Bidwitliane. N. O. Umbellifere. 
TAB. DCCCXIX. 
ApruM FILIFORME, 4. Rich.; 8. trifidum, Hook. 
Parvum omnino prostratum, radice fusiformi, caulibus filiformi- 
bus, foliis ternatim vel radicalibus preecipue quinato- (et tune 
pinnatim) -sectis sublonge petiolatis, pinnis rotundato-cuneatis 
trifidis seepius incisis, umbellis lateralibus paucifloris, fructu 
rbiculari compresso, mericarpiis 5-costatis, costis latiusculis 
semiteretibus elevatis levibus. 
. foliolorum lobis seepissime incisis. 
Petroselinum filiforme. 4. Rich. Voy. de U Astrolabe, Bot. v.1. 
p. 278. All. Cunn. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 2. 
p. 212. Raoul, Choia de Pl. de la Nowv. Zél. p. 46. | 
8. caulibus minus gracilibus, foliolorum lobis integerrimis. Tas. 
Nostr. 819 
aR 
TR. : 
Has. Near Nelson, New Zealand, Mr, Bidwili (n.94 A). 
This will undoubtedly rank near to the Australian Petrosedinum 
prostratum, De Cand., which La Billardiére had more correctly 
placed with Apiwm. Indeed Dr. Hooker, in his ‘ Flora Antarctica, 
has united the latter plant with the Apiwm graveolens, into which 
it does seem to pass by insensible gradations. It is possible, 
indeed, that Petros. jiliforme may prove a link to umite our 
- present plant with 4. prostratum : in other words, that our plant 
now figured may be an extreme variety of A. graveolens. The 
root is fusiform. The umbels are on short peduncles, not sessile 
as described by A. Richard, nor are they so in what we take to 
i Zealand in various localities 
(his . 89, 230, 2047 for example) by Mr. Colenso. 
At our Vol. IV. Tab. 305 we have figured a remarkable form 
of Petroselinum (Apium) prostratum, with unusually long and 
narrow segments to the leaves. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Petal. /. 3. Fruit. jf. 4. Transverse 
section of do. :—magnified. 
