Daucus. | LVI. UMBELLIFERJE. 377 
D. Carota, Linn., the arg Greet a tall erect plant, the umbels rather large with numerous 
crowded rays and the bract f both involueres pinnatifid, is amongst the plants cenas 
ie urope and more or be established in Wa places near settlements in Victoria and 
Australia. 
14. OREOMYRRHIS, Endl. 
(Caldasia, Zag.) 
Ee: ^c cmi den Petals slightly concave, with short inflexed 
ts, the margins not recurved, imbricate in the bud. Disk rather broad, 
Bicis with the base of the styles. Fruit oblong or narrow, usually 
lapering towards the end, slightly ri denne laterally ; carpels nearly terete, 
with 5 obtusely prominent ribs, the lateral ones close to the rather broad . 
commissure, with 1 vitta under each forse and usually 2 at the commissure. 
d nearly terete, but longitudinally furrowed towards the commissure.— 
Perennial tufted herbs. Leaves pin Gene) dissected. Umbels simple, pe- 
dunculate. Involucral bracts ovate or lanceolate 
The genus consists apparently of a very few Bei of hia the her ciis X se x 
a Widest range, rmn ng over Mem and Andine America as we w Zealan 
= furrow of the albumen, although not iiid is distinet i in all the "ed I ees LE 
the habit appears zm me to e every m uch that of several Scandicinee. The genus is sien 
a allied to Cherophyllum 
LO, andicola, E»d/.; Hook. f. Fl. Ant. ii. 988. t. 101. A densely 
from NE Ra o oblong, mostly acute. Peduncles eg erect from 
the stock, from 2 or 3 in. to 1 ft. or even near 2 ft. long, bearing each a 
13 229; Dez dici H. B. aid K. Nov. Qui. et Ce 
fe t. 419; Caldasia eriopoda, DC. Prod. iv. "229; Oreomyrrhis 
Ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 162 ; 0. argentea, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. t. 300, and 
E 163. 
N. S. Wales, 
Viet Clarence river, Beckler 
Grassy places in the Sea? districts, F. Mueller, and others aed aem 
Port Dalrym e nd R. Brown. Common in grassy pastures 
à » J. D. 
The species is also in New Z ms and in Antaretie and Andine A meriea. The seve es 
` ibed by J. D. Hooker, which appeared distinct enough in numerous specime 
Roll transmitted from ‘Tasmania, are by no means well marked out in more extensive 
