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XXXVIII. LAIBELLIFERAS. 
[ Seseli. 
Pet. roundish, entire, the involute segment obtuse. (Involucres 
0.) — Named from fvenum. hat/; its smell having been compared 
to that of bay. 
1. F. vulgdre Gmrtn. ( common F.) ; leaves biternate, leaflets 
pinnatifid, segments awl-shaped or filiform. Anethum Fceni- 
culum L. : E. B. t. 1208. 
Rocks in England near the sea, especially on chalky cliffs. Near 
towns and villages in Norfolk and Suffolk, at short distances from 
the coast, but scarcely indigenous. If. 7, 8. — Stem 3 — 4 ft. high. 
Leaves much divided ; their segments very slender in the cultivated 
form, hut usually shorter and more rigid in wild specimens, particu- 
larly those of the upper leaves. Flowers dark yellow ; the base of the 
styles very glutinous. The true fennel of the gardens, F. dulce, is 
scarcely distinct, and may be the Norfolk and Suffolk plant. 
19. Seseli Linn. Meadow-Saxifrage. (Tab. II. f. 19.) 
Fruit oval or oblong, crowned with the long reflexed styles. 
Carpels with 5 prominent obtuse corky ribs, with single vittce 
in the interstices. Cal. -teeth acute. Pet. obcordate, with an 
indexed point. (Partial invol. of many leaves.) — Named from 
ucc-fXt, originally applied to some plant of this kind. 
1. S. Lihandtis Koch (Mountain M.) ; stem furrowed, leaves 
bipinnatifid, leaflets inciso-pinnatifid, of the lower ones decus- 
sate, the segments lanceolate very acute, umbels hemispherical, 
universal involucre of many leaves, segments of the calvx 
elongated subulate deciduous, fruit villous. Athamanta L. : 
E. B. t. 138. Lihanotis montana Crantz. 
Chalky pastures, very rare. Gogmagog hills, Cambridgeshire ; 
between St. Alban’s and Stony- Stratford ; between Seaford and 
Cuckmere, Sussex, If. 7, 8. — Root fusiform, crowned with the 
fibrous bases of the old leaves. Stem 1 ^ — -2 ft. high. 
20. Ligusticum Linn. Lovage. (Tab. II. f. 20.) 
Fruit elliptical. Carpels with 5 sharp, somewhat winged ribs, 
with many vittce in the interstices. Cal.-teeth sometimes obso- 
lete. Pet. obcordate, with an inflected point. (Partial invo- 
lucre of many leaves.) — Named from Liguria , where the old 
Ligusticum Levisticum abounds. From the latter word comes 
its name lovage. 
1. L. Scdticum L. ( Scottish L.) ; leaves twice ternate, leaflets 
subrhomboid dentato-serrate not glossy, general involucre of 
about 6 narrow leaves, calyx 5-toothed, seeds free. E. B. 
t. 1207. Haloscias Fries. 
Rocky sea-coasts, in the north of England and Scotland, frequent. 
It. 7. — Root fusiform, acrid but aromatic. Stem nearly simple. 
Leaves mostly radical ; leaflets large, deeply serrate, rather fleshy. 
