372 —— LVI. UMBELLIFERJE. ës 
species er ber? -— erg wë modern botanists, — 
most of the tem regions of the globe. Both the Aus er species gen 
a wide range, one diy | in EA ege? KE without the tropics, the other in 
America and tropical 
Leaves once or oe "ing with 3 or 5 more or less divided broad or 
narrow segments . 1. 4. australe. 
Leaves ternately divided into numerous filiform segments or "lobes . d 2. A. leptophyllum. 
1. A. australe, Thou. ; Hook, f. Fl. Tasm. i. 160. Stems usually 
prostrate or decumbent, Ie erect, from very short to 1 or 2 ft. long, or 
even more. aves once or twice png ius very variable in size and 
Jard. Malm. t. 81; Petroselinum prostratum, DC. Prod. iv. 102; Hook. le. 
PI. t. 305; ahem australe, Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 294; H. prostra- 
tum, Bunge, Le 
Queensland. ined "Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller 
Fitzroy river, Thozet. 
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ictoria. From the Glenelg di Gipps' Land, E Mueller and others; Wimmera, 
mania. Islands of Bass’s Straits, R, Brown ; common, especially on the no 
shores of the island d, J. D. ` F. 
From the Murray river to Spencer’s and St. Vincents Gulfs, 
Mueller, and others mond, lil 
w. From the S. coast to Swan and Murchison rivers, Drum 
Coll., oe 65, 124, ML and 293, Preiss, n. 2051, 2052, gn eld. s, chiel 
are two common forms, one with short broad v obtuse leaf- T is is of 
hed near the sea; and some specimens from the sea Set of Quee the nii 
Bass’s Straits and adjoining coasts of the mainland sive a a thick — wood 
: e 
" acute linear segments, and often seems too u 
to belong to the same species, but the intermediates between the two are very n 
ally from the he other. d perhaps 
; he species is jer in New Zealand, the S. doge; islands, Antarctic America. an m 
in South Africa. It is very near the the wild c elery of the northern hemisphere e? gra? NP 
Linn.), but that has as generally an t stem, id the ribs of the fruit appear 
much more slender, with broad om between them 
2. A. Set F. Muell. Herb. An erect or diffuse fili- 
glabro rous annual of 1 to 2 ft. Leaves ternately divided into pr eg 
form segments, the lower ones petiolate, the upper ones sessile, with few e 
bi 9 or 3 sle 
dicels, without 
ex, scareely 
short idi by Ribs of the carpels very prominent and thick, Zeg: de 
very narrow furrows, with one vitta under each 
