Feniculum.] XXXV. UMBELLIFER A. 191 
1. F. vulgare, Getn. (fig. 428). Common F.—Stock perennial, but 
usually of short duration. Stems erect, branched, 2 or 3 feet high, or 
when cultivated, still taller. Leaves 3 or 4 times pinnate, with very 
narrow, linear or subulate segments, rather stiff in‘ dry situations, very 
slender when cultivated. Umbels rather large, of 15, 20, or more rays, 
more or less glaucous. Fruit about 3 lines long, the vittas very con- 
spicuous. JL. officinale, All. 
On dry, rocky banks, apparently of south European origin, but has 
long been cultivated, and establishing itself readily in stony or arid 
hilly situations, especially near the sea, it is now diffused over temperate 
Europe and western Asia. Occurs in many parts of Britain, and may 
be indigenous on the coast of England, from North Wales to Norfolk, 
but not north of it; nor in Ireland. Fl. rather late in summer, and 
autumn. 
XVII. SESELI. SESELI. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial and sometimes 
general involucres of several bracts. Petals white, usually notched, 
with an inflected point. Fruit ovoid or oblong, not compressed, the 
calycine teeth usually prominent. Carpels with 5 prominent, often 
thick ribs, and single, or rarely 2 or more vittas under each furrow. 
A considerable genus, widely spread over the northern hemisphere in 
the Old World. The British species belongs to a section differing from 
the more common ones in habit, and in the hairy fruit, and is united 
by some with the southern genus Athamanta, by others considered as 
an independent genus under the name Libanotis. 
1. S. Libanotis, Koch. (fig. 429). Mountain S.—Stock perennial, 
short, covered with the decayed remains of old leafstalks. Stems stout, 
erect, 1 to 4 feet high, slightly branched. Leaves chiefly radical, thrice 
pinnate, with small, ovate or lanceolate, pinnately lobed segments; the 
stem-leaves few and much smaller. Umbels of 20 to 30 or more rays, 
with numerous narrow bracts, both to the general and the partial 
involucres, Flowers white, crowded. Fruits always hairy, and there 
is often a minute whitish down on the stems, petioles, and umbels. 
In hilly pastures, in central and eastern Europe and Russian Asia, 
less frequent in the west, and wanting in the south. In Britain, 
limited to chalk-hills in Hertford, Cambridge, and Sussex, Fl. summer. 
XVIII. LIGUSTICUM. LOVAGE. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial involucres of 
many bracts. Petals white, notched, with an inflected point. Fruit 
ovoid, or oblong, not compressed, the calycine teeth scarcely distinct, 
Carpels with 5 very prominent acute ribs, almost expanded into wings, 
and several vittas under each furrow. 
A genus of several EKuropean, Asiatic,.and North American species, 
chiefly mountain plants, differing from Sesel¢ in the acute ribs of the 
fruit and indistinct calycine teeth. 
1. L. scoticum, Linn. (fig. 430). Scotch £.—Stock perennial, 
descending into a tap-root. Stem erect, glabrous, thick and hollow, 1 
to 2 feet high, slightly branched. Lower leaves on long stalks, deeply 
