Herb. [See COW sb.1 9.] Wild Chervil or Cow-parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
1744. Watson, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 21. They first gather’d me the Cicutaria vulgaris of John Bauhin, or Cow-weed. Ibid. (1761), LII. 90. The Cicutaria vulgaris of the botanists … in some parts of England is called cow-weed, in others wild cicely.
1777. J. Lightfoot, Flora Scot. (1792), I. 167. Chærophyllum sylvestre, Wild cicely or cow-weed.
