Anthriscus.] umbellifer^. 221 



obtuse ribs, stem rough (spotted) swelling below each joint, leaf- 

 lets ovate-oblong cut, partial involucres reflexed." — Br. Fl. p. 

 177. E.B. t.\b2l. 

 In woods, hedges and waste places ; very common. Fl. June — July. $ .* 



[**** Syndicarp bristly, healeed.'] 



XXVII. Anthriscus, Pers. Beaked Parsley. 



" Fruit constricted at the suture, with a short beak. Carpels 

 without ribs or vittce. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obcordate. 

 (Partial involucre of many leaves)." — Br. Fl. 



1. A. sylvestris, Koch. Wild Chervil. Cow Parsley. " Um- 

 bels terminal stalked, stem hairy at the base glabrous upwards, a 

 little swelling below each joint." — Br. Fl. p. 176. Chserophyl- 

 lum, L. : E. B. t. 752. Jacq^. Fl. Aust. ii. 31, t. 149. 



In moist shady grassy places, meadows, orchards, groves, on damp hedgebanks, 

 borders of fields, &c. ; everywhere. Fl. April— June. Fr. June, July. If. 



This plant is a favourite green-meat for rabbits, and is collected for that pur- 

 pose in the spring. 



2. A. vulgaris, Pers. Common Beaked Parsley. " Umbels 

 stalked opposite the leaves, stem glabrous, leaves temately de- 

 compoimd, the segments obtuse, fruit ovately conical hispid about 

 twice as long as the glabrous beak." — Br. Fl. p. 177. Scandix 

 Anthriscus, E. B. xii. t. 818. Curt. Fl. Land. i. fasc. 1, t. 19. 

 Jacq. Fl. Aust. ii. t. 154. 



On hedgebanks, amongst bushes, by waysides, and in waste places, under 

 walls, &c., mostly about towns and villages, but far from common in the island. 

 JFV. May, June. T^r. June. 0. 



F. Med. — On the Dovei-, Byde ; on the low sandy bank near its W. end, rather 

 sparingly,! ■O''- Bell-SalUr !!! On a dilch-bank between Springfield and Netlle- 

 stone, in very small quantity, 1846. Rather abundantly on the summit of the 

 cliff between Whitwell Shoot and Niton, in several places. Profusely on hedge- 

 banks along the old or upper road between Ventnor and Bonchurch, also abun- 

 dant in several places in that neighbourhood. Along the cliff E. of Ventnor, 

 towards Bonchurch, Rev. G. E. Smith. 



W. Med. — Abundantly on sandy banks and hedgerows at Sand Bank and 

 Sandy Way, Shorwell. Freshwater down. 



Whole plant of a delicate pale green, especially in the leaves, by which it is at 

 once distinguishable from all our other species of this natural order. Root long, 

 whitish, tapering, more or less branched and comosely fibrous, with a warm pun- 

 gent smell. Stem solitary or in the larger plants several, erect or ascending, from 

 1 to 3 feet in height, often much branched, terete, slightly furrowed, hollow, suc- 

 culent and fragile, a little tumid at the joints, often tinged or streaked with pur- 

 ple at the base, glabrous. Leaves triangular in circumscription, remotely tripin- 

 nate, the tertiary divisions or ultimate leaflets small, contiguous, ovate or oblong, 

 deeply lobato-pinnatifid, with ovate, blunt, apiculate, incised segments, smooth 

 above, fringed and hispid underneath with long, white, simple, setose hairs, 

 extending over the partial and common petioles ; of a remarkably tender light 

 green, still paler beneath, soft and flaccid, soon collapsing when gathered. Peti- 



* Pronounced biennial by Curtis, Host, Wahlenberg, Gaudin, Koch, 

 t [This station is now (1854) built over, Fdrs.'] 



