Conopodium. | XXXV. UMBELLIFERZ. 199 
‘Britain than Carum Bulbocastanum, which is also known under the name 
of Pignut. Fl. summer, 
XXX. CHAAROPHYLLUM. CHERVIL. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial involucres of several 
bracts, and white flowers. Fruit narrow-oblong or linear, contracted at 
the top, and sometimes forming a beak always much shorter than the seed. 
Carpels with 5 ribs, sometimes only apparent at the top, either without 
vittas or with one vitta under each interstice. Seed marked with a longi- 
tudinal furrow on the inner face. 
A considerable and rather natural genus, widely diffused over the 
northern hemisphere without the tropics. It is usually divided into two, 
Cherophyllum, with a vitta. between each rib; and Anthriscus, without 
vittas, and the ribs themselves scar cely visible, except at the top, when the 
fruit is beaked; but the distinction is purely artificial. 
Umbels on short, lateral peduncles. Fruit short, hispid .« . 3. C, Anthriscus, 
Umbels terminal. Fruit long, glabrous. 
Lobes of the leaves rather obtuse. Ribs and vittas of the fruit 
conspicuous when dry 1. C. temulum. 
Lobes of the leaves poled. Bruit very smooth, without ribs 
orvittas . . 2. C. sylvestre. 
The garden Chervil (C. Suis Gartn., iene Cerefolium, Hoffm.), 
a native of south-eastern Europe, may occasionally be found in waste places 
near where it has been cultivated. It is a more slender plant than C. 
sylvestre, the leaves more dissected, with shorter segments, the umbels 
mostly lateral and sessile, and the fruit evidently beaked. 
1, C.temulum, Linn. (fig. 442). Rough Chervil.—An erect biennial, 
2 to 3 feet high, and rough with short reflexed hairs. Leaves twice pinnate 
or ternate, with ovate or wedge-shaped, pinnatifid or toothed segments, 
more or less hairy, especially on the upper side; the lobes short and rather 
obtuse, never elongated and pointed as in C, sylvestre and Myrrhis odorata. 
Umbels of few rays, without a general involucre; the partial involucres of 
_ § or 6 broadly-lanceolate bracts, shorter than the pedicels. Outer petals 
of the umbel rather large. Fruit the size of that of C. sylvestre, but with 
5 obtuse ribs and vittas between them. 
In hedges and thickets, in central and southern Europe, and all across 
Russian Asia, extending northwards into southern Scandinavia. Frequent 
in England, less so in Ireland and in the Scotch Highlands. FV. swmmer. 
2, C.syivestre, Linn. (fig. 443). Wild Chervil.—The perennial, or 
perbaps only biennial, stock descends into a tap-root. Stems hairy, erect, 
and branched, 2 to 3 feet high. Lower leaves on long stalks, twice pinnate, 
with ovate-lanceolate pointed segments, deeply pinnatifid and toothed ; 
upper leaves smaller, on shorter stalks, all more or less hairy or rarely 
nearly glabrous. Umbels rather numerous, not large, of 8 or 10 rays, with 
small white flowers. No general involucre, but the partial ones of several 
bracts. Fruits about 3 lines long, very smooth and shining, without ribs or 
vittas, narrowed at the top, but without any distinct beak. Anthriscus syl- 
westris, Hoffm. 
Under hedges, on the borders of fields, etc., throughout Europe and 
Russian Asia. In Britain, one of the commonest Umbellifere. Fl. spring. 
