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21. SES'ELI, L. 

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

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

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

 notched, point long inflexed. 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 rarely 2 in the furrows. Seed flat ventrally. — 

 DistriB. Europe, N. Asia, N. Africa, Australia ; species 40. — Etym. A 

 Greek name. 



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

 leaflets pinnatifid. Athamanta, L. ; Libanotis montana, All. 

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

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

 branched. Leaflets sessile, variable, ovate ; petiole short. Umbels rounded 

 in flower ; rays many, pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles many, subequal, 

 subulate, ciliate, reflexed. Flowers small; calyx-teeth subulate, deciduous. 

 Fruit T V in., broadly ovoid, pubescent; styles slender, recurved. — Distrib. 

 Europe (Arctic), excl. Spain, Greece, and Turkey; W. Asia. 



22. FCENIC'ULUM, Adanson. Fennel. 



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

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

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

 lobes large, conical, entire. Styles short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, subterete, 

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

 stout ; vittse solitary in the furrows. Seed furrowed, flat or subconcave 

 ventrally. — Distrib. S. Europe, E. Asia, N. Africa ; species 4. — Etym. 

 The old Latin name. 



F. officinale, All. ; leaves shortly petioled, segments slender. F. 

 vulgare, Gsertn. 

 Sea-cliffs, perhaps native from N. Wales and Norfolk to Cornwall and Kent, 



not N. of it, nor in Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July-Aug. — 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 \-\ in. long, ovoid. — Distrib. From Belgium southd. 



N. Africa, W. Asia to India. 



22*. COBIAN'DRUM, L. Coriander. 

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

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

 flowers white or pink, outer often irregular. Calyx-teeth acute. Petals 

 2-lobed, point inflexed. Disk-lobes conical. Fruit subglobose or ovoid, 

 carpophore 2-fid ; carpels ^-terete, ridges depressed slender, secondary 

 broadest; vittse obscure, solitary under each secondary ridge. Seed globose, 

 dorsally compressed, top and base incurved. — Distrib. S. Europe, N. 

 Africa, W. Asia ; species 2. — Etym. tc6pis, from the Jw^-like smell. 



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