Eryngium.) LVI. UMBELLIFERA, 371 
nodes, each with a small vage globular or shortly ovoid head. Outer 
bracts and sometimes a few of the inner ones linear or lanceolate, rigid, 
pungent and far exceeding the flowers, the others much smaller. Seales or 
vesicles of the calyx-tube sometimes lanceolate and acute, sometimes OMNE 
and obtuse. Petals with x Ver, points slightly jagged.—DC. Prod. i 
92; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 
N. S. Er Port ECH a New England, C. St 
r Melbourne, Adamson; Wendu valley, Glenelg river, Robertson ; 
Portland, 4 Alit ; fb n, Wha 
I Ge , Brown ; marshy places in the northern and central parts of the island, 
E a. Near Bethanie, Gawler river, Encounter Bay, F. Mueller. 
The UR is also in New Zealand. 
3. E. plantagine » F. Muell. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. iii. 235. Very 
closely allied to Z. poliéatin with the same habit, foliage, and flowers, but 
leads are oblong-cylindrical, and the bracts smaller, a few only of the 
Outer ones and very rarely 1 or 2 of the upper ones projecting far beyond 
the flowers, 
, Queenslan R. Brown; Peak Downs, P Mueller ; tributaries of the Upper Darling 
river = (chard ?. 
Australia. Flooded ground S. of Wills Creek, Howitt’s Expedition. 
1 E. expansum ə F. Muell. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. iii. 236. Radical 
leaves oblong or sian obovate, 2 to 3 in. Boss narrowed into a petiole, 
ered by coarse prickly teeth: or lobes. Stems erect or diffuse, dicho- 
. lomous, extending to 1 or 2 ft. Floral leaves opposite, short and broad, 
E, deeply divided into 3 or rar rely 5 divaricate cuneate prickly-toothed lobes, 
Jude in the fo rks very short, each with a small globular head of 6 
ow more small flowers. ae linear or lanceolate, pungent, di at 
rs sca 
e, entire.—Klatt in guys xxix 
: Leichha sland. Ge, on and Burnett rivers a PI F. Mueller ; Wide Bay, 
E? D rdt; Brisbane e river, Moreton Bay, Lege "C. Stuart. 
: mue. Hunter's River, R. Brown 
3 de ns has some resemblance to the tropical American Æ. fotidum, but it is remark- 
T the smallness of its flowerheads. 
9. APIUM, Linn. 
Calys-teeth j EEN, Petals ovate or broad, with a short inflexed 
o $ not recurved, scarcely imbricate. Disk rather thick, con- 
t with the conical base of the styles. Fruit short, slightly co mpressed 
Carpels ovoid, with 5 prominent ribs, the lateral ones close to 
i Ké Narr co . . Il 
the commissure. Ca ophore bcp a Seed nearly E straight. 
~ 9T prostrate herbs, Leaves te rnately or pinnately dissec mbels 
Gg -Opposed or terminal, pires involucral bracts. 
E Whether limited to three or four species, or further extended [^ us several 
