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lobes. Bracts and flowers pink or white. Central and Southern 

 Europe, and occasionally as a garden outcast in this country. 

 There are several varieties of this, some more highly coloured 

 than others, and the best are worthy of a place in every garden. 



4. TRACHYMME (DuZ&ctw). 



This is an Australasian genus of few species, with the 

 flowers in simple umbels, and the fruit very much flattened 

 laterally. From rpa^vs^ rough, and VJJLIJV, a membrane or skin. 



1. T. ccerulea, better known as Didiscus cceruleus. This is 

 the only familiar ornamental annual species of this family. 

 It grows from 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves triternately divided 

 into linear segments. Flowers bright blue. Fruit tubercular. 



5. FIBULA. 



Gigantic herbs with large much-divided leaves and tall 

 branched inflorescence. Umbels compound ; fruit dorsally com- 

 pressed, almost flat, laterally winged. Natives of the Mediter- 

 ranean region and Central Asia. The classical name. 



1. F, communis (fig. 113). Giant Fennel. This is ex- 



Fig. 113. Ferula communis. 

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