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UMBEMilFERAE 



15. FOENICULUM L. 

 Stout glabrous perennial with dai-k <^vvrn aromatic herbage. Leaves decom- 

 pound, dissected into mimorous fHiioi-m segments. Flowers yellow, in large com- 

 pound umbels. Involucre and involucels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ob- 

 long, the ribs prominent. Oil- 

 tubes solitary in the inter- 

 vals, 2 on the commissure. — 

 Species 3, Europe, Asia and 

 Africa. (Diminutive of Latin 

 foenum, hay, from its odor.) 



1. F.vulgareHill. Sweet 

 Fennel. Stem striate, 

 branching, 3 to 7 feet high; 

 herbage glaucous; rays i/^ to 

 2i'2 inches long; fruit l^/^ to 

 2 lines long. 



European garden plant, 

 widely naturalized about 

 towns and frequenting waste 

 places on old farms and by 

 countr}' lanes, 5 to 2000 feet. 

 June, fr. Aug. 



Locs. — Whitmore, Shasta Co., 

 Alma Weigart in 1922; Lake Co., 

 P. E. Goddard in 1901; Sacra- 

 mento, Bioletti; Batavia, Solano 

 Co., Jepson in 1927 ; Vacaville ; St. 

 Helena, Jepson 14,234 in 1894; 

 Benicia, Jepson 9064 in 1920; 

 Berkeley, Jepson; Berryessa, 

 Santa Clara Co., Davy 7058; 

 Monterey, Jepson in 1896; San 

 Luis Obispo, Jepson in 1908 ; Los 

 Angeles in 1898 (Dav. & Mox. Fl. 

 S. Cal. 263) ; San Bernardino in 

 1890 (Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 19^:22). 



Refs. — FOENICULUM VULGARE 



Hill, Brit. Herb. 413 (1756) ; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 355 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 299 (1911), Man. 717, fig. 

 701(1925). Anethum foeniculum 

 L. Sp. PI. 263 (1753), type Euro- 

 pean. 



Fig. 269. Velaea parishu C. & R. a, lower part of plant, 

 X Vi; b, umbel, X V2; c, f r., X S; d, cross sect, of carpel, 

 X 7. 



16. BERULA Hoffm. 



Glabrous aquatic or marsh perennial. Leaves simply pinnate, the leaflets 

 sharply and sometimes somewhat saliently serrate or irregularly incised. In- 

 volucre and involucels present, the bracts and bractlets narrow. Flowers white, 

 in compound umbels. Calyx-teeth minute. Fruit roundish, flattened laterally, 

 obscurely notched at base. Carpels with very slender and inconspicuous ribs and 

 thick corky pericarp. Oil-tubes numerous, contiguous, surrounding the seed. — 

 Species 1. (Latin name of the "Water Cress.) 



1. B. erecta Cov. Erect, corymbosely branching, 1/5 to 2 feet high; leaflets 3 

 to 9 pairs, ovate to oblong, l^ to 2i/^ inches long; fruiting rays % to 1 inch long; 

 pedicels 1 1/4 to 2 lines long; fruit % line long. 



Swamps and streams, 500 to 4000 feet: coastal Southern California, thence 

 transmontane through the deserts to Inyo Co. and north to Siskiyou Co. North 

 America, Europe and Asia. July. 



