874 . LVI. UMBELLIFERJE. . [Seseli. 
Victoria. Gravelly borders of alpine rivulets and springs, in the Munyong mountains, 
ks P 
F. Mueller. 
ll. CRANTZIA, Nutt. 
Calyx-teeth shortly prominent. Petals acute, concave, the margins not re- 
curved, imbricate in the bud. Disk scarcely distinct from the conical base 
of the styles. Fruit broadly ovoid, very slightly laterally compressed. Car- 
pels nearly terete, with 5 corky ribs, the lateral ones forming a thick mass 
at the rather broad commissure, with 1 vitta under each furrow and 2 at 
the commissure. Carpophore not separating from the carpels. Albumen 
of the seed terete.—Small creeping herb. Leaves linear-terete, undivided. 
Umbels simple, with minute involucral bracts. 
The genus i#confined to a single species, extending to New Zealand and extratropical and 
Andine America. 
1. C. lineata, Nutt. Gen. Pl. N. Amer. i. 178. Stems or rhizomes 
slender creeping and rooting at the nodes. Leaves solitary or tufted at the 
nodes, slender, fistulose, marked with transverse nodes, from under 1 in. in some 
bh s : 
pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. Fruits very small.—DC. Prod. iv. 71; Hook 
Tasm. i. 160, and Fl. Antaret. 287. t. 100; Wedd. Chlor. And. ii. t. 
68.— C. australica, P. Muell. 2nd Gen. Rep. according to Klatt, Linnea, 
xxix. 714, 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Mrs. Dietrich. 
N.S. Wales. Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 
Victoria. Mouth of Snowy River, Yarra river, F. Mueller ; Barwan river, oM 
a tle. Islands of Bass’s Straits, R. Brown; marshes near Launceston, etc, ++ 
- Hooker, 
S. Australia. St. Vincent’s Guf, F. Mueller. 
12. ACIPHYLLA, Forst. : 
Calyx-teeth more or less prominent. Petals ovate or lanceolate, often mM- 
— at the tip but not acuminate, the margins not recurved, imbricate in 
e H M H 
mal species) oblong, somewhat dorsally compressed ; carpels dorsall [os 
em with 5 (rarely 4 or 3) acutely prominent ribs, the lateral ones i r- 
mixture of perfect ones, but some males often intermixed in the | 
perfect flowers, to 
, The genus extends to New Zealand and the Antarctic islands. F. Mueller Ët 
Eeer it the whole of the species published by J. D. Hooker as Antsotome, — ligt- 
orster’s name of Gingidium for the collective genus, or to reduce it altogether 
: 
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