Umbellifera] flora of Tasmania. l r> « » 
another much larger, discovered by the indefatigable Dr. Mueller on the alps of South-eastern Australia, and de- 
scribed by him as Pozoa \ Sj :,„, m the ' Tranaactkms of the \ ictoria Enstafate,' and m Mi- 
erosciadium euneifoliim in the seventh volume of the ( Kew Journal of Botany.' Both are glabrous herbs, with perennial 
roots, simple, petiolate, radical leaves, and slender, wiry scapes, that are in the .!/. runrifidimn, Muell., dichoto- 
mously branched, with single-flowered branches, but which in the Tasmanian species bear irregular umbels of two 
to three flowers, on very long pedicels.— Calyx-tuhe obconic, limb five-toothed. Petals ovate, blunt. Sfatncn* 
short. Stylopodia very large. Styles short, recurved. Fruit ovate; mericarps convex or semiterete, without 
vittae, five- to seven-angled or five- to seven-ribbed, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes, seareely contracted at 
ame from fiiKpos, small, and crfcuaSios, an umbelliferous plant.) 
(Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 468) ; foliis petiolati? ooriaceis 
orbiculatis late ovato-cordatisve grosse dentatis v. multi-lobatis, lobis subacutis, acapia grueilibus, umbt -His 
2-3-floris, involucri foliolis oblongis parvis. (Gunn, 1968.) 
Hab. Abundant in wet, heathy places in the Loddon Plains, on the road to Maequarric Harbour. 
Gunn; Macquarrie Harbour, Million.— (EL Feb.) 
A small, inconspicuous plant, 3-5 inches high. — Learn few. coriaceous, petiolate, orbicular or broadly ovati- 
cordate, cut at the edge into large teeth or deep lobes. Scape* bearing I two- to three-flowered umbel of small 
flowers on long pedicels. 
Gen. VIII. ERYNCill M, L. 
Fructus subteres, ovatus, squamatus, calycis lobis 5 foliaceis coronatus; mcricarpiis scmitcrctibus. 
evittatis, ejugatis, carpophoro per totam longitudinem adnatia. Petala abrapte emarginata cum apioe 
inflexo. Stamina 5. Stylopodia subglobosa. Sfj/li filifonnes. — Ilerlw acinic* v. caulescentes, rigidit, 
sapim pungentes; umbellis in capitula densa ovoidea aggregate; involucri /'■'• ■' ^ ■ '< noribm radiatis, 
interioribus sparsis, paleaceis, jloribus im?nixtis. 
There are two Austraban species of this genus, which abounds in South Europe and South America, but is 
scarce in other parts of the globe. One of the Australian ones is also Tasmanian, and the other (E. ovinum, A. 
Cunn., a tall branched species) is common to New South Wales, Victoria, and South-western Australia.— Herbs 
with often coriaceous, pungent leaves. Umbels deformed and aggregated into capitula, surrounded at the base by 
a whorl of involucral leaves, the leaves of the partial involucres scattered amongst the flowers. Fruit ovoid. 
crowned with the five large calyx-lobes, without vitt;e or ribs. I'>-iah truncate, with a deep notch and inflected 
point. Stamens five. Stylopodia globose. (Name, the epvyyiov of Dioscorides.) 
1. Eryngium vesiculosum (Lab. PL Nov. Holl. i. 73. t. 98); glaberrimuro, foliis radicalibuslongc 
petiolatis lanceolato-oblongis linearibusve acuminatis grosse argute inseqnaliter srnnoeo-dentatia anbpinna- 
tifidisve, surculis prostratis nodosis hie illic Miosis (foliis imperfectis), pedunculia radicalibus erectis, invo- 
lucri 8-10-phylli foliolis radiatis lanceolato-subulatis pungentibus capitulo depreaso mnlto longioribus, 
calyce squamulis bullatis dense obtecto. — DC. Prodr. iv. 92; Fl. A. Zeal. i. <>. 
Hab. Marshy places in the northern and central parts of the Island, dunn, Mi/ligan.— 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia : New Zealand. 
A very variable plant, from 1 to 8 or 10 inches high.— Boott stout, descending, as thick as a goose-quill, throw- 
ing out stolones 4-8 inches long, that do not root, Radical leaves tufted. 3-C, inches Long, on long petioles, 
rarely \ inch broad, deeply toothed or pinnatifid, the segments sharp, spinous. Stolones jointed or knotted, with a 
pair of small toothed leaves at the joint. Umbels pcdunclcd or sessile, radical ; peduncles longer or shorter than 
the leaves. Involucral leaves \-\ inch long, spreachng, rigid, pungent. Flowers in small dense heads, very incon- 
