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unequal, and fruit produced into a very long slender beak. (Name, 

 the Greek name for some allied plant.) 



1. S. Pec/en- Veneris (Shepherd's Needle, Venus' Comb). — A 

 small plant, 3 — 9 in. high, with finely-cut bright-green leaves ; 

 few-rayed umbels of small white flowers; and long, beaked fruits. 

 — A weed in cultivated ground ; common. But for the ovary 

 being inferior, this plant might be mistaken for an Erbdium. — 

 Fl. June — September. Annual. 



scXndix pecten-veneris {Shepherd's Needle, Venus Comb). 



23. Seseli (Meadow Saxifrage). — Erect branched plants ; leaves 

 2 — 3- or more-pinnate ; umbels compound ; bracts and bracteoles 

 many, entire ; flowers white sepals acute ; fruit short, with no 

 beak or bristles and blunt ridges. (Name of Greek origin.) 



1. S. Liba?ibtis (Mountain Meadow Saxifrage). — A stout plant, 

 r — 2 feet high, with a solid, furrowed stem ; bipinnate leaves ; 

 hemispherical umbels ; hairy fruit ; and persistent, refiexed styles. 

 — Chalk-hills, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Sussex. — Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



24. F(eniculum (Fennel). — Tall, smooth plants, with decom- 



