Umbellifera.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
stratum, Lab. PL Nov. Boll. i. 76. t. 103; Vent, llort. Mai. t. 81. Petroselinum j 
iv. 102, 387 ; Hook. Ic. PL cccv. {Gnnn, 68.) 
Hab. Common, especially on the north shores of the Island.— (Fl. Nov.) (v. r.) 
Distrib. Extratropical Australia, both on the coast and inland; New Zealand, Fucgia, and the I 
land Islands; Tristan d'Acunha and St. Paul's Island (in the South Indian Ocean). 
The two varieties of this plant appear totally dissimilar. The differences arc extreme between the si 
broad, obovate, cuneate segments of var. a, and the long, narrow, linear ones of var. ft -. hut not only are inte: 
diate forms abundant, but one of Gunn's specimens of ft has leaves of a occurring at the same node with its < 
—A suberect or prostrate herb, sometimes rooting at the joints. Brandies a few inches to a fool long, 1 
Leaves bipinnatisect. l'i,d»-U peduneled and simple, sessile and compound. — II would be worth while to cull 
this plant, to discover whether, after several years of good soil and manure, it would not become a good CY1. r\ 
the wet climate of Fuegia it makes an agreeable raw salad and cooked potherb. 
Gen. XI. DAUCUS, Tmrru. 
Fructus a dorso compressus, oblongus, calycis limbo 5-dentato coronatus; mcricarpiis plafiO-OOOT 
jugis primariis 5, setosis, 3 dorsalibus, 2 sutura commissi! rail impoaitis; secundaria 1, prominuha, acute 
valleculis vittatis. Semen anticc planiusculum. Pe/uli apice inflexa; extertoru xrpe radi.intia. lb 
erectat foliis pinnatisecti* ; ombellu eompoiUu ; involucn faliaba i 
This European genus, to which the Carrot belongs, has but one Australian representative, whi.h is also f< 
in the New World; its prickly fruit and finely divided haves at one. distinguish it from all other plants of 
same family in Tasmania. The technical characters of the genus reside in the dorsally eoinpi 
primaiy and four secondary rid 
strong prickles. — Calyx-lobes ( 
■covered with seta-, and the secondary v 
i Gwek.) 
brachiatus (Sieb. PI. Exsicc. p. 115) ; erectus, ramosus, pilosus v. glabratus, foliia 
bipinnatisectis, segmentis incisis ultimis linearibus, umbellis pauciradiatis radiis inaxjuilongis, foliolis 
involucri linearibus v. foliaceis involucelli simplicibus pedicellis brevioribus, petalis minimis rubris, jugis 
secundariis fructus pectinatis, aculeis primariis apice glochidiatis.— DC. Prodr. iv. 2U; /'. 
91. D. toriloides, DC. I. c. D. australis, Pfljp. PL Em. 97 ; DC. I. c. D. pusillus, MicJiaux, Fl. Bor. 
Am. i. 164. D. microphyllus, Presl; DC. I. c. 213. Caucalis glochidiata, Poirel, Suppl. ii. 137. Scan- 
dix pectinata, Lab. FL Nov. Holl. i. 75. t. 102. {Gnnn, 493.) 
Hab. Common in the northern parts of the Island.— (Fl. Dec.) 
Distrib. Eastern Australia, from the Tropics to Bass' Straits; South-western Australia; New Zealand ; 
Western America from Mexico to Juan Fernandez. 
Plants glabrous or pilose. Stems simple, or many from the same root, 6 inches to 1 foot high, slender in 
flower, stout in fruit. Leaves chiefly radical, decompound: the ultimate segments small, narrow -i 
axillary and terminal of eight to ten unequal ray. Uwral inhere simple or decompound Petals aiual , 
scarlet Carpels 1 line long, the main ridges with a row of stiff, barbed bri.tl - th m« .ate ones much 
smaller, two hidden in the commissure, each with a double row of bristle* pointfflg right and lett. 
Gen. XII. OKEOMYKHII1S, Fndl. 
Fructus ovato-oblongus, lateraliter subcompressus, calycis limbo truncate coronatus; mericarpus 
5-jugis iagb obtusis prominulis, 3 dorsalibus, 2 marginalibus ; valleculis 1-vittatis. Semen antice planius- 
culum 'v. concavum. Petala apice incurva. %« recurvi.-Herbae glabra^ v. serice* ; folns decern- 
positis ; scapis erect is simplicibus v. prohfei 
mplicibus; involucri foliolis hnearihvs. 
