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Fennel

Common fennel is a well-known biennial plant cultivated in our gardens chiefly for its leaves, which are boiled, and served up with several kinds of fish, and especially with mackerel and salmon. Sometimes the leaves are employed to form a fish-sauce. The species of fennel known as sweet fennel is cultivated as a pot-herb in Italy and Portugal, of which countries it is a native.