes this from every other British species. 



3. C. 



rib 



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5 



"^ ai^omdticum L. (broad-leaved C) ; fruit with obtuse 

 leaves subternate bipinnate, leaflets ovate- 



oblong 



sub- 



acuminate serrate undivided. FJ. B. t. 2G36. 



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By the side of a river called Lunan and Vennie near Guthrie, For- 

 farshire. 1/.. 6 Stem 2 — 3 ft. high, slightly pubescent below, 



glabrous above. 



Leaves biternate ; leaflets large, undivided or rarely 

 with a small lobe near the base, pubescent beneath. In this, as well 

 as in C aureum^ there is sometimes a small general involucre. No 

 one has ever found this plant or the preceding, except the late Mr. G. 

 Don, although the stations have been repeatedly searched. 



36. Myrrhis Tourn. Cicely. (Tab. III. f. 86.) 



Fruit laterally compressed, with scarcely any beak ; suture 

 with a deep furrow. Carpels of 2 membranes, deeply furrowed 

 •with 5 very prominent acute ribs, and a hollow under them. 

 Vitt(2 none. Cah-teeth obsolete. 



fleeted point. 



Pet. obcordate with an in- 



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Many of 



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