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THE UMBELLATE FAMILY. 



ral involucre, but the partial ones of se- 

 veral bracts. Fruits about 3 lines long, 

 very smooth and shining, without ribs or 

 vittas, narrowed at the top, but without 

 any distinct beak. 



Under hedges, on the borders of fields, 

 etc., throughout Europe and Russian 

 Asia. In Britain, one of the commonest 

 Umbellates. Fl. spring. 



Fig. 438. 



3. Burr Chervil. Chserophyllum Anthriscus, Lam. 

 (Fig. 439.) 



(Scandix, Eng. Bot. t. 818. Anthriscus vulgaris, Brit. Fl.) 



An erect, branched, hairy annual, at- 

 taining near 2 feet in height, with nearly 

 as much the habit of a Caucalis as of a 

 Chervil. Leaves not large, twice, or the 

 lower ones thrice pinnate, with ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate segments, pinnately 

 lobed and toothed. Umbels small, on 

 short peduncles, opposite to the leaves, 

 of 3 to 7 rays, without general involucres, 

 and but few bracts to the partial ones. 

 Fruits ovoid-oblong, not 2 lines long, 

 covered with short, hooked bristles, and 

 narrowed at the top into a very short, 

 smooth beak. 



A weed of cultivation, probably of 

 south European origin, but readily 

 spreading with our crops, and now esta- 

 blished in scattered localities over Europe and Eussian Asia. Eather 



Fig. 439. 



