Angelica. | UMBELLIFER2. 225 
Nortu Istanp: Not uncommon on rocky shores from the Three Kings 
Islands to the Hast Cape and Raglan; rare inland, and much less abundant fur- 
ther south. Hawke’s Bay, A. Hamilton! Petrie! Ruahine Range, Harding ! 
Upper Rangitikei, Buchanan! Sour Istanp: Akaroa, Raouwl. Sea-level to 
2000 ft. Koherika ; Kohepiro. October-November. 
This and the preceding species are anomalous in the order from their sub- 
scandent stems. The leaflets are furnished with a pair of minute stipelle at 
the base—one on the upper surface, the other below. 
11, DAUCUS, Linn. 
Annual or biennial herbs, usually hispid. Leaves decompound, 
ultimate segments narrow. Umbels compound; rays numerous ; 
bracts of the general involucre usually pinnatisect. Flowers white. 
Calyx-teeth small or obsolete. Petals often unequal, inflexed at 
the tips. Fruit ovoid or oblong, terete or slightly dorsally com- 
pressed ; carpels convex, with 5 slender bristly primary ribs, 
and 4 winged secondary ones bearing rows of hooked bristles. 
Vittee 1 under each secondary rib and 2 on the commissural face. 
Seed flattened dorsally. 
Species about 35, chiefly found in the temperate portions of the Northern 
Hemisphere, and most abundant in the Mediterranean region. The single New 
Zealand species is also common in Australia and Tasmania. 
1. D. brachiatus, Sieb. in D.C. Prodr. iv. 214.—An erect an- 
nual or biennial branching herb, very variable in size, 6-18 in. 
high, more or less bristly with short stiff hairs, rarely. almost 
glabrous. Leaves flaccid, on long slender petioles, 2-3-pinnate ; 
primary leaflets 4-6 pairs; secondary deeply incised or pinnatifid ; 
segments small, linear-oblong, minutely mucronulate. Umbels 
axillary or terminal, compound; primary rays 4-10, very unequal 
in size; involucral bracts entire or pinnately divided. Flowers 
small. Fruit ovoid, about $in. long; carpels with the secondary 
ridges much the largest, and bearing a single row of purplish 
hooked bristles; primary with a double row of finer bristles point- 
ing right and left.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 91; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 
99; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii. 376; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 214. Scandix 
slochidiata, Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. 75, t. 102. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANDS, CHATHAM IsLANDS: Abundant in lowland dis- 
tricts throughout. October-December. 
The allied D. carota, L., the origin of the cultivated carrot, has become 
naturalised in several localities in both islands. It can be distinguished from 
D. brachiatus by its greater size, broader leaf-segments, and much larger 
compact flat-topped umbels. 
OrpER XXXIV. ARALIACEA., 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or very rarely 
opposite, simple or digitately or pinnately divided, often large; 
stipules adnate to the base of the petiole or wanting. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous or diccious, usually arranged 
8—Fl. 
