es, LVI. UMBELLIFERÆ. [ Aciphylla, 
scure.—Gingidium procumbens, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 15 ; Hook. f, Fl. Tasm. ii. 
363. ; 
eene ag Summit of Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldfield 
differs from the other species in its short equally- ribbed fruits, and comes very near 
d t 
Gab which J. D. Hooker iy y uces to usticum, but differs from the northern 
geg of that genus in the wan the numerous vitte. The habit is that of some northern 
species of Meum or Gaya. 
13. DAUCUS, Linn. 
Ge Ate prominent. Petals with inflexed points, the margins not re- 
curved, slightly imbricate i in the bud. Disk small, confluent with the conical 
Leaves decompound, with narrow segments. Umbels compound, the bracts 
of the SE aby involucre usually dissected. 
Besides the Australian species, which extends over New Zealand a 
the rai includes the Carrot and a few other species natives of the pa Fe ere 
tus, Sieb. in DC. Prod.iv. 914. An erect or decumbent 
usually inte mueronulate. Umbels of about 3 to 5 very unequal a 
with 2 or 3 floral leaves or involucral e divided into 2 or 3 linear-subu- 
in segments; one of the rays sometimes growing out into a continuation 
of the stem and bearing another compound umbel. Fruit ovoid, varying 
very much in size, usually scarcely 2 lines long, with short bristles, wn 
above 3 lines long, the bristles long and very fine, or wies and dila the 
the base.—Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 295; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 161, oc 
synonyms ur E gen D. pusillus, Mich.) ; Scandix glockidiala, La 
Pl. Nov. Holl. i 
_ Queensland, ea, ian Bay, F. Mueller ; near Warwick, Beckler: pm 
interior, Mitchell. ham, 
N. ales. Port tion E the Blue age Sieber, n. 115, A. es — 
and others; Macleay river, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart ; Darling and Lachlan n 
A. Cunni: ngham, and so ua "d Twofod Be d Maien Port- 
Vict Murray river, F. Mueller; Wimmera, hna: Creswick, Whan ; 
land, ‘Witt. 
Wania Common in the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. F. 
S. Australia. From the e Murray E to St. Vinceut's and Spencer lnc 
Mueller -— Bees Drum- 
King George’s Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Swan River, 
mond, "lat Co Coll. ; Preiss, : 2071, 2073; atone Collie ich., 
. D. Hooker es the Daucus pust 
of the Hs States fN.A ds a utho eras "E. Mueller 
na 3 ear ae a er alv 
Se gh ae aer with numerous rays, and more dissected invalacey 
ta, and must robabl be t ed dist. es connecting In 
D. ebyen with D. Caro ia. Ue : SE 
