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ANETHUM FQENICULUM. COMMON FENNEL. 
SYNONYMA. Feeniculum dulce. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. et 
~ Feeniculum vulgare. Pharm. Edinb. Foeniculum dulce, et Foeni- 
culum vulgare germanicum. Bauh. Pin. p. 147, Foeniculum 
vulgare. Gerard. Emac. p. 1032. Park. Theat. p. 884. Raii 
Hist. p. 457. Synop. p. 217. Haller Hist. Stirp. Helv. n. 760. 
A. Feniculum. Hudson. Fl. Ang. p. 126. Relhan. Fl. Cantab. 
123. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 311. Smith. Brit. 329. ic. Mill. 
Must. 
(Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin-~G@en>Plant. 364.°~ 
Ess. Gen. Ch... Fructus subovatus, compressus, striatus.  Petala 
involuta, integra. 
Sp. Ch. A. fructibus ovatis. 
THE root is perennial, white, tapering, and fibrous; three or 
four stems usually rise from the same root, and are ereét, round, 
striated, of a glaucous tinge, jointed, branched, and three or four 
feet in height: the leaves stand alternately at the joints of the stem 
upon long striated sheaths, and are bipinnated, divided into long 
linear pointed pinne, of a deep green colour: the flowers are 
produced in terminal umbels, which resemble those of Dill: there 
are no involucra: the corolla consists of five petals, which are 
yellow, ovate, emarginated, and have their points turned inwards : 
the five filaments are yellow, spreading, shorter than the petals, 
and supplied ‘with double anthere: the germen is smooth, 
cylindrical, truncated, striated, and covered with the nectarium, 
whigh is a large roundish fleshy yellow substance, divided into two 
parts, from each of which rises a short thick style, terminated by a _ 
