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ovate, about a line long, v/ith ribs smooth or minutely scabrous, 
and corky commissure much Ibss prominent. (Fig. 
Butlcri^ Watson in Proc. Am, Acad. xxi. 458. 
In wet grounds, Indian Territory, south of the Arkansas {Butler, in 
1876); and Texas, near Houston ( Hall 244, in 1872), near Dallas (Reverchon, 
in 1874). FI. March and April. 
82. FGiNICULUM Adans. Fam. PI. ii. 101. — Stout gla- 
brous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into numerous filiform 
segments, no involucre nor involucels, and large umbels of yellow 
flowers. 
F. vunoARE Gicrtn., the cultivated fennel, from Europe, 
seems to have become naturalized in some places, as shores of 
Maryland and Virginia ( Candy), roadsides, Pointe-a-la-Hache 
Louisiana {Langlois)', also on ballast sand near Philadelphia 
{^Parker, Martindale), and commonly escaped from gardens. 
The fruit of this species (Fig. 115) is described under Cicuta bulbifera 
in Bot. Gazette, xii. 263, and figured in the accompanying plate. The mis- 
take arose from the fact that a fruiting head of Fceniculum was pasted 
upon -the herbarium sheet with specimens of Cicuta bulbifera, the mature 
fruit of which species remains unknown. 
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88. PODISTERA Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 475. — 
A dwarf cespitose acaulescent perennial, with pinnately parted 
leaves, no involucre, involucels of foliaceous 8 to 5-cleft bractlets 
(by the reduction of the rays often forming a false involucre), and 
white or pinkish flowers. 
1. P. Nevadensis Watson, 1. c. Obscurely puberulent: 
caudex v/ith numerous very short crowded branches bearing tufts 
of leaves; leaves small, 8 or 4 lines long, rather thick, the .8 to 7 
lanceolate segments acute and entire: peduncles very short; umbels 
of 8 to 5 umbellets which are either sessile or with very short rays; 
involucels as long as umbellets; fruit little more than a line long, 
nearly sessile. (Fig. 116 .) — Cymopierus {!) Nevadensis Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 586. 
Near the top of Mt. Dana, California, at 13,000 feet altitude, forming 
large convex dense mats among the rocks (Brewer, in 1863, Lemmon, in 
1878). FI. June and July. 
