No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 3OI 



Zizia cordata (Walt.) DC. (heart-shaped). 



Dry or wet copses. Rare in most districts: Groton 

 (Graves), Branford (Andrews), Farmington (D. C. Eaton). 

 Occasional in Fairfield County (Fames). June — Oct. 



FOENICULUM Hill. Fennel. 



Foeniculum vulgare Hill (common). 

 Foenicnlnin officinale All. 

 Foeniculum Foeniculum Karst. 

 Common or Garden Fennel. 



Rare or local. Escaped from cultivation to roadsides and 

 ballast grounds: Southington (Andrews), New Milford 

 (E. H. Austin & Fames), Bridgeport (Fames). July — Sept. 

 Adventive from Europe. 



The seeds are aromatic, well known for their medicinal 

 properties, and are officinal. 



TAENIDIA Drude. 



Taenidia integerrima (L.) Drude (quite entire). 

 Pimpinella integerrima Gray. 

 Yellow Pimpernel. 



Rare. New Haven (A. B. Eaton, 1859), Stratford and 

 Milford, dry, lightly wooded banks along the Housatonic River 

 (Fames), also at Wilton (Miss A. E. Carpenter). May — 

 June. 



LILAEOPSIS Greene. 



Lilaeopsis lineata (Michx.) Greene (marked with lines). 

 Crantzia lineata Nutt. 



Muddy tidal shores: Norwich (W. A. Setchell), Mont- 

 ville, East Lyme and Old Lyme (Graves). Local or occa- 

 sional along the coast westward. June — Aug. 



LIGUSTICUM L. Lovage. 



Ligusticum scothicum L. 



Sea Parsley. Scotch Lovage. 



Rocky shores of the Sound. Occasional from East Lyme 

 (Graves) eastward. July — Aug. 



