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41. UMBELLACEJE. 
half as broad, a little thicker in the middle than at either end 
and subcompressed or with the commissure or juncture distinctly 
narrower than the transverse diam., without any callous ring or 
swelling at the base, crowned by the erect persistent cal. -teeth 
and elongated styles. Mericarps each dorsally 7-ribbed i. e. with 
3 filiform dorsal and 2 remote dilated corky or spongy marginal 
primary ribs, the interstices 1-ribbed 1-vittate, the 4 secondary 
ribs scarcely less prominent than the 3 dorsal primary. Com- 
missural vittce two. Carpophore obsolete. Colour of the whole 
dark brown with the broad raised even spongy spaces on each 
side the commissure pale. 
The succulent and juicy stalk is often eaten by the country- 
people, but not the root-tubers. The taste is weakly aromatic, 
something like Angelica. Smell scarcely any. 
I Enanthe apiifolia Brot. (Phyt. Lusit. fasc. i. no. 16 ; FI. Lnsit. 
i. 420) by spec, from Dr. Welwitsch kindly procured for me at 
Lisbon in June 1863 by my active and energetic friend the 
Barao do Gastello de Paiva, is a perfectly distinct sp. with a 
wholly different habit and aspect, closely resembling CE. cro- 
cata L., but with limpid aqueous juice as in CE. pteridifolia. 
8. Fceniculem L. 
1. F. OFFICINALE All. Fennel. Funcho. 
St. round and taper, sometimes subcompressed especially 
downwards ; 1. finely decompound 3-4-pinnate, the lower dis- 
tichous; segments of lower!, stiffly divaricate short and rigid, 
of upper feathery or tufted and crowded rather long slender ca- 
pillary-linear soft or somewhat flaccid and drooping, in the up- 
permost or floral 1. very remote few and elongate ; umbels from 
4 — 6- to 10-20-rayed fiat or concave. — Koch 323 ; Bab. 145. F. 
vulgare Kay Syn. 217 ; “ Geertn.”, DC. iv. 142; Seub. FI. Az. 42. 
Meum Focnictilum, Sm. E. FI. ii. 85. “ Mourn Fomiculum a. Spr. 
in Schult. iv. 433.’’ Anethum Focniculum Linn. Sp. 377 ; Desf. 
i. 264; Brot. i. 465; EB. t. 1208; Buch 195. no. 297. — Ilerb. 
per. Mad. reg. 1,2, cc; PS. reg. 2, rr. — Seacliffs or barren hills 
and rocks near the sea everywhere up to 1500 ft., Funchal, 
Magdalena, &c. in PS. scarcely anywhere except in the Serra 
de fora. — Hoot largo pale or whitish, often as thick as the fore 
finger and penetrating deep (2 ft. or more) into the ground, like 
that of Ilorse-radish ( Armoracia rusticana Rupp.), branched or 
divided at the crown. Fl.-st. several, one from each branch of 
the root-stock, 1 or 2 to 4 or 5 ft. high truly herbaceous and 
ann. dying quite down to the root in nut, and winter after the 
seeds are ripe, remotely and stragglingly branched, very smooth 
