388 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Chterophyllum. 
remarkably woolly. Involucrum none. Involucellum of four or five leafits. 
Umbels either sessile, or on fruit-stalks: (chiefly lateral, E.) spokes five 
or six. Umbellulesy spokes five to seven. Flowers almost all fertile. 
Petals white, small. ( Fruit rough with hooked bristles; beak bifid. E.) 
(Common Beaked Parsley. Rough Chervil: (though as a corruption 
of the following generic Greek compound no longer applicable here.) 
Welsh : Creitheg gwry-chog. A. vulgaris. Pers. Spreng. Hoffm. Hook. 
Sm. Grev. Scandix Anthriscus. Linn. With. Ed. 6. Willd. Curt. FI. Brit. 
Caucalis scandicina. With. Ed. 4. Wigg. (Eder. E.) Amongst rubbish, 
and on road sides. (At the foot of the wall at Oversley Bridge. Purton.) 
A. May—June.* 
CHiEROPHYL'LUM.-f- Involucellum reflexed, concave : Petals 
heart-shaped, incurved : Fruit shining, (not striated,) 
smooth, oblong. 
(C. satiVum. Seeds glossy, cylindrical, beaked : umbels lateral, nearly 
sessile: (bracteaslanceolate. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. 390— (E. Bot. 1268. E.)— Fuchs. 216— J. B. iii. 2. 76—Dod. 
700. 2 —Trag. 471 —Riv. Pent. t. 43—Gen Em. 1038. 1 —Matth. 526— 
Ger. 882. 1— H. Ox. ix. 11. row 1. 1— Louie. 1. 238— Blackw. 236. 
Leaves of an exceedingly delicate texture. Umbels sometimes from the 
forks of the stem; often on fruit-stalks from a line to an inch in length. 
Spokes woolly, generally four, but sometimes three and five; those of the 
umbellules ten and twelve. Involucrum leaf, strap-shaped. Blossom 
white. St. ( Stem one foot or one foot and a half high, striated. E.) 
Common Chervil. (C. sativum. Bauh. Gjertn. Spreng. Hook. Sm. Scan¬ 
dix Cerefolium. Linn. With. Willd. E. Bot. E.) Near Worcester, in 
considerable plenty in the hedge of the south-east side of the Bristol road, 
just beyond the turnpike. And in the hedges in Upper and Lower Old 
Swinford. Stokes. (On a bank near Halesworth, Suffolk. Mr. D. Tur¬ 
ner. Goldington road side, Bedfordshire. Abbot. Lanes near Bageley, 
by Stockport. Mr. G. Holme, in Bot. Guide. Ballast Hills, Sunderland. 
Mr. Winch. E.) A. May.J 
C. sylves'tre. Stem nearly smooth, striated, a little swollen at the 
joints: (umbels terminal, stalked: bracteas ovate, membranous. 
Sm. E.) 
Curt. 273— Jacq. Austr . 149—( E. Bot. 752. E ) II Ox. ix. 11. 5— Fuchs. 
525— Riv. Pent. 44. Cerefol. spiv. — Pet. 25. 2— Lonic. i. 238. 
* (Miller tells us there have been some instances of serious ill effects from this plant, 
when taken in soups by mistake. Curtis observes that when particularly luxuriant, as in 
moist situations, it affects somewhat the appearance of Hemlock, (Con. mac.) but may be 
distinguished by the following particulars. Hemlock leaves are smooth; these have a 
slight hairiness, are more finely divided, and of a paler green : Hemlock stalk is spotted; 
this is not; Hemlock has a general involucrum, which in this plant is wanting; Hemlock 
seeds are smooth, these are rough ; nor has this the strong disagreeable smell of Hemlock, 
but more resembles that of Common Chervil. E.f 
•f (From x ai P UJ > to rejoice or exult, and <pvKXov, a leaf; in reference to its exuberant 
foliage. E.) 
f (It is cultivated in gardens as a potherb, and, (as father Gerard has it, “the seedes 
eaten as a sallade whilest they are yet greene, with oile, vinegar, and pepper, exceede all 
other sallads by many degrees, both in pleasantnes of taste, sweetnesse of smell, and 
holsomenesse for the cold and feeble stomache. The rootes are likewise most excellent in 
a sallade, if they be boiled, and after dressed, as the cunning cooke knoweth how better 
than my selfe.”) E.) 
