704 Umbelliferae. 
or bifid. Seed subterete, with a wide and deep furrow on inner 
face. — Glabrous or hairy, erect, branching herbs. Leaves pinnately 
or subternately decompound. Involucre 0; involucels of O or 
several leaves. 
Genus of a few species, growing chiefly in the temperate and subtropical 
parts of the Northern hemisphere of the Old World. 
996, Anthriscus lamprocarpa Boiss. in Ann. Scienc. Nat. (1844), 
p. 59. — Flor. Or. I, p. 912. — Post Flor. Sin.; Syria and Palest., 
p. 353. — A biennial plant 60—80 cm high; stem striate, divari- 
cately branched above, often inflated below joints. Leaves tender, the 
lower ones broad-ovate in outline, 2—3-pinnatisect into long, secondary 
petioles woolly at the base, segments petiolulate, ovate-oblong, 
obtusely incised-dentate, glabrous except along bristly nerves of the 
lower surface. Umbels 3—8-rayed; involucre 0; bracts of the involucel 
5, oblong, acuminate, woolly at the margin; fruit oblong-tapering, 
shinnge 1 cm long, styles scarcely longer than the diverging 
stylopodia. — Flow. April. 
M. p. Port Said, in deep sand, certainly. introduced (Muschler), 
Also known from Syria and Palestine. 
393. (16.) Foeniculum Linn. 
Leaves finely dissected. Umbels compound, without involucres. 
Petals yellow, entire, inflected at the top, but not pointed. Fruit 
oval, slightly compressed laterally, without visible calycine teeth. 
Carpels with 5 prominent ribs, and single vittas under the furrows. 
A few species, with the yellow flowers nnd habit of Anethum (or Dill- 
seed), from which it has been separated, as having the fruit somewhat laterally 
compressed, not flattened from front to back. 
Leaves dissected into capillary lobes; umbels 13—20- 
igh (1s whey oe, aap S wttak Mario smoke aa eX 1. F. capillaceum. 
Leaves dissected into linear, ripidlobes umbels 5—7- 
TAV OQ We cis spuieure pieeie teat On ace ei ert ie mean cmnrs 2. F. piperitum. 
997. (1.) Foeniculum capillaceum Gillb. Flor. Lithuan. IV 
(1781), p.40. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.81 no. 473. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p.240. — Aschers.-Schweinf, 
Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.649 no. 136. — Foeniculum officinal All. 
Flor. Pedem. II, p. 25. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 975. — Rehbeh. Ie. 
XXI tab. 89 fig. I—I. — Foeniculum vulgare Gaertn. De Fruct. J, 
p- 105 tab. 23. — Anethum foeniculum L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 377. — 
Stock perennial, but usually of short duration. Stems erect, branched, 
60—90 cm high, or when cultivated, still taller. Leaves 3 or 4 
