108 



ovate, about a line loiijj,-, v, ith rihs smooth or iriimitcl}' scabrous, 

 and corky coinmissurc much less prominent. (Fig. 114.) — Ap'nnn 

 Butlcri^ Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. x\i, 458. 



In wet grounds, Indian Territory, soutli of the Arlcansas [Butler, in 

 187f>);and Texas, near Houston (Hall 24i. in ls72t, near Dallas (Reverekon, 

 in 1S74). Fl. March and April. 



82. FCENICULUM Adans. Earn. PI. ii. 101.— Stout gla- 

 brous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into numerous filiform 

 segments, no involucre nor involucels, and large umbels of 3'ellovv 

 flowers. 



F. VULCJAKE Giertn., the cultivated fennel, from Europe, 

 seems to have become naturalized in some places, as shores of 

 Maryland and Virginia ( Canby)^ roadsides, Pointe-a-la-Hache 

 Louisiana [La)iglois)\ also on ballast sand near Philadelphia 

 [Parker^ Alartindale)^ and commonly escaped from gardens. 



The fruit of this species (Fig. ll.>) is described under Cicuta bulbifera 

 in Bot. Gazette, xii. 263, and figured in the accompanying plate. The mis- 

 take arose from the tact that a fruiting head of Fmniculum was pasted 

 upon the herbarium sheet with specimens of Cicuta bulbifera, the mature 

 fruit of which species remains unknown. 



88. PODISTERA Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 475.— 

 A dwarf cespitose acaulescent perennial, with pinnately parted 

 leaves, no involucre, involucels of foliaceous 8 to 5-cleft bractlets 

 (b)' the reduction of the rays often forming a false involucre), and 

 white or pinkish flowers. 



1. P. Nevadensis W^atson, 1. c. Obscurely puberulent: 

 caudex Vvith numerous very short crowded branches bearing tufts 

 of leaves: leaves small, 8 or 4 lines long, rather thick, the 8 to 7 

 lanceolate segments acute and entire: peduncles very short; umbels 

 of 8 to 5 umbellets vvhtcb are either sessile or with very short rays; 

 involucels as long as umbellets: fruit little more than a line long, 

 nearly sessile. (Fig. 116.) — Cyiuoftenis {}) N'cvadensis Gray, 

 Proc' Am. Acad. vi. 58(). 



Near the top of Mt. Dana. California, at lo,()00 feet altitude, forming 

 large convex dense mats among the rocks { Rrewer.m \^i\?,, Lcmtnon, \n 

 1878i. Fl. June and July. 



