AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 71 



either side rugulose and covered all over with a thick, white, woolly 



tornentum, 



Hab, On barren stony ridges near Cudnaka, in the neighboui'hood 

 of Lake'Torrens. 



90. Seseli (Sect. Euseseli) algens, P. Muell. ; glabrous, glaucous; 

 stems several, generally decumbent, herbaceous, simple, from a peren- 

 nial root; petioles with an ample vagina; radical leaves simply pinna- 

 tisected ; segments trapezoid, trifid or the upper ones cuneate, all in 

 front deeply and acutely toothed, often laciniated ; leaves of the stem 

 from one to three, pinnatisected ; rays of the umbel four to five, un- 

 equal, furrowed, glabrous ; bracts one to three ; bracteoles several, both 

 setaceous ; fruit glabrous, tnincate-ovate, with very prominent ribs. 



Hab. On the gravelly borders of alpine rivulets and springs in the 

 Munyang Mountains ; 5-6000 feet. 



The want of ripe fruit of this plant leaves some doubt about its true 



generic position. 



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several, erect, herbaceous, simple, from a perennial root; petioles of 

 the stem with an apple vagina; radical leaves pinnatisected; upper 

 segments lanceolate- or broad-linear, undivided, gradually pointed ; the 

 lower ones to the middle or nearly to the base two- or three-cleft or 

 again pinnatisected ; leaves of the stem simply pinnatisected or un- 

 divided; umbel with four to eight unequal, angulate, glabrous rays, 

 and with a solitary or without a bract; bracteoles one to three, linear- 

 setaceous, unmargined, sometimes wanting ; fruit glabrous, oblong, 

 somewhat compressed, with sharp prominent ribs and solitary vittae in 

 the interstices. 



Hab, In alpine and subalpine meadows from the Cobboras to the 

 Munyang Mountains; 4-5000 feet. 



Not dissimilar to Seseli Pallasii from Eussia, offering a new and 

 unexpected connecting link between the Australian plants and those of 

 northern countries, since the genus was very scantily hitherto repre- 

 sented in the southern hemisphere, and quite unknown in Australia. 

 The whole plant is of sweetish aromatic taste, reminding of Fennel and 

 garden Chervil, and might, I think, be cultivated to advantage. 



92. Gingidium glaciale, F. Muell.; dioecious; stem robust; leaves 

 rigid, in outline almost ovate, bi- or tripinnated; segments hardly 

 spreading, broad-linear, undivided, acute, mucronatc, streaked, as well 



