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ANTHRI'SCUS* *. 
Linvean Class and Order. PENTA'NDRTAf, Digy'nia. 
Natural Order. Umbelli'fera:, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 218. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 132. — Lindl. Syn. p. 111.; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of 
Bot. p. 4. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p.463. — Loud. Hort.Brit. p. 517. — 
Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 235 . — Umbellate, 
Linn . — Rosales ; sect. Angelicin2E ; type, Smyrniacea: ; subt. 
Scandicida: ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 614, 770, 780, & 781. 
Gen. Char. Calyx an obsolete margin. Corolla (fig. 1.) su- 
perior, of 5, inversely egg-shaped, truncate, or emarginate, indexed, 
often very short, petals. Filaments (see fig. 1.) 5, thread-shaped, 
spreading, about as long as the petals. Anthers roundish. German 
(fig. 2.) inferior, oblong, slightly compressed. Styles (see fig. 2.) 
short, awl-shaped, a little spreading. Stigmas simple. Fruit (see 
fig. 2.) contracted on the side, beaked. Carpella ( seed of Linn.y 
(see figs. 4 & 5.) almost taper, without ridges, the beak alone hav- 
ing 5 ridges. Seed taper, deeply furrowed in front. Universal 
involucrum none. Partial involucrum (see fig. 3.) of many leaves. 
Distinguished from other genera, in the same class and order, by 
the obsolete calyx ; the inversely egg-shaped petals, with an in- 
flexed, generally short, point ; the beaked fruit, contracted at the 
side ; the almost taper carpels, destitute of ribs, except the beak, 
which is 5-ribbed ; and the taper seed, deeply furrowed in front. 
Three species British. 
ANTHRI'SCUS SYLVE'STRIS. Wild Beaked-Parsley. Wild 
Chervil. Smooth Cow-Parsley. Cow-Weed. 
Spec. Char. Umbels terminal, stalked. Leaflets of the invo- 
lutels egg-shaped, membranous. Loaves triply pinnate ; leaflets 
egg-shaped, pinnatifid, rough-edged. 
Hoffmann’s Plant. Umbel. 40 — 46. t. i. f. 19. p. 210. 1 . 1. u. f. 17. fide Don. — 
Lindl. Syn. p. 124. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 131.— Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and 
Bot. v. iii. p.364. — Bab. FI. Bath. p.21. — Mack. FI. Hibern. pt. i. p. 125. — 
Charophyllum sylvdstre, Engl. Bot. t. 752. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. 273. — Mart. 
FI. Bust. t. 96.— Jacq. FI. Austr. 1. 149.— Linn. Sp. PI. p. 369.— Willd. Sp. PI. 
v. i. pt. ii. p. 1452.— Hods. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 124 Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 
326. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 48.— With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p.388.— Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. 
p. 167.— Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 100. — Abbot’s FI. fiedf. p. 66. — Davies’ Welsh 
Bot. p.29.— Purt. Midi. FI. v. i p. 154.— Belli. FI. Cant. (3rd edit.) p. 123.— 
Hook. FI. Scot. p. 93.— Grcv. FI. Kdin. p. 68.— FI. Devon, pp. 52 & 167. — 
Johnst. FI. of Berwick, p. 68.— Winch’s FI. of Northumb. & Durham, p. 18. 
Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 76.— Mack. Catal. of Plants of lrel. p. 29.— Cerefdlium 
sylvdstre, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 501.— Cicutdria vulgaris, Ray’s Syn. p. 
207. — Cicutdria alba, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 1038. n. 6. 
Localities. — In hedges, and the borders of pastures, and fields, in a rather 
fertile soil. Very common. 
Fig. 1. A separate Flower.— Fig. 2. Germen, Styles, and Stigmas.— Fig. 3. 
An Umbellule, showing the fruit, and the partial involucrum. — Fig. 4. The two 
Carpels which formed the fruit, separated, and suspended by the central, thread- 
shaped column.— Fig. 5. A separate Carpel.— Fig. 6. A transverse section of 
the same. — All a little magnified. 
* A name given by Pliny to a plant resembling Scdndix. Don. 
t See Anchusa sempervirens, folio 48, note f. 
