CHAROPHYLLUM 'lTrMULUM. SMALL Cow-PARSLEY. 
CHZEROPHYLLUM Zn. Gen. Pl. PrzNvANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Involucrum reflexum, concavum. Petala inflexo-cordata. 
Fructus oblongus, levis. 
Rau Syn, Gen. 11. UwsziLirER E HERBA. 
CHA;ROPHYLLUM Zemulum, caule fcabro: genieulis tumidis. . Lin. Syfl. Vegetab. p. 288. — Sbec. 
Plant. p. 370. Fl. Suec. n. 258. 
MYRRHIS foliis hirfutis, laciniis obtufis, caule geniculato. Haller hift. n. 750. 
CHJEROPHYLLUM fylveftre. Bauh. Pin. 152. 
CEREFOLIUM fylveftre. Ger. emac. 1038. Park. 915. 
ANTHRISCUS Plinii quibufdam, femine longo Cicutarie aut Cherophylli. 7. B.IIL. 2. 7o. Raii 
ae 207. Wild Chervil. Aud/on Fl. Angl. ed.2. p.125. Lightfoot Fl. Scot. 
f. 107. 

RADIX biennis, fubramofa, albida. 
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ROOT biennial, fomewhat branched, and whitifh. 
CAULIS bipedalis et ultra, ere&us, ramofus, teres, 
folidus, ad genicula fragiles, aut penitus 
atropurpureus, aut maculis atropurpureis ad- 
Ífperfus, breviffimis pilis veftitus, fcabriuf- 
culus, geniculis tumidis et manifefte flriatis. 
STALK two feetor more in height, upright, branched, 
round, folid, brittle at the joints, either 
wholly of a dark purple, or fpotted with the 
fame colour, covered with very fhort hairs, 
and roughifh to the touch, the joints fwelled 
and obvioully ftriated. 
FOLIA radicalia et ramea ex petiolo vaginante orta, 
hirfutula, mollia, flaccida, duplicato-pinnata, 
pinnis fubovatis, obtufis et lobato-incifis. 
LEAVES next the root and thofe of the branches 
furnifhed with a foot-ftalk which has a fheath 
at bottom, flightly hirfute, foft, flaccid, 
doubly pinnated, the pinnz fomewhat ovate, 
obtufe, and cut into lobes. 
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UMBELL/ florentes ere&tz, aut in latus parum in- # UMBELS when in flower upright, or inclined a little to 
clinate, antea valde nutantes. one fide, when young drooping very much. 
UMBELLA unver/alis componitur ex radiis numero 
variis, a quinque ad duodecim, exterioribus * 
longioribus, fartzales radii numero fere du- 
plicantur. 
INVOLUCRUM unzverfale plerumque nullum, 2ar- 
&ale conftat foliolis plus minus fenis, lan- 
ceolatis, acutis, reflexis. 
UMBEL: the univerfal one is compofed of rays 
which vary in number from five to twelve, 
the outermoft longeft, the 2arita/ umbel has 
almoft twice as many. 
INVOLUCRUM : the genera? involucrum is for the 
moft part wanting, the fartzal one confifls of 
fix leaves, more or lefs, which are lanceolate, 
pointed, and turned back. 
COROLLA. univerfalis fubuniformis, flofculis difci à COROLLA: the unzver/al corolla fomewhat uniform, 
raro nifi in fero florentibus abortientes; pro- & the florets of the difk rarely abortive, unlefs 
pria petalis quinque, albis, inflexo-cordatis, : in thofe which flower late, each zndevidual 
exterioribus paulo majoribus, jig. 1. auct. compofed of five white petals, which, having 
the tip bent inward, become heart-fhaped, 
the outermoft ones rather largeft, fig. 1. magn. 
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STAMINA: FriLAMENTA quinque alba: ANTHERJE 
albidz, fig. 2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen inferum; Sryzr duo re- 
flexi; STIGMATA obtufa, fig. 3. 
STAMINA: five white FizLAMENTS; ANTHER& 
whitifh, fig. 2. 
PISTILLUM:: Geren beneath the flower; SryLEs 
two, reflexed ; Sricmara blunt, fg. 3. 
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SEMINA oblonga, glabra, fufca, acuta, intus con- % SEEDS oblong, fmooth, brown, pointed, on the infide 
cava, extus obfolete et obtufe quinque ful- 4 hollow, onthe outfide faintly and bluntly mark- 
cata, angulis pallentibus, fig. 4. d ed with five grooves, the angles paler, fig. 4. 
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The Cherophyllum temulum is nearly as common a plant as the /ylvefre, flowers a month or fix weeks later, 
and is more confined to fheltered fituations; it delights to grow under hedges, but is rarely met with in 
open paftures. 
The roughnefs, deep purple colour, and fwelled joints of the ftalk, readily diftinguifh it not only from the 
fylveftre, but from our other umbelliferous plants; the ftalk is alfo frequently fpotted with purple, and hence 
the ignorant, who often diftinguifh the Hemlock by that character alone, may be led to miftake it for that 
plant; we may remark alfo, that the umbels, when young, droop remarkably. 
Why Linn aus fhould give it the name of temulum, unlefs from the laft-mentioned circumftance, we know 
not: Harrzm, who read almoft every book on Botany and Medicine, is filent as to its effects. 
The feeds afford the beft diftin&ion of the genus Cherophyllum, the general involucrum being with us for 
the moft part wanting, both in this fpecies and the /y/vefire. 
