70 



22. UM BELLI FER.E. 



the pedicels; calyx-teeth lanceolate; fruit small ovoid, 

 somewhat compressed laterally, the inner ones tuberculate, 

 the outer ones havinp; tlie inner carpel tuberculate and 

 the outer one irregularly covered with barbed prickles; 

 vitta 1 under each furrow ; 

 carpophore bihd near the sum- 

 mit. Torilis nodosa, Gsertn. 



Waterfall Gully; Willunga.- 

 Sept. - Dec. — Europe; western 

 Asia. 



4. FcENicuLUM, Adanson. 



1. Foeniculuin vulgrare, 



Mill. (1768). Fennel Perennial 

 herb, 1-2 m. (3-6 ft.) high, bright- 

 green, glabrous, strongly aroma- 

 tic ; stems stout, erect, striate, 

 leaves 3-4 times pinnatisect, 

 with numerous long filiform 

 segments, upper ones trifid or 

 entire, with sheaths longer than 

 the blade; flowers yellow, in 

 large umbels <^)f 10-30 long rays 

 on long stout peduncles oppo- 

 site to the leaf ; pedicels of um- 

 bellule 20-50: involucre and in- Caucaiis nodosa. 

 volucel wanting ; calyx-teeth 



none ; fruit oblong ; carpels with 

 o prominent, blunt ribs and 1 

 vitta to each furrow : carpo- 

 phore forked. F. nffiiinaJe, All. 

 (1785). 



Roadsides, river banks, waste 

 places. Nov.-Apl. — Central and 

 southern Europe ; western Asia. 



5. SCANDIX, L. 



1. S c a n d i X Pecten- 

 Veneris, L. T'c«».s'.s Comb. 

 Annual, with short stiff hairs 

 and spreading branches; leaves 

 oval in outline, twice or thrice 

 pinnati.scct, segments short, 

 with linear lobes; flowers white, 

 in umbels ol 2-3 rays; in- 

 vohicre none; involucel of 5 

 bracts, entire or with 2-3 

 lobes, which are sometimes 

 pinnatisect; calyx-teeth none; 

 outer petals larger ; fruit 



Foeniculum vulg'are. 



