72 ANETHUM F(ENICULUM. 
in quantity proportioned to the age of the patient. The dose of the 
powdered seeds, when given to adults, is from twenty grains to one 
drachm. 
Off. The Seed. 
Off. Pp. Aqua Anethi, L. 
ANETHUM FCENICULUM. 
Common Fennel.^ 
For Class, Order, and Gen. Char. 
see preceding Article. 
Spec. Char. Fruit ovate. 
This species of Anethura is a biennial plant, a native of the 
South of Europe, but has been long naturalized to Britain, growing 
wild on dry chalky soils. It is also much cultivated for medicinal 
and culinary purposes, flowering in July and August. The root is 
white, fibrous and tapering, three or four stems often rise from the 
same root, and are from three to four feet in height, branched, round, 
striated, jointed, leafy, and of a glaucous tinge; the leaves are 
tripinnate, composed of long, smooth, depending, linear leaflets of a 
deep green colour, and stand alternately at the joints of the stems; 
the flowers are produced in terminal umbels; there are no involucra ; 
the corolla consists of five ovate, emarginated petals of a yellow 
colour, and their points turned inwards ; the filaments are 
spreading, shorter than the petals, and bear double anthers; the 
germen resembles that of dill ; the seeds are two, ovate, very little 
_ This plant being so well known, we lliought it would be quite- snperHuoas to ligaro 
It, more especially as it bears so near a resemblance to the Anetbum Graveolens ; on the 
plate of which we have figured (see Fig. c.) the corolla of the fennel, to shew the 
difference of the two species. 
