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-Flowers yellow, in large compound umbels. Involucre and involu- 

 cels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong. Kibs prominent. 

 Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. (Dimin- 

 utive of Latin foenum, hay, from its odor.) 



1. F. vulgare Gsertn. Sweet Fennel. Glaucous; stems striate, 

 branching, 3 to 6 ft. high; rays J to 2J in. long; fruit 2 lines long. 



Waste places on old farms and by country lanes, flowering in 

 summer: Solano Co.; Napa Valley; Berkeley, etc. 



22. SELINUM L. 



Tall branching perennials with pinnately decompound leaves. 

 Flowers white in compound umbels. Involucre of few bracts. 

 Involucels of many bractlets. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong to 

 obovate, flattened dorsally, glabrous or pubescent, with rather promi- 

 nent disk. Ribs winged, the lateral usually broadest. Oil-tubes 

 solitary in the intervals, 2 to 4 on the commissural side. (Selinon, 

 Greek name of the Parsley.) 



1. S. Pacificum Wats. Leaves ternate and bipinnate, the ovate 

 acutish segments 1 in. long and laciniately toothed and lobed; umbels 

 on stout peduncles, about 15-rayed; involucre conspicuous, its bracts 

 2 or 3, lobed and toothed, 1 in. long and equaling the rays; involucels 

 of several narrowly linear entire or 3-toothed bractlets, equaling the 

 flowers; pedicels slender; fruit smooth, oblong, 3 or 4 lines long; 

 wings thin, rather narrow; stylopodium slightly prominent above 

 the disk; oil-tubes conspicuous, very rarely in pairs, the dorsal ones 

 sunk in the bod}' of the seed. 



Little known: Sausalito Hills, Kellogg and Harford, first collected 

 over thirty years ago. S. capitellatum (Gray) B. & H., common 

 in the Sierra Nevada at middle altitudes, may be known by its 

 tomentose inflorescence and inconspicuous deciduous bractlets. 



23. ANGELICA L. 

 Stout perennials with ternately or pinnately compound leaves. 

 Flowers white in large terminal compound umbels. Involucre 

 scanty or none. Involucels of small bractlets or none. Calyx-teeth 

 mostly obsolete. Fruit strongly compressed, elliptic-oblong in out- 

 line. Kibs prominent, the lateral broadly winged, the others often 

 narrowly winged. Oil-tubes 1 to 3 in the intervals, 2 to 4 on the 

 commissural face. (Latin angelica, on account of its medicinal 

 properties.) 



Herbage hoary; umbels rather condensed; rays equal, in flower 1 to 1^ in. 



long; bractlets many, linear, acuminate XT A, Hendersoni. 



Herbage finely tomentose or roughish pubescent; rays unequal, in flower 1 



to 4 or 6 in. long; bractlets none, or few and setaceous . 2. A. tomentosa. 



1. A. Hendersoni C. & R. Very stout and densely tomentose, 

 especially on the inflorescence, and whitened under surface of the 

 leaves; leaves quinate, then pinnate; leaflets thick, broadly ovate, 3 

 to 4 in. long, obtuse, serrate; rays in flower equal, about IJ in. long; 

 pedicels 1 line long or less; bractlets many, linear-acuminate; fruit 



