at. 
86 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Umbellifere. 
nodosis hic illic foliosis, foliis depauperatis, pedunculis erectis radicalibus foliis brevioribus longioribusve, 
involucri 8-10-phylli foliolis radiatis lanceolato-subulatis pungentibus capitulo depresso multo longioribus, 
calyce dense squamuloso. Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 13. t. 98. DO. Prodr. v. 4. p. 92. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, Colenso. Port Cooper, Zyall. 
Roots stout, descending, as thick as a goose-guill, throwing out suckers 4—8 inches long, that do not root. Radical 
leaves tufted, 3-6 inches long, on long petioles, rarely $ inch broad, deeply toothed or pinnatifid; the segments 
sharp, spinous.  Surculi jointed, with a pair of small, cuneate, toothed leaves at the joints. Uméels pedunculate, 
arising from the roots; peduncles shorter than the leaves, sessile, or pedunculate at the joints of the surculi. 
Involucres 3-2 inch across; leaflets eight to ten, very rigid and pungent. Flowers in small dense heads, very 
inconspicuous. Calyx densely covered with imbricating, bullate, cellular, chaffy scales. 
Gen. IV. APIUM, Hoffm. 
Fructus subrotundus, a latere contractus, didymus. Carpella 5-juga; jugis filiformibus crassisve ; 
valleculis 1-3-vittatis; carpophoro indiviso. Semen antice planiusculum. Calycis limbus obsoletus. Petala 
subrotunda, integra. Involucrum et involucellum 0. Umbelle subsessiles, subsimplices v. composite. 
The ** Celeries ” of the Southern Temperate zone are common, smooth, herbaceous, sea-side plants, extremely 
variable in habit, size, and form of leaf. They are by many considered as varieties of the common European wild 
Celery, 4. graveolens, which is the origin of our cultivated stock. I advocated this opinion in the * Flora Antarctica 2 
(p. 287), after an examination of the Fuegian Celery in its native state. This is an admirable vegetable, raw 
or boiled, and forms an erect or prostrate, narrow- or broad-leaved herb, varying in every locality. Mr. Bentham, 
who is better acquainted with the European plant, has pointed out a character in the thick spongy ribs of the 
carpels of the Southern forms, that is unlike the slender ribs of the Northern, and which, in lieu of a better, 
may be taken advantage of, to separate them. Considering how extremely variable the plants are in both hemi- 
spheres, and that the fruits vary exceedingly in size, it still appears doubtful whether there be more than one species 
or not. It is a point I would strongly recommend to the attention of Colonists.—Calya limb 0. Petals without 
an inflected border. Fruit globose. Carpels with five thick spongy ribs. Umbels many-flowered, simple or com- 
pound. Flowers white. (Name from ab, ap, or av, water, in various ancient European dialects; from the wild 
species growing in wet places.) 
1. Apium australe, Pet.-Th.; caule ramoso suleato prostrato rarius erecto, foliis pinnatisectis, foliolis 
sessilibus petiolatisve bi-multi-jugis late obovatis lineari-elongatisve varie incisis dentatis lobatisve, umbellis 
simplicibus pedunculatis vel compositis et sessilibus, carpellorum jugis crassis. Pet.-Thouars, Fl. Trist. 
d? Acunha. 
Var. a; foliolis late obovatis varie sectis. A. graveolens, DC. in part. Fl. Antarct. p. 287. A. decum- 
bens, var. a. sapidum, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Var. 8; foliolis in segmenta lineari-ligulata varie lobata sectis. A. prostratum, Labill. Ventenat, 
Hort. Mal. A. decumbens, 8. tenellum, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Petroselinum, DC. Prodr. A. Rich. 
Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Shores of all the Islands; abundant, Banks and Solander, ete. 
Whole plant smooth, smelling strongly of Celery, prostrate, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Branches many, prostrate, 
as thick as the finger or much less, channelled. Zeaves 3-8 inches long, pinnate; segments broad or narrow, va- 
riously cut, sessile or petiolate. Umdels simple and pedunculate, or compound, and then sessile in the axils of the 
leaves; primary and secondary branches always spreading.—I have seen the two distinct-looking varieties a and 8 
growing from the same stem in Tasmanian specimens. 
2. Apium filiforme, Hook.; caule prostrato filiformi distanter folioso gracili parce ramoso, foliis petio- 
