344 wn LVI. UMBELLIFERZ.. [ Hydrocotyle. 
very thin. Stipules te slightly ciliate. Peduneles E each. with 
au umbel of 3 to 6 very minute flowers. -Pedic els at first very short, at 
on stu outside. Carpophore short, persist 
| N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian peria — Perhaps a — only of H.. 
hispid la. 
16. H. pilifera, Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 26. An erect annual, 
often coarser than the allied species, and attaining 6 in. to 1 ft., although 
sometimes small, more or less hirsute with spreading hairs’ or rarely quite 
glabrous. Leaves 2 in. diameter or more, deeply divided into about 5 
cuneate lobes, Eon again toothed or lobed. Stipules scarious, but more 
adnate to the petiole thay in in most species. Umbels pedunculate, with about 
0 to 20 m inute flowers on very short aere Mies valvate. Fruits 
W. Australia, Drummond, a Coll. (2nd Coll. ?) n. 21 and 198 ; Pinjarra, Murray 
river, Groe 
Var. glabrata. Nearly or quite FS Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. 
17. H. ca MAN F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 178. A minute slender 
glabrous annual, ra rely ex ceeding y in., and often under l in. Leaves very 
sett. —— divided into 3 lobes or segments, obtuse and entire, or shortly 
- or 3-lob tipules broad, Peduncles short, with a head or umbel o 3 
to 6 minute flowers on very short edicels, als | valvate. Fruits about 
the enclosed - pit smooth, the outside engt zë pitte ted and rug 
Victoria. Muddy places often dried up, Port. Phillip, Hopkins river, e Mueller 
s. green rout Gambier and Ms garoo Island, F. Mueller 
W.A Geographe Bay, Old maller 
The species ters from H. pilifera, var. RE chiefly in its minute size and $ 
less-divided lea 
18. H. i. Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 27. -A small gon 
glabrous annual, with erect or diffuse stems of 2 to 4 in. Sc es not i o 
in. diameter, divided to the base into 3 is 5 5 htondig eum tooth 
n by ise? 
transverse” lines, thus forming 1 or rarely 2 pits within the ti E 3 or 4 
outside of it 
| Australia. Dfuomond, 4th Coll.-n. 146. ica 
19. H. grammatocarpa, F. Muell. Frajm. ii 128. A gn 
