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TTTE UMBELLATE FAMILY. 



lobe of each segment much longer than 

 the lateral ones. Umbels terminal, or 

 one opposite the last leaf, of 6 to 10 rays. 

 The ribs and vittas of the fruit scarcely 

 perceptible. 



In woods and pastures, chiefly known 

 as a west European plant, possibly ex- 

 tending eastward to the Caucasus, but 

 there is some uncertainty as to the iden- 

 tity of the eastern species referred to it. 

 Much more common in Britain than the 

 tuberous Carum, which is also known 

 under the name of Pignut, FL summer. 



Fig. 436. 



XXXII. CHERVIL,. CHiEKOPHYLLTJM. 



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 longitudinal 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, Cheer ojphyllum, with a vitta between each rib ; and Anthriscus, 

 without vittas, and the ribs themselves scarcely 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. Burr C. 

 Umbels terminal. Fruit long, glabrous. 



Lobes of the leaves rather obtuse. Ribs and vittas of the fruit 



conspicuous when dry 1. Rough C, 



Lobes of the leaves pointed. Fruit very smooth, without ribs 



or vittas 2. Wild C. 



The garden Chervil (C. sativum, Eng. Bot. t. 1268; Anthriscus 

 Cerefolium, Brit. FL), a native of south-eastern Europe, may occa- 



