Umbelliferts.'] flora OF Tasmania. L5tj 
pilosis, scapis erectis fructiferis declinatis, umbella simplici parva multiflora, involucri foliolis lincaribus, 
fructibus hirsutis. {Gumi, 245.) 
Hab. Abundant in subalpino situations, as at Marlborough, the Hampshire Hills, Middleaw Flams. 
etc., Lawrence, Gum/, Backhouse. — (11. Dec, Jan.) 
Distrib. Alps of South-eastern Australia, elev. 5000 feet, Mueller. 
A much smaller species than D.pilosus, and of a different habit, probably perennial-— Imvm all radical. v,r\ 
numerous, 3-8 inches long, ovate, three- or five-loin <1 ; Lobes unequal, blunt : glabrous ot sparingly hairy -. petioles 
slender. Scapes several, longer than the leaves, erect in flower, brut suddenly at the base when in fruit, so that the 
main part lies parallel to the ground, the umbel being still erect. Umbel simple, inaiiy-llowere.I. 
Gen. III. XANTHOSIA, Budge. 
Fructus a latere compressus, lobis 5 calycis coronatus; raericarpiis ad eommissuram contractis, 7-0- 
jugis, jugis 2 lateralibus marginantibus. Petala unguiculata, cuspidata v. carinata. 8tjfk tilifonncs.— 
Suffrutices r. lierl);e, Av.y,-'w.v sh llaf'ini pilosa ; foliis lobatis c/, ; w, ■/;.,■,-, ,■ umbellis u.nUanhus (eritiiihilibhsre, 
eapepaucijlor'ts, 'nic<>,„/j/etis ; involucri foliolis sape inaqtialibus. 
extratro])ical; some are shrubby and leafy, others small, siibherbaceons plants. f'/,//W.s few-llouercd, a.xillan, with 
few unequal involucral leaves. Calyx-lobe* distinct. Mericaips laterally compressed, with s,. V cn to nine ridges. 
much contracted at the coimnissure. (Name from £av6o<;, yellow ; in allusion to the tawny hair- 
1. Xanthosia montana (Sieb. Fl. Not. HolL Kxs. p. 248) ; suffrutiooea, tota ton* do - 
cauhbus licrnosis rainosis foliosis, foliis ovatis varie 3-sectis v. 3-lobatis, lulus nbtusis erenatis superne pubes- 
centi-pilosis inferne ferrugineo-tomentosis, umbellis axillaribus inronspicuis breve v. longe pednnculatis 
1-3-floris, involucri foliis 1-3 oblongis linearibusve tomentosis albis v. ferrugineis. — DC. Prodr. iv. 71. 
X. pilosa, Budge, Linn. Tram. x. 361. I. U.f. 1. X. hirsuta, DC. 1. c. {Gunn, 218.) 
Hab. Common in many places on the north coast, in poor sandy or peaty soil, which is wet in winter; 
as at Rocky Cape, Black Eiver, Georgetown, etc., also in Flinders' Island, Gu,ra.— (Y\. Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria and New South Wales. 
Bentham (Plant. Hiigel.) has pointed out the identity of X. pilosa and Ursula, but remarks that A". Montana 
always differs in having one-flowered peduncle- ; 1 find however that the flowers vary from one to three in the Ta- 
manian specimens. It abounds on the south-eastern parts ,,t tin continent of Australia, from Port Jackson to 
Bass' Straits.— A small shrub, 1-2 feet high, branching, erect or prostrate, everywhere pilose or torn 
and branches woody and leafy. Leaves \-\ inch long, on rather slender, short petioles, which, as well as the 
young branches and under surface of the leaves, are when <\r\ den-cK clothed with red-brown tomentuin ; lamina 
trifid, three-lobed or tripartite; segments blunt, entin or 
short or long tomentose peduncles, one- to thm-flow, red. Tmvotmcral leaves lew, linear or oblong, when narrow 
2. Xanthosia dissecta (Nob. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 302) : pusilla, glaberrima, caulibus e radice per. 
plurimis gracilibus diffusis, foliis longe petiolatis palmatim 3-sectis v. bil -is linearibus 
acutis, umbellis parvis axillaribus breve pedunculatis 3-5-floris, involucri foliolis inasqualibus ovato-lanceo- 
latis subulatisve, floribus subsessilibus.— Hydrocotyle apiifolia, A. Cunn.MSs. m H 
Hab. Northern shores of the Colony, at Rocky Cape and Georgetown, Gunn.— (FL Oct. -Dec.) 
