THE UPRIGHT HEDGE-PARSLEY— continued. 
such a distinctive name as Caucalis semine aspero , flosculis rubentibus , the Bur-Parsley 
with rough fruit and reddish florets, which was used by Bauhin. The name 
Anthriscus seems to be a diminutive from avOppos, anthems, flowering. It is used 
by Pliny. 
The stiff, erect stem is solid, striate, branched, and beset with reflexed bristles, 
and reaches a height of two or three feet. Following the arrangement of the leaves, 
the branches, which spring from their axils, are given off singly from the nodes and 
rise nearly vertically. The leaves are soft to the touch, the lowermost ones being 
on long channelled petioles. The umbels are both lateral and terminal, on long, 
erect peduncles, with short, rough, persistent bracts, as well as bracteoles, and from 
five to twelve rays. The outermost of the minute, usually tinted, flowers are 
slightly radiant and the central ones are frequently staminate. The styles lengthen 
and diverge after fertilisation and the fruit is often reddish. 
Though very common, in hedgerows and at the borders of fields, this plant 
can hardly be said to have sufficiently marked distinctive features to have acquired 
popular names exclusively its own. It is most commonly called Hedge-Parsley : 
Hogweed it shares with Heracleum : Hemlock Chervil is not very distinctive ; but 
Rough Chervil, Rough Cicely, or the very local Lady's Needlework of Cheshire — 
a pretty allusion to the delicate cut foliage — are rather more so. 
The flowers do not seem to be very much visited by insects ; and, since 
authorities differ as to whether the stamens or the stigmas are the first to 
mature in the perfect flowers, it is probable that there is not much difference of 
time between them, and possibly — as is certainly the case in other instances — the 
plant may be protandrous in some regions and protogynous in others. 
Although the bristles on the fruit are not hooked, they are sufficiently close set 
to serve as some protection, possibly against birds ; but they would not prove very 
effective as a bur to bring about the dispersal of the fruit by animal agency. 
