Pimpinella UMBELLIFERAE Oenanthe 



volucre usually wanting; involucel wanting or inconspicuous; fls. white or tinged 

 with color; ovaries pubescent; marginal fls. usually radiant: fr. compressed laterally, 

 glabrous to pubescent. More than 100 species in Eurasia, perhaps a dozen from 

 China. (The old Latin name.) 



1. Pimpinella diversifolia DC. (DC. P. 4:122). Perennial herb; fls. white; basal lvs. 

 simple or ternate, the upper dissected. Eurasia; locally in Che. Moist ground. 



11. Foeniculum Adans. Fennel fHHH (Huai Hsiang Shu) 



Stout erect glaucous anise-scented biennial or perennial herbs with pinnately de- 

 compound lvs.: If. segments linear or filiform: fls. yellow, in compound umbels; 

 involucels absent; ovaries glabious: fr. oblong, not strongly compressed, with prom- 

 inent ribs; oil tubes solitary between the ribs. 4 species, in the eastern hemisphere; 

 1 in China. (Latin: diminutive of foenum, hay, from its odor.) 



1. Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Fennel §||| (Huai Hsiang) (B.M. 751). Erect peren- 

 nial, to 2 m.; fls. yellow, VII; fr. VIII. Southern Europe, naturalized in North 

 America, Africa, New Zealand and Australia; locally in An., Hun., Ki., Ku. 

 Cultivated, condiment. Fig. 276. 



12. Petroselinum Hoffm. ffiWUrM (Ho Lan Ch'in Shu) 



Annual, biennial or perennial, green parsley-scented herbs with ternately decom- 

 pound lvs.: fls. reddish or greenish yelloiv, in compound umbels; ovaries glabrous; 

 involucel present: fr. ovoid to oblong, laterally compressed, the carpels curving out- 

 ivard and joined only at the base and apex. 6 species, in Europe; one cultivated in 

 China. (Greek: petro, rock, and selinon, parsley. 



1. Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Mansf. (P. hortense Hoffm.) Parsley fnfjU/T (Ho 

 Lan Ch'in; Holland Celery) (B.M. 753). Bushy herb, to 8 dm.; fls. greenish yellow. 

 Introduced from Europe; locally in An., Che., Ku. Cultivated, vegetable. 



13. Apium Linn. /fS (Ch'in Shu) 



Annual or perennial herbs with pinnately or ternately decompound lvs.: fls. white, 

 in compound umbels; involucre and involucels wanting: fr. broader than long, laterally 

 compressed. 20 species, widely distributed in temperate regions; 2 in China. (The 

 Latin name for parsley.) 



1. Apium graveolens Linn. var. dulce DC. ffM (Ch'in Ts'ai; Celery) (B.M. 755). 

 Erect biennial; fls. white. Presumably from the Mediterranean region, introduced 

 in Ku. Cultivated, vegetable. 



14. Oenanthe Linn. 7,k/fl§ (Shui Ch'in Shu) 

 Herbs, growing in wet places, with fibrous or fascicled tuberous roots and 1-3- 

 pinnate lvs. which are toothed but not dissected (rarely reduced to a naked petiole): 

 fls. often polygamous, white, the staminate sometimes unequally rayed; calyx teeth 

 prominent, acute, persistent; petals notched or bilobed; styles slender, erect, persistent; 

 ovary glabrous: fr. cylindric or globose, usually subterete, with low, corky ribs; 

 mericarps with a flat inner face. 30 species, in the northern hemisphere and South 

 Africa; 6 in China. 



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