Aciphylia. | LVI. UMBELLIFERZ. e 375 
bom, 
rather to gg and the true Aciphylle appear to me » to form as natural and well cha- 
racterized a genus as the majority of those now adopted in —— Whether those 
V eally 
tomes, now reduced by Hooker to Ligusticum, ought r to be regarded as con- 
geners of the northern ce can only be determined by a care fal comparison of the nu- 
ied genera in the northern hemisphere 
gd ee erect E. Sika del the lateral ribs or wings twice as 
as the o 
vag d e to long simple bs tt articulate petioles. . 1. A. simplicifolia. 
Leaves dissected with linear segm 2. A. glacialis. 
Small densely REOR or pose: Pant ' Fruits ovoid, the ribs all ` 
equal. Leaves dissected . . 3. A. procumbens. 
L A. e : Muell, m a | Gingidium). Stems from a densely 
tufted stock erect, rigid, 1 to 2 ft. high, with a short linear leaf or bract under 
each brane Leaves otherwise radical, narrow-linear, 6 in. to } ft. long, 
obtuse, terete or flattened towards the end, stri nd marked with trans- 
end, 
verse raised lines, giving them an articulate appearance, undivided, with 
broad sheathing: bas Umbel on the main ste ore unequal 
rays, those on the lateral branches smaller. General involucre of 4 
d a 
often very obscure. a leie simplizifolien, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. 
Vict. i. 104, Pl. Vict. t. 27, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 72. 
Victoria. Moist md subalpine pastures from Mount Wellington to the Munyong 
mountains, F. Muel? eller 
2. A. ideis F. Mes as a Gingidium). Stems from a densely 
tufted stock erect, rigid, 1 wea high. Leaves chiefly radical, once or 
Fn segments = entire. Umbels of several often very unequal rays. 
_ Pacts of the general involucre linear-lanceolate, shorter than the rays, of the 
involucres small an w etals ovate. Fruit oblong, 4 to Š 
and in Hook, Kew Pos . vlii. 
Zoé regions of the Australian Alps, at an e of 5 to 7000 ft., F. 
With the membranous imbricated sheaths of old do Leaves 
in 
i ls ovate 
us edges. Calyx-teeth half as long as the petals. Peta 
NIS Frui t oval. about 14 lines long, the ribs all CN c 
ment and almost winged, équal or irregularly unequal. Vittæ ob- 
