UMBELLIFER^. 



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sionally be found in waste places near where it has been cultivated. 

 It is a more slender plant than the wild C. 9 the leaves more dissected, 

 with shorter segments, the umbels mostly lateral and sessile, and the 

 fruit evidently beaked. 



1. Bough Chervil. 



Chserophyllum temulum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 437.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1521.) 



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 seg- 

 ments, more or less hairy, especially on 

 the upper side ; the lobes short and ra- 

 ther obtuse, never elongated and pointed 

 as in the wild C. and the stveet Cicely. 

 Umbels of few rays, without a general 

 involucre ; the partial involucres of 5 or 

 6 broadly-lanceolate bracts, shorter than 

 the pedicels. Outer petals of the umbel 

 rather large. Fruit the size of that of 

 the wild C, 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 south- 

 ern Scandinavia. Frequent in England and Ireland, less so in the 

 Scotch Highlands. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 437. 



2. Wild Chervil. Chserophyllum sylvestre, Linn. 



(Fig. 438.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 752. Anthriscus, Brit. Fl.) 



The perennial, or perhaps 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 nu- 

 merous, not large, of 8 to 10 rays, with small white flowers. No gene- 



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