370 LVI. UMBELLIFERJ. [ Eryngium. 
tent reen toothed, lobed, or divided, the radical ones narrow. 
int of the petals » jagged o or ciliate 
SE ovoid or glo . 
Stems erect, or rarely sho ortly decumbent at the base. . . . 1. E rostratum. 
2. E. vesiculosum. 
Farm airin E stolon s but not ge, LIEN ed 
ong oblong or cylindrical 3. E. plantagineum. 
al leaves obovate "€ toothed or lobed. Stem. leaves 
aus i short, üivaricately lobed. Stems dichotomous. Point 
of the petals obtuse, en . . 4. E. expansum. 
stratum, Cav. Jc. Pl. vi. 35. ¢. 552. Stems erect, 1 to 2 ft 
high, the lower branches sometimes alternate, but more frequently the 
branches 2, 3, or 4 together, with a peduncle in the fork. Radical leaves 
elongated, usually linear, pinnatifid, with entire or pinnatifid pts 
lobes, but sometimes the rhachis broader-linear, and the lo reduced to 
ones å to 1 in. long, the others smaller, and some not exceeding the dove 
Calyx- tube kadr covered with linear obtuse scales or vesicles. Inflected 
point of the petals ciliate-denticulate or jagged.—DC. Prod. iv. 89; E. 
ës A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 358; Schlecht. pas x 622; 
C. Prod. iv. 89; E. a angustifolium, DC. Pro 1 iv. 95 (from the diagnosis E 
given); E Ee fidum and Z. tetracephalum, Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 293. 
i N. - Wales. Plains of Bathurst and all the grassy lands in the interior, £. Cunning- 
am, Fraser. 
mmon about Melbourne, Adamson ; Wendu valley, Glenelg river, Robert- 
ved Skipton a Whan 
stralia. Near Bethanie, Behr; Guichen Bay, Lofty Range, Torrens river, ett 1 
F. Mueller and um ex 
Swan River and Darling Range, Drummond, 1st Coll. also 
p Foden 40 n. 2053, 2054, and others; Canning, Vasse, Blackwood, and Tone rivers, 
n. 8, 235 
Old- 
i The species is found also in extratropical Sonth pawa = is exceedingly beis 
size, number of heads, and degree of division of the lea In some vigorous specim T 
the heads are $ in. or rather more in diam meter, without the cher bracts, which are 
13 in. long, and some of them with a few bris tly x stie In others heads are for are 
small, and but few of the bracts attain 3 in. id deen ere leaves 
In eral i 
sb abn with narrower more rigid lobes, want in again dree either en 
Ind. 
lobes. Stems short, sometimes dec umbent, almost as in .E. vesiculosum.— 
eg ted Folk a 230; Tweed one Oldfield. 
esiculosum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl.i. 73. t. 98. Sol : 
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shorter. Stems elongated, prostrate, having the appearance x pr i 
not rooting. Floral leaves opposite, cuneate or linear, m Kë 
long, with 3 to 5 pungent teeth or-lobes. Peduncles radica 
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Var. subdecumbens. Radical leaves 6 in. to 1 ft. long, — bus or pra 3 
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