MACLOSKIE I UMBELLIFER/E. 635 



Involucral leaves distinct, short, slightly spreading. Flowers yellow. 

 (Perhaps a var. of M. spinosum. Is scarcely proliferous.) 

 S. Patagon., Puerto Deseado ; Rio Sta. Cruz. 



8. MULINUM SPINOSUM Pers. 



Stem 15 cm. high. Leaves 5-partite, the segments lanceolate, pungent; 

 the petioles sheathing the base of the stem. Umbel io-i2-flowered. In- 

 volucral leaves distinct, short, spreading. Flowers orange. 



(Chilian Andes) ; S. Patagon., by Rio Gallegos, Nordenskj.; by Lago 

 Nahuel-huapi (Dusen), and Rio Chubut. 



M. SPINOSUM TRIACANTHUM (GHs.) O. KtZC. 



Leaves trisect, i cm. long. Umbel more or less sessile. 

 Patagon. 



M. SPINOSUM TRISPINESCENS O. KtZC. 



Leaves tripartite ; segment spiniform, usually longer. Umbel pe- 

 duncled. 



(Argentine) ; Patagon. 



9. M. ULICINUM Gill. & Hook. 



Glabrous, much branched, low, odoriferous. Leaves trifid ; segments 

 subulate, spiny. Umbels nearly sessile, terminating the very short 

 branches. Involucral leaves linear-subulate. Petals with an elevated 

 median line. Fruit elliptic. 



(Chili); S. Patagon., by Hatcher near Rio Chico. 



IO. M. VALENTINI Speg. 



Cespitose, dioecious. Leaves subimbricate, recurved, spreading, rigid, 

 trisect, the segments triangular-linear, obtuse, sulcate-nervous on upper 

 surface ; petioles short. Umbels subacrogynous, having 4-6 small, yellow 

 flowers. 



Patagon.; Chubut, near Trelew. 



6. SANICULA Linn. 



Glabrous herbs, with palmately, 3-7-foliolate or pinnatifid leaves, and 

 compound, few-rayed umbels, with leafy involucres and small involucels. 

 Calyx-teeth persisting ; petals obovate with an inflected point. Fruit sub- 

 globose with hooked bristles or muricate. Oil-tubes 5. 



Species 20, N. temperate, and in S. Amer. and S. Africa. 



