158 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Umbellifei 
i (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 470). 
Var. mffocata; densissime compacta, foliis integerrimis.— H. suffocata, Nob. I.e. (Gunn 1970) 
(Tab. XXXVI. A.) 
Var. tridentata; foliis apice trilobis tridentatisve. — H. tridentata, Nob. I. c. (Gunn 1969 ) (Tab 
XXXVI. B.) ' ' } l 
Var. fulva ; foliis grosse crenatis, calycis lobis ciliatis.— H. bellidioides, Nob. I. c. (Tab. XXXVI. C.) 
Var. affinut; foliis subcrenatis, calycis lobis glaberrimis.— H. affinis, Nob. 1. c. (Tab. XXXVI. D.) 
Hab. On Mount Fatigue, south-south-west of Lake St. Clair, elev. 4000 feet; also at Recherche 
Bay, Gunn.— (Y\. Oct. Nov.) 
This is one of the most curious plants of the Order to which it belongs, and quite unlike any other- one of 
the mencarps appears as if wholly suppressed, but is in reality entirely incorporated with the other, and it's cavity 
obliterated; the stylopodia and styles are however nearly equal, and, except the obliquity of the whole fruit, there 
are no outward signs of the fruit being other than simple. I much regret never having seen flowering specimens, 
all Mr. Gunn s being far advanced in fruit. The ridges of the fruit are not very well defined, or constant in figure 
or positum, and as with all alpine plants, there are many variations in the amount of pubescence and wool, fa. 
and crenatures of the leaves, etc. Though so anomalous, I have little doubt that the true place of the genus is 
oTC« i^ Mh 1 ^ tW ° Styl6S '^ S0Htary Cdl ^ ""*> is -* *"-A small, perennial- 
^o tecb herbaceous plant, forming large, flat, dense tufts in wet or boggy soil; whole plant more or iL shaggy 
^z^:z fr n radica1 ' i— si spreadins ' " h,ch ^ * ^^ * £ 
thulate, obo.at -oblong or oblong, blunt, coriaceous, quite entire or three-toothed or obtusely crenate leaves 
lt.t?S T t ° ad ' SUn '° Unded ^ a CUP " Shaped inV ° luCre ° f - t0 ^ ^aves, united at 
the base oi to the m^dle, their free apices lanceolate, blunt. Movers six to ten, Beadle Inn! , )blinilP i obovate 
sessile, compressed, coriaceous, sometimes hairv at the W «n-.fc « v. • ' ' obowite, 
Pmml n-loK x. • , "leumes nairy at the base, with hve obscure n bs, and a- ,„an\ oblono- blunt un- 
equal, g abrous, or hairy calyx-teeth, which fall away when the fruit is ,, llit o ripe ,V/„/, '.,,,11 en,, linear 
May long, snlnuate; «|fa. broad. % ^ thick, elong8 ^ J£ throughout „,,„,,;,, 
1£S-iTZ£^ — « ;dai- k -eoio: l r::d"iu i : l d::: 
• r j x ! but, upon re-examination of mm.v «™n, m ™ a a ™ 
inebned to suppose all to be varieties of one. The flowers may be unisexuil h ' specimens, am 
o ai, *, immature fruit, ivith stamens and petals adhering: 3 petal- 4 «* mm V * 
Gen. VII. MICEOSCIADIUM, ifca*. fit. 
ovata, obtusa, apice non infl M XL sT ^ ^ - COmm,SSUram ™ c ™*™ tis - *«* 5 ' 
■--^,«ri:t;;;; , :,"; - , /# ■ ^ & ,L^,. scapis 
mi »»n. ,. Mb Wfca& . fl ; ribus i)a ;;.°™ •• uml>ellam «b*«" /»«i*»»- ^mrfii^ <«/ 
Of this curious genu, (of the tribe S»K»fa,) only two SDecies 
«J only two species are at present known, one the Tasmanian, and 
