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2 in. long, ovate to linear, serrate or laciniately lobed; umbels many-rayed; 

 rays ] o to 2 in. long in fruit; pedicels 2 to 3 lines long; fruit less than 

 1 iine long. — (Berula angustifolia, Bot. Cal.) 



Widely distributed from Southern California north to Oregon and east to 

 Illinois. San Mateo, ace. Greene. 



22. FOENICULUM Hill. 

 Stout glabrous perennial with dark green aromatic herbage. Leaves dec mi- 

 pound, dissected into numerous filiform segments. Flowers yellow, in large 

 compound umbels. Involucre and involucels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit 

 oblong. Eibs prominent. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the face. 

 (Diminutive of Latin foenum, hay, from its odor.) 



1. F. vulgare Gaertn. Sweet Fennel. Glaucous; stem striate, branch- 

 ing, 3 to 7 ft. high; rays % to 2% in. long; fruit 2 lines long. 



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

 Co.; Solano Co.; Xapa Valley; Berkeley, etc. A nuisance in vacant lots at 

 San Luis Obispo (Judge E. P. Unagast). 



23. 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 prominent disk. Eibs winged, the lateral usually 

 broadest. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 to 4 on the face. (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 ped- 

 uncles, 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; fru't 

 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 body of the seed. 



Long attributed to Marin Co., but probably by error, since not found in 

 thirty years. Doubtless belongs to the Mt. Shasta region (Alice Eastwood). 



24. 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 com- 

 pressed, elliptic-oblong in outline. Eibs prominent, the lateral broadly winged, 

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

 on the face. (Latin angelica, on account of its medicinal properties.) 



Rays equal, in flower 1 to \]/ 2 in. long; bractlets many, linear-acuminate. . 1. A. hendersonii. 



Rays unequal, in flower 1 to 4 or 6 in. long; bractlets none, or few and setaceous 



2. A. tomentosa. 



1. A. hendersonii C. & E. Very stout, densely tomentose, especially on 



tin- inflorescence and whitened under surface of the leaves; leaves quinate, then 



pinnate; leaflets thick, broadly ovate, 3 to 4 in. long, obtuse, serrate; umbels 



rather condensed; rays in flower equal, about 1 Vi in. long; pedicels 1 line long 



-: braetleta many, linear-acuminate; fruit broadly oblong, slightly pubes- 



