220 UMBELLIFEB^. [ScUTldix. 



*** Syndicarps smooth, more or less attenuated upwards or beaked. 

 f Beak much attenuated, several times longer than the seeds. 



XXV. ScANDix, Linn. 



" Fruit laterally compressed, with a long beak. Carpels with 

 5 obtuse ribs and no vitta. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obo- 

 vate, with an inflected point. (Universal involucre wanting, or of 

 1 leaf ; partial one of b — 7 leaves)." — Br. Fl. 



1. S. Pecten, L. Venus' Comb. Shepherd's Needle. Needle 

 Chervil. Vect. Crow Needles. " Beak 3 — 4 times longer than the 

 roughish fruit dorsally compressed ciliated with bristles, leaflets 

 cut into many linear or lanceolate short segments." — Br. Fl. p. 

 176. E. B. t. 1397. 



Abundant in cultivated land, amongst corn, turnips and other crops. Fl. May 

 — October. ©. 



A pale green, bushy, slightly aromatic herb. Root whitish, tapering, with seve- 

 ral stout simple fibres. Stems 1 or raoie, about a foot high, erect or ascending, 

 branched, round, solid, striated, often purplish below, clothed with short S|iieading 

 hairs. Leaves light green, oblong, the lower ones on long channelled petioles, with 

 sheathing bases, which are membranous at the margin and downy, the upper ses- 

 sile on their still more inflated and downy sheaths, subtripinnate, the lowermost 

 pair of primary yirenae remote, the secondary pinnae often alternate, bi- or tri-pin- 

 nato-pinnatifid, the segments linear-acute, mucronulate and spinulose on the mar- 

 gins and midrib underneath. Umbels terminal and opposite, small, 1 — 3, rarely 

 4-rayed, when with more than 2 rays generally subtended by a leaf. Flowers 

 small, white, some of them wanting styles, and consequently abortive. Petals 

 unequal, the exterior ones largest, obovate, with inflexed points. Sti/les per- 

 sistent, simple, erect, cylindrical and contiguous, on the flat, thick, 2-lobed stylo- 

 pode. Syndicarps spreading or suberect, nearly sessile, dull reddish brown when 

 ripe, elliptical-obloDg, 4 or 5 times shorter than their straight, tapering, dorsally 

 compressed beak, which is from about 1 J to 2^ inches in length, beset along the 

 sides or edges with close, erect, simple spines, and crowned with the straight 

 upright styles ; hemicarps laterally compressed, a little diverging at their base, 

 which is rounded and tipped with a shining gland or callosity, hence the entire 

 fruit appears as though pendulous or suspended on the carpophore, not standing 

 on the pedicel ; primary ridges scarcely prominent, equal, uncoloured, the lateral 

 pair marginal, with spinnlose edges ; secondary ridges obsolete, interstices black- 

 ish brown, furrowed, and as well as the primary ridges rough with callous points ; 

 vittce obscure or obsolete ; albumen furrowed in front. Carpophore entire, fili- 

 form. 



•ff Beak shorter than the seeds. 

 XXVI. CHiEEOPHYLLUM, Linn. Chervil. 



" 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 vittce. Calyx- 

 teeth obsolete. Petals obcordate, with an inflected point. (Par- 

 tial involucre of many leaves)." — Br. Fl. 



1. C temulentimi, Ij. Rough Chervil. "Fruit glabrous with 



