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of many scarious lanceolate bractlets a third as long as the pedicels: fr. 

 oblong, 2 — 21.2 lines long; oil-tubes 3 — 5 in the intervals, 8 on the face of 

 the carpel. Var. simplex, 0. & R. 1. c. Leaflets linear-lanceolate, entire: 

 oil-tubes 2 or 3 in the intervals, 4 on the face. — The type is southerly, in 

 San Luis Obispo and Kern counties; the variety in Sierra Co. 



14. PIMPIXELLA, Bninfeh. Perennials with decompound foliage 

 and nearly naked umbels. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate or broader 

 than long, laterally compressed but with broad commissure; carpels 

 5-angled, with distant usually slender ribs, and several oil-tubes in the 

 intervals. Seed somewhat flattened dorsally, with plane or slightly con- 

 vex face. 



1. P. apiodora, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 345 (1868). Stoutish, erect, 

 glabrous, 2 — 3 ft. high, sweet-scented: leaves mostly radical, 2 — 3-ternate: 

 leaflets cuneate-ovate, laciniately pinnatifid and toothed, 1 in. long: 

 umbels long-peduncled, 6 — 15-rayed; rays 1 — 2 in. long, hispidulous- 

 puberulent: fl. white or pinkish: fr. broadly ovate (not known in its 

 mature state), 1% lines long: oil-tubes 4—6 in the intervals, 8 or more on 

 the face. — From the Bay region eastward to the borders of Nevada. 



15. PODISTERA, S. Watson. Acaulescent, dwarf and cespitose, with 

 pinnately parted leaves, no involucre, involucels of 3 — 5-cleft bractlets, 

 and pinkish flowers. Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit elliptic-ovate, glab- 

 rous; carpels with filiform ribs, the cross-section oblong-pentagonal; 

 oil-tubes 2 or 3 in the intervals, 6 on the face. 



1. P. Nevadensis, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 475 (1887); Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. vi. 536 (1865), under Cymopterns. Obscurely puberiilent: 

 leaves 3 — 4 lines long, thickish, the 3 — 7 lanceolate segments acute, entire: 

 peduncles very short; umbels of 3 — 5 umbellets which are sessile, with 

 very short pedicels, and equalled by the involucels : f r. little more than 

 a line long, nearly sessile. — A low densely matted herb found among 

 rocks near the summit of Mt. Dana, at an elevation of about 13,000 ft. 



16. F(ENICULUM, Pliny (Fennel). Perennial, erect and tall, with 

 dark green striate stem, and equally dark sweet-scented and -flavored 

 leaves dissected into countless linear-setaceous leaflets. Flowers yellow, 

 in umbels destitute of bracts and bractlets. Calyx with turgid border 

 and no teeth. Fruit oblong; carpels 5- ribbed; oil- tubes solitary in the 

 intervals, 2 on the face. 



1. F. VTOGAKE, Gerarde, Herb. Em. 1032 (1633); Park. Theatr. 884 

 (1640); Ray, Syn. 2 ed. Ill (1696), 3 ed. 217 (1724); Gsertn. Fr. et Sem. i. 

 105 (1788). Anelhum Fceniculum, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 263 (1753). Cultivated 

 from ancient times, and formerly in high repute as a medicinal and culi- 

 nary herb; naturalized in many parts both of the Old World and the 



