390 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Imperatoria. 
Tawny-seeded Cicely. M. aurea. Spreng. Sm. Grev. Chaerophyllum 
aureum. Linn. With. Jacq. Hook. This very rare plant was discovered 
by Mr. G. Don on the borders of fields, between Arbroath and Montrose, 
and at Corstorphine near Edinburgh. E. Bot. Not to be found in the 
latter station. Greville. P. June. E.) 
( M. aromat'ica. Seeds ribbed, smooth: styles elongated: leafits ovate, 
acute serrated, undivided. 
Riv. Pent. i. 53— Jacq. Austr. t. 150. 
Herb when bruised somewhat aromatic. Sm. Two or three feet high, 
slightly pubescent below, smooth above. Leaves bi-ternate; leafits 
large, undivided, or rarely with a small lobe near the base, pubescent 
beneath. Has sometimes a small general involucrum. Hook. 
Aromatic or Broad-leaved Cicely. M. aromatica. Spreng. Sm. 
Chcerophyllum aromaticum. Linn. Willd. Jacq. Don. Hook. Near Guthrie, 
by the road side leading from Forfar to Arbroath. Mr. G. Don. 
P. June. E.) 
(M. odora'ta. Seeds very large, with sharp, prominent angles: leaves 
large, villose, very compound. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. App. 37 —( E. Bot. 697. E.)— Kniph. 4— Riv. Pent. 57. Odorata 
—H. Ox. ix. 10. l—Dod. 701. I— Lob. Obs. 423. 2. and Ic. i. 734. 1— 
Ger. Em. 1039. 3— Park. 935. 1— Ger. 882. 2— Blackw. 243. 
Leaves trebly winged; littleJeaves with wing clefts. Segments deeply and 
sharply serrated. Seeds longer than the umbellules. Woodw. ( Stem. 
nearly two feet high, striated, leafy, robust. Umbels on fruit-stalks, both 
lateral and terminal. Bloss. white. Central Jlorets containing oi^y sta¬ 
mens. Root fleshy, sweet. Fruit an inch long : whole plant aromatic. E.) 
Sweet Cicely. Sweet Fern. (Welsh: Creithig; Sisly ber. M. odorata. 
Scop. HofFm. Sm. Grev. Scandix odorata. Linn. With. Lightf. 
Jacq. Willd. FI. Brit. Chaerophyllum odoratum. Hook. E.) Orchards, 
waste places, and hedges. Banks of the Derwent above Chatsworth. Mr. 
Whately. Common near Leeds, and certainly wild. Mr. Wood. In an 
orchard at the top of Souston’s Roche, near Shelsey Wash, Worcester¬ 
shire. Mr. Ballard. Llangollen Monastery, Denbighshire; and White 
Ladies near Boscobel, Shropshire. Rev. S. Dickenson. Tixall, near 
Stafford. (At Studley Castle, and Balsal Temple, Warwickshire. Purton 
Woods at Plasnewydd, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Arniston woods, near* 
Edinburgh. Mr. Arnott. Caroline Park, do. Greville. Hook. Scot. 
In meadows between Morton and Rushworth, certainly a native. Dr. 
Richardson; and upon the sides of brooks near Glusburn, in Craven, 
Yorkshire. Hailstone in Whitaker. In every wood on the Team, un¬ 
doubtedly wild; frequent in Weardale, Durham. Mr. Winch. Fre¬ 
quent in Yorkshire; and Mr. Brunton, in Bot. Guide, observes that 
it is the most common umbellate vegetable in Wansley-Dale, and not 
found near houses, but by the sides of rivulets. P. May. E.)—June.* 
IMPERATCFRIA.t Petals incurved, emarginate : Seed com- 
* The seeds have the flavour of Anise, and are used in the north of England for polishing 
and perfuming oak floors and furniture. Mr. Woodward. (In Italy it is considered an 
useful vegetable; and the green seeds, ground small, prove an agreeable addition to cold 
salads. Salisbury. E.) 
-j* (From impermm , empire ; said to allude to its foliage extending so as to master other 
plants ; but is not a meaning more likely to be found in its powerful qualities and supposed 
antidotal efficacy ? E.) 
