ANTHRISCUS.] . UMBELL1FEEM. 163 



spreading or reflcxed, often pink ; flowers white. Fruit %-% in. DISTKIB. 



Europe (Arctic), Siberia, Dahuria. 



A. CEREFO'LIUM, Hoffm. ; stem hairy above the nodes, umbels sessile 



lateral and leaf-opposed, fruit glabrous. Scandix, L. ; Chcerophyllum 



sativum, Gaertn. Chervil. 



Waste places, rare ; always an escape from cultivation ; fl. May-July. Habit 

 of A. vulgaris, but stouter, leaflets broader and flowers larger. Fruit % in., 

 very narrow. DISTRIB. Europe, excl. Spain and Greece, W. Siberia, W. 

 Asia ? Root reputed poisonous. 



21. SESELI, /,, 

 Biennial or perennial, erect, branched herbs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate 



or decompound. Umbels compound ; bracts many, few, or ; bracteoles 



many, undivided ; flowers white. Calyx-teeth prominent or minute. 



Petals notched, with a long iuflexed point. Disk depressed or conic, 



undulate or crenate. Styles very short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, subterete, 



commissure broad, carpophore 2-partite ; carpels dorsally compressed, 



primary ridges prominent ; vittse 1 or very rarely 2 in the interstices. 



Seed flat in front. DISTRIB. Europe, temp. Asia, N. Africa, Australia ; 



species 40. ETYM. A Greek name. 



1. S. Libano'tis, Koch ; glabrous or slightly pubescent, leaves 2-pin- 



nate, leaflets pinuatifid. Athamanta, L. 



Chalk hills, Sussex, Herts, and Cambridge; fl. July- Aug. Rootstoclc perennial, 

 crowned with fibres. Stem 1-2 ft., stout, erect, furrowed, solid, sparingly 

 branched. Leaflets sessile, variable, ovate, petioles short. Umbels when in 

 flower subhemispheric ; rays many, pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles many, 

 subequal, subulate, ciliate, reflexed ; flowers small, white. Fruit A in., 

 broadly ovoid, pubescent; styles slender, recurved. DISTUIB. Europe 

 (Arctic), excl. Spain Greece and Turkey, W. Asia to the Himalaya. 



22. FOINICUI.UM, Adanson. FENNEL. 



Tall, glabrous, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves piunately decom- 

 pound, segments slender. Umbels compound ; bracts and bracteoles ; 

 flowers yellow. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals with a short obtuse point. Disk- 

 lubes large, conical, entire. Styles short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, sub- 

 terete, commissure broad, carpophore 2-partite ; carpels ^-terete, primary 

 ridges stout ; vittse solitary in the interstices. Seed furrowed, flat or 

 slightly concave in front. DISTRIB. S. Europe, E. Asia, N. Africa ; species 

 4. ETYM. The old Latin name. 



1. F. vulga're, Gcertn. ; leaves shortly petioled, segments slender. 

 Sea-cliffs, perhaps native from Anglesea southwards and eastwards to Kent, 



not so elsewhere; S. coast of Ireland; a native? Watson; fl. July-Aug. 



Glabrous, perennial. Stem 2-3 ft., terete, striate, polished, almost solid. 



Leaves much divided ; segments very many, linear. Umbels large, glaucous ; 



rays very many ; flowers small. Fruit long, ovoid. DISTRIB. Europe from 



Belgium southwards, N. Africa, W. Asia to India. 



22*. CORIAN'DRUM, L. CORIANDER. 



An annual, slender, branched, glabrous herb. Leaves pinnately decom- 

 pound. Umbels compound ; rays few ; bracts ; bracteoles few, filiform ; 



