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No. 1. Ovate-triangular in outline, tripinnatisect with small 

 subulate or lanceolate, cuspidate segments. 



No. 2. Triangular in outline, three to four times pinnatisect, 

 with very small subulate or lanceolate, acute, segments. 



Foeniculum vnlgare, Gaertn. (fig. 413). 



Primary root long, tapering downwards and giving off lateral 

 fibres, colourless. 



Hypocotyl undeveloped, or subterranean and indistinguishable 

 from the root. 



Cotyledons linear, obtuse, entire, petiolate, deep green, glabrous, 

 with inconspicuous or indiscernible vena- 

 tion ; lamina hardly broader than the petiole, 

 and tapering insensibly into it, and together 

 with the petiole 3-8'5 cm. long ; petioles 

 flattened or shallowly grooved above, dilated, 

 and connate at the base forming a sheath 

 or cup around the plumule, covered with 

 earth at the base. 



Stem herbaceous, forming a perennial 

 rootstock, and throwing up annual flowering 

 stems ; primary internodes undeveloped. 



Leaves simple, pinnately multisect, 

 radical and cauline, alternate, exstipulate, 

 petiolate, glabrous, deep glaucous-green, 

 with primary, secondary, tertiary, and 

 quaternary, alternate, ascending nerves ; 

 petioles much dilated and sheathing at the 

 base, glabrous, deep glaucous-green ; first 

 one channelled above ; second terete and 

 slightly channelled towards the apex, sub- 

 striate. 



No. 1. Triangular, acute, bipinnatisect 

 with linear acute segments, generally widest 

 about the middle. 



No. 2. Three to four times pinnatisect, with slender, linear, 

 acute segments. 



Aciphylla squarrosa, Forst. (fig. 414). 



Hypocotyl subterranean. 



Cotyledons linear, acute, coriaceous, flattened above, convex on 

 the back, glabrous, lucid, dilated and sheathing at the base, pale 

 green, 3'6-4'3 cm. long, 1 mm. wide. 



B 2 



FIG. 413. 



Fceniculum vulgare 

 Half nat. size. 



