192° THE UMBELLATE FAMILY. [Faniculum. 
- compressed laterally, without visible calycine teeth. Carpels with 5 pro- 
minent ribs, and single vittas under the furrows. 
A single, or perhaps two species, with the yellow flowers and habit of — 
Anethum, (or Dill-seed), from which it has been separated, as having the © 
fruit somewhat laterally compressed, not flattened from front to back, 
1, F. vulgare, Getn. (fig. 426). Common Fennel.—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 conspicuous, 
F. officinale, Allioni. 
On dry, rocky banks, apparently of south European origin, but has long 
been much cultivated, and establishes itself readily in stony or arid hilly 
situations, especially near the sea, so that it is now generally diffused over 
temperate Europe and western Asia. Occurs in many parts of Britain, 
and may be indigenous on some points of the coast of England, from North 
Wales to Norfolk, but not north of it; nor in Ireland. JU. rather late in 
summer, and autumn. 
XVII. SESELI. SESELI. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial and sometimes genera 
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 differmg 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. Bibanotis, Koch. (fig. 427). Mountain Seseli.—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 inthe south. In Britain, limited to 
chalk-hills in the counties of Hertford, Cambridge, and Sussex. 7. 
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. 
