Chaerophyllum


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Read about Chaerophyllum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Chaerophyllum (Greek-made name, referring to the agreeably scented foliage). Umbellifera.-. Scented herbs, annual, biennial or perennial, glabrous or hirsute, often tuberous-rooted, of 30-40 species in the northern hemisphere, one of which is cult. Lvs. pinnately or ternately decompound, the segms. also toothed or cut: fls. small, white, in a compound many-rayed umbel; calyx-teeth 0: carpels with 5 more or less apparent ribs, the beak 0 or much shorter than the body. C. bulbosum, Linn., of Cent. Eu. and the Caucasus, biennial, is the turnip-rooted chervil. (See Chervil.) St. hairy, at least below, 3-5 ft. tall, branching, swollen below the joints, the root tuberous (and edible): lvs. much compound, the ultimate divisions very narrow. L. H. B.


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