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about 5 reflexed bracts, and afterwards by its smooth, shortly 

 beaked fruit. Hedges ; common. — Fl. April to June. Perennial. 



A. cerefolium (Garden Chervil) is not a 

 native plant, though sometimes found in the 

 neighbourhood of houses. It may be distin- 

 guished from the preceding by having only 3 

 partial frrac^.s, lateral 'iiml)els,-Aw\ smooth frii-it. 



32. Ch.ekophyllum (Chervil) 

 I. C. tcmulentuin (Rough Chervil). — Th-e 

 only British species ; very common in woods 

 and hedges. The stem is slender, 2-3 feet 

 high, rough with short hairs, spotted with 

 purple, and swollen beneath the joints ; the 

 leaves are twice pinnate, deeply lobed and 

 cut, hairy, often making the plant conspicu- 

 ous in autumn by their rich purple hue ; the 

 flowers are white, and grow in terminal um- 

 bels, which droop when in bud ; general 

 bracts either absent or very few ; partial 

 brads several, fringed and defle.xed.^^ 

 Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



Ch^rofhyllum Temu- 

 i.ENTUM {Rough Chervil) 



33. Myrrhis {Cicely) 

 I. M. odorata (Sweet Cicely). — Remarkable for its sweet and 

 highly aromatic flavour. The stem is 2-3 feet high, furrowed and 



hollow ; the leaves large, thrice pinnate, 

 cut, and slightly downy. The flowers are 

 white, and grow in termmal downy 

 umbels ; bracts partial only, whitish, and 

 finely fringed. The fruit is remarkably 

 large, dark brown, with very sharp ribs, 

 and po.ssesses the flavour of the rest of 

 the plant in a high degree. Mountainous 

 pastures in the north. — Fl. May, June, 

 Perennial. 



The foregoing descriptions contain only 

 those umbelliferous plants which are most 

 •-iC^^'<\ commonly to hk met with. There are 

 besides these a few others, which are 

 either of unusual occurrence or have 

 escaped from cultivation ; these are ; — 



Physospermim Cornubiense (Cornish 

 Bladder-seed). —An erect, smooth plant 

 Physosperncm Cornu- about 2 jeet high, with thrice ternate 

 m7.fiSR {Cornish Bladder-seal) leaves and white flowers, which are fur- 



