Ch/ERophyllum Temulum. Small Cow-Parsley. 
CH^EROPHYLLUM Lin. Gen. PL Pentandria Digynia. 
Involucrum reflexum, concavum. Petala inflexo-cordata. 
Frudus oblongus, lmvis. 
RaiiSyn.Gen. 11. Umbellifer.e Herb-e. 
CHfEROPHYLLUM tmulum, caule fcabro : geniculis tumidis. Lin. Syjl. Vegelab. p. 288. Spec. 
Plant, p. 370. FI. Sute. n. 25S. 
MYRRHIS foliis hirfutis, laciniis obtufis, caule geniculato. Haller hifl. n. 750. 
CH/EROPHYLLUM fylveltre. Bauh. Pin. 152. 
CEREFOLIUM fylveflre. Ger. emac. 1038. Park. 915. 
ANTHR 1 SCUS Plinii quibufdam, femine longo Cicutarise aut Chserophylli. 7 . B. III. 2. 70. Rau 
Syn. p. 207. Wild Chervil. Hudfon FI. Angi. ed. 2. p. 125. Lightjoot rl. ocot. 
p. 167. 
RADIX biennis, fubramofa, albida. 
f ROOT biennial, fomewhat branched, and whitilh. 
CAULIS bipedalis et ultra, ereflus, ramofus, teres, $ STALK two feet or more in height, upright, branched. 
folidus, ad genicula fragiles, aut penitus | 5 
atropurpureus, aut maculis atropurpureis ad- | 
fperfus, breviflimis pilis veftitus, fcabriuf- v 
culus, geniculis tumidis et manifefte llriatis. | 
round, folid, brittle at the joints, either 
wholly of a dark purple, or fpotted with the 
fame colour, covered with very Ihort hairs, 
and roughifh to the touch, the joints fwelled 
and obvioufly ftriated. 
FOLIA radicalia et ramea ex petiolo vaginante orta, % LEAVES next the root and thofe of the branches 
hirfutula, mollia, flaccida, duplicato-pinnata, $ furnilhed with a foot-ftalk which has a {heath 
pinnis fubovatis, obtufis etlobato-incifls. | at bottom, flightly hirfute, foft, flaccid, 
$ doubly pinnated, the pinnae fomewhat ovate, 
I obtufe, and cut into lobes. 
UMBELL/E, florentes ereflas, aut in latus parum in- | UMBELS when in flower upright, or inclined a little to 
clinatas, antea valde nutantes. $ one fide, when young drooping very much. 
UMBELLA univerfalis componitur ex radiis numero | UMBEL : the univerfal one is compofed of rays 
variis, a quinque ad duodecim, exterioribus which vary in number from five to twelve, 
longioribus, partialis radii numero fere du- ^ the outermoft longeft, the partial umbel has 
plicantur. J> almoft twice as many. 
INVOLUCRUM univerfale plerumque nullum, par- 
tiale conflat foliolis plus minus fenis, lan- *j 
ceolatis, acutis, reflexis. j 
INVOLUCRUM : the general involucrum is for the 
molt part wanting, the partial one con fills of 
fix leaves, more or lefs, which are lanceolate, 
pointed, and turned back. 
COROLLA: the univerfal corolla fomewhat uniform, 
the florets of the difk rarely abortive, unlefs 
in thofe which flower late, each individual 
compofed of five white petals, which, having 
the tip bent inward, become heart-fliaped, 
the outermoft ones rather large ft, j£g-. 1. magn. 
; STAMINA : five white Filaments; Anthers 
> whitifh, Jig. 2. 
> PISTILLUM : Germen beneath the flower; Styles 
j two, reflexed; Stigmata blunt, fig . 3. 
:» SEEDS oblong, fmooth, brown, pointed, on the infide 
? hollow, on the outfi de faintly and bl u ntly mark- 
ed with five grooves, the angles paler. Jig. 4. 
The Chcerophyllum temulum is nearly as common a plant as the folvettrr ^ r it 
:^pZ«r fined to “ *» 
ou?X? ? ftin S uilh it not only f rom t he 
not : ** ALLEIt - w it° rea d almoft We kll ° W 
The feeds afford the beft diftinftion of the genus Cheer nbhvlh,™ , . 
the moft part wanting, both in this fpecies and th zfylvejlre, * 3 genaal involucrum being with us for 
COROLLA univerfalis fubuniformis, flofeulis difei 
raro nifi in fero florentibus abortientes; pro- 
pria petalis quinque, albis, inflexo-cordatis, 
exterioribus paulo majoribus, fig. 1. au 6 l. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque alba : Anthera: 
albidas, fig. 2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen inferum; Styli duo re- 
flexi; Stigmata obtufa, fig. 3. 
SEMINA oblonga, glabra, fufea, acuta, intus con- 
cava, extus obfolete et obtufe quinque ful- 
cata, angulis pallentibus,^. 4. 
