Flora Medica

ANTHRISCUS.ANTHRISCUS.Calyx obsolete. Petals obovate, truncate or emarginate, withan inflexed lobe which is generally very short. Fruit contractedat the side, beaked : the beak shorter than the seed. Half-fruitsnearly taper, without ridges except on the beak which has 5.Perennials, biennials, or annuals. Stems taper, striated or furrowed.Leaves decompound; segments generally linear andfine. Umbels opposite the leaves or terminal. Involucre none ;involucels many-leaved. Flowers white.119. A. sylvestris Hoffm. umbellif. t. i. f. 19. DC. prodr.iv. 223. Nees and Eberm. med. pi. suppl. handb. iii. 30. Chaerophyllumsylvestre Linn. sp. plant. 369. Eng. Bot. t. 762 Acommon weed all over Europe as far as the Caucasus.Stem furrowed, smooth, branched. Leaves 3-cut decompound ;segments ovate pinnatifid; lobes oblong rather obtuse, the end oneslongest. Umbels terminal ; rays smooth. Styles very short, scarcelydiverging. Fruit oblong smooth. Recommended by Osbeck, in1811, in the form of extract in siphilitic cases. Reputed to besimilar in its effects to Hemlock only rather less narcotic. (HerbaCicutariae Officin.}120. A. vulgaris Pers. synops.i. 320. DC. prodr. iv. 224.Scandix Anthriscus Linn. sp. pL 368. Eng. Bot. t. 818. Acommon annual weed, as far as the Crimea. (Rough Chervil.)Stem naked, smooth. Leares 3-parted decompound; segmentspinnatifid; lobes short, obtuse ; petioles hairy ;sheaths ciliated. Umbelsopposite the leaves. Fruit ovate, muricated, bristly, with a conicalbeak. Deleterious. Some Dutch soldiers who gathered itby mistakefor common Chervil were poisoned by the soup into which it wasput. Burnett.121. A. Cerefolium Hoffm. umb. t. i. f. 21. DC. prodr.iv. 223. Nees and Eberm. handb. iii. 31. Scandix CerefoliumLinn. sp. plant. 368. Eng. Bot. 1. 1268. Chaerophyllum sativumLam. Cultivated grounds and waste places all over Europe.(Chervil.)Nearly smooth. Leaves 3-parted, decompound ; segments ovatepinnatifid, with rather blunt lobes. Umbels opposite the leaves,sessile. Rays from 3 to 5, downy. Fruit oblong, linear, smooth. Acommon potherb, with eatable roots.CACHRYS.Calyx 5-toothed or more rarely obsolete. Petals ovate entireinvolute or inflexed at the apex. Disk depressed, scarcelyvisible irthe ripe fruit. Fruit turgid, somewhat taper or double.Half-fruits with 5 thick ridges variable in form. Commissurenearly as broad as the half-fruit. Seed loose, covered with numerousvittae, deeply rolled inwards. Perennials. Leaves de-55 E4