GENUS 27. 



CARROT FAMILY. 



643 



i. Foeniculum Foemculum 



(L.) Karst. Fennel. 



Fig. 3142. 



Anethum Foeniculum L. Sp. PI. 263. 



1753- 

 Foeniculum vulgare Hill, Brit. Herb. 



4 J 3. I 756. 



Foeniculum Foeniculum Karst. 

 Deutsch. Fl. 837. 1880-83. 



Perennial, branched, 2-4 high. 

 Leaves very finely dissected into 

 capillary segments ; petioles broad, 

 clasping; umbels large, o-25-rayed, 

 the rays rather stout, somewhat 

 glaucous, i '-3' long in fruit; pedi- 

 cels i "-4" long, slender; fruit 

 about 3" long. 



In waste places 1 , Connecticut to 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri and 

 Louisiana, escaped from gardens. 

 Bermuda. Adventive or naturalized 

 from Europe. Dill. Finkel. Spingel. 

 July-Sept. 



28. MUSINEON Raf. Journ. Phys. 91 : 71. 1820. 



[ADORIUM Raf. Neog. 3. 1825.] 

 [MUSENIUM Nutt; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 642. 1840.] 



Low perennial resiniferous herbs, branching or acaulescent, with pinnately decompound 

 leaves, and compound umbels of yellow or white .flowers. Involucre none. Bracts of the 

 involucels few, narrow. Calyx-teeth ovate. Petals clawed, the apex long and infolded. 

 Stylopodium small, depressed. Fruit ovate or ovate-oblong, slightly compressed laterally, 

 smooth or nearly so in our species (roughened in M. Hookeri). Carpels somewhat S-angled, 

 the ribs filiform, equal ; oil-tubes usually 3 in the intervals, the middle one usually largest. 

 Seed-face cancave. [A name of fennel.] 



Four known species, natives of northwestern and central North America. Type species : Seseh 

 divaricatum Pursh. 



Stem leafy, branching; fruit about 2" long. i. M. divaricatum. 



Plant acaulescent, tufted ; fruit about i" long. 2. M. tenuifolium. 



i. Musineon divaricatum (Pursh) Xutt. 



Leafy Musineon. Fig. 3143. 

 Seseli divaricatum Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 732. 1814. 



Musenium divaricatum Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 642. 

 1840. 



Adorium divaricatum Rydberg, Bot. Surv. Neb. 3: 37. 

 1894. 



Decumbent or ascending, branched, glabrous, 6'- 

 12' high. Leaves bipinnatifid, petioled, 2'-6' long, 

 the rachis narrowly winged, the segments oblong or 

 ovate, acutish, 3-5-dentate ; umbels mostly long- 

 peduncled, i'-2i' broad., 8-25-rayed; rays rather stout, 

 3"-i2" long; pedicels about i$" long in fruit; flow- 

 ers yellow ; fruit smooth, or very nearly so, about 

 2" long. 



Prairies, South Dakota to Manitoba and Oregon. 

 May June. 



