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11. FCENICULUM. Hoffm. Fennel. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, involute, narrower apex ob- 

 tuse. Fruit subterete. Carpels with five prominent obtuse 

 keeled ridges, of which the lateral ones are marginal and a 

 little broader. Interstices with single vitta. Seeds subsemi- 

 terete. Universal emd partial involucre 0. Name from fcenum, 

 hay, its smell being compared to that of hay. 



Pentandria. Digynia. 



1. F. vulgare, Gaertn. Common Fennel. Leaves biternate ; 

 leaflets linear, filiform, pinnatifid, segments awl-shaped. Br. 

 Ft. 1. p. 122. Anethum Fceniculum, Linn.E. Bot. t. 1208. 

 Meum Fceniculum, Spreng. E. FL v. ii. p. 85. 



Gravelly banks near towns and villages. Plentiful by the side of 

 the new road between Bray and the Dargle, also near Clonskeagh and 

 Chapelizud. At Carrickadrohid Castle, County of Cork ; Mr. J. 

 Drummond. Fl. July, Aug. 1. Stems three to four feet high, fistu- 

 lose. Leaves much divided with very slender segments. Flowers 

 dark yellow, at the base of the styles very glutinous. This is the true 

 Fennel of the gardens, which is frequently used for garnishing salmon. 



12. CENANTHE. Linn. Water-Dropwort. 



Calyx of five teeth. Petals obcordate with an inflexed point. 

 Fruit subterete, crowned with the straight styles. Carpels 

 with five, blunt convex ridges, of which the lateral ones are 

 marginal and a little broader. Interstices with single vittce. 

 Seed tereti-convex ; axis none. Universal involucre various, 

 partial of many leaves. Flowers of the ray on long pedicels, 

 sterile ; those of the disk sessile or shortly pedicellate, fertile. 

 Name from OLVIJ, a vine, and avOos, a flower, alluding to the 

 vinous smell of the blossoms. Pentandria. Digynia. 



1. CE. fistulosa, Linn. Common Water- Drop wort. Root 

 stoloniferous ; stem-leaves pinnated, their main stalk as well as 

 the stem cylindrical, tubular ; umbels of very few rays. 

 Br. Fl. \.p. 123. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 68. E. Bot. t. 363. 



Ditches and rivulets, common. FL July, Aug*. If . Plant two to 

 three feet high, remarkably tubular and fistulose. Stern-leaves distant, 

 and the leaflets, which are few and small, are confined to the upper 

 extremity of the leaves. Umbels small. Gen. involucre often 

 wanting. 



2. CE. pimpijtelloides, Linn. Parsley Water-Dropwort. Leaf- 

 lets of the radical leaves wedge-shaped, cloven, those of the 

 stem linear, entire, very long ; general involucre of several linear 

 leaves. Br. Fl. I. p. 123. E.Fl. v il.p. 69. E. Bot. t. 447. 



Salt marshes, not unfrequent. West side of Lambay ; Mr. Under- 

 wood. Near Baldoyle, Portmarnock Strand, and by the lake near 



