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j B. mOTVHDlFOLKFK, L. Leaves roundish-ovate, entire, perfoliate ; 

 Mirolucre none ; involucels of 5 ovate mucronate leaflets ; fruit with 

 very slender ribs ; channels smooth, mostly without vittxe. Beck, Bot. 



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Kound-lkaved Buplburum. Vulgo — Modesty. Thorough-wax. 



Gallice — Percefeuille. Germanice — Das HasenorHn. Hisp. Buplcro. 



Root annual. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, terete, striate-grooved, smooth, branching. 

 Uavcs 1 to 3 inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to 2 inches wide, mostly ovate. 

 tether acute, mucronate, rounded at base, very entire, smooth, glaucous beneath, 

 (he nerves radiating from the stem, which perforates the leaves at about one fourth 

 ,hcir length from the base. Umbels terminal, spreading, 5 to 9-rayed ; rays une- 

 qual, one fourth to half an inch long. Involucels 5-leaved, or rather deeply 5-part- 

 ed • segments ovate, mucronate, or with a short acuminatum, 5-ncrved, longer than 

 the involucels. Petals greenish yellow. Fruit ovate-oblong, crowned with the 

 broad disk-like base of the styles (slylopodium, DC.) which has a shining waxy ap- 

 pcarance. Carpels with 5 minute filiform ribs ; interstices greenish brown, striale- 

 grooved. 

 tiab. Gardens, and waste grounds: not common. Fl. June-Aug. Fr. Aug.-Oct, 



Obs. This foreigner is not very common; but is becoming naturalized about 

 pardons, in several neighborhoods. There are no native species, and this is the 

 ottlv one which has appeared in the U. States. 



5, Sbsbli Tribe. Fruit roundish on a transverse section. SbsbuKBJB. DC. 



146. POENieULUM. Allans. DC. Prodr. 4. p. 142. 



[Latin ; diminutive of Famum, Hay; from a supposed resemblance in its odor. | 



Calyx with the limb obsolete, a little tumid. Petals oval, entire, in- 

 volute, with a broadish retuse apex. Fruit elliptic-oblong, somewhat 

 compressed at the sides, subterete on a transverse section, crowned with 

 the conic base of the styles. Carpels with 5 obtuse keeled ribs, of 

 which the lateral ones are marginal, and often a little broader. Chan- 

 nels with single vittie. Commissure with 2 vittss. Involucre 0. In- 

 velucels 0. 



1. F. vulgare, Gaertn. Stem terete at base; leaves biternatehf 

 dissected ; segments linear-subulate, elongated. DC. 1. c. 

 Ancthum Fcejiiculum. Willd. Sp. 1. p. 1469. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 323. 

 Ait. Kew. 2. p. 159. Florul. Cestr. p. 119. Lindl. Ency. p. 218. Eat. 

 Man. p. 21. 



Coxmox Fcexiculum. Vulgo — Fennel. Garden Fennel. 

 Sallice — Fenouil. Germanice — Der Fenchel. Hispanicc — Hinojo. 



Root per •enni all (biennial, DC). Stem 4 to 5 feet high, branching, terete, striate- 

 grooved, smooth, purplish green, somewhat glaucous. Leaves large, finely ami 

 somewhat bitemately dissected, smooth; segments an inch to an inch and halflon$ % 

 lubulate-lincar, almost filiform, subdivisions often dichotomous; ctmmon pet iole 

 much dilated, sheathing, produced into two vmrginal lobes at summit. Umbel* 

 mwiy*rayed (15 to 25 or 30), spreading ; rays unequal, 1 to 3 or 4 inches long, groov- 

 ed. Petals yellow. Fruit elliptic, or ovate-oblong ; styles short, reflexed, somewhet 

 empitateat apex, the base enlarged, conical, crowning the fruit. Carpels eemi-te- 

 rete f striately ribbed and grooved. 



■*». 9*rden$: frequent* Fl.July. Fr. September. 



