. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 8. CHAEROPHYLLUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 258. 1753. Herbs, our species annuals, with ternately or pinnately decompound leaves and small compound umbels of white flowers. Involucre none or rarely of 1-2 bracts. Involucels of numerous small bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals inflexed at the apex. Stjdopodium small, conic. Fruit oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous or pubesce
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 8. CHAEROPHYLLUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 258. 1753. Herbs, our species annuals, with ternately or pinnately decompound leaves and small compound umbels of white flowers. Involucre none or rarely of 1-2 bracts. Involucels of numerous small bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals inflexed at the apex. Stjdopodium small, conic. Fruit oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous or pubescent, flattened laterally. Carpels 5-angled, slightly flattened dorsally, the ribs slender, equal, obtuse or wanting; oil-tubes mostly solitary in the intervals. Seed-face channeled. [Greek, pleasant leaf, from the fragrance.] About 40 species, natives of the warmer parts of the north temperate zone and northern Africa. Type species : Chaerophyilum sylveslre L. Fruit not beaked, its ribs slender, narrower than the intervals between them. i. Fruit beaked, its prominent ribs mostly as broad as the intervals. 2. C. Teinlurieri. I. Chaerophyilum procumbens (L.) Crantz. Spreading Chervil. Fig. 3113. Scandix procumbens L. Sp. PI. 257. 1753. C. procumbens Crantz, Class. Umb. 77. 1767- Chaerophyilum procumbens Shortii T. & G. Fl. N. A. I : 637. 1840. C. Shortii Bush, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 12: 59. 1902. ]^Iuch branched, more or less pubescent, slender, spreading, ascending or erect, 6-20' high. Lower leaves slender-petioled, ternately decompound, the divisions ovate, pinnatifid, the ultimate seg- ments obtuse; upper leaves smaller, nearly sessile; umbels 2-6-rayed; rays 1-2' long in fruit; flow- ers few in the umbellets; bracts of the involucels ovate; fruit glabrous or minutely pubescent, oblong or linear-oblong, 2"-2i" long, narrowed or blunt but not beaked at the summit, the ribs narrower than the intervals between them. In moist ground, New York and southe
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