104 Descriptive Characters of 
15. Gingidium simplicifolium. 
Diceceous; leaves rigid, undivided, elongate-linear, articu- 
lated, perfectly blunt, somewhat channelled; lower umbels, 
few-rayed, supported by an undivided large vaginated leaf. 
In moist, grassy, subalpine meadows, from Mount Welling- 
ton to the Munyang Mountains. 
It is certainly very singular that the species of anisotome 
or gingidium shonld be all endemic. Their striking feature 
is highly developed by gigantic species in Campbell’s and 
Auckland’s Islands, reappears by numerous distinct forms in 
New Zealand, but is wanting in Tasmania. 
16. Seseli Harveyanum. 
(Sect. Huseseli. ) 
Glabrous; stems several, erect, herbaceous, simple, from 
a perennial root; petioles of the stem with an ample vagina; 
radical leaves pinnatisected; upper segments lanceolate- or 
broad-linear, undivided, gradually pointed; the lower ones to 
the middle or nearly to the base two- or three-cleft or again 
pinnatisected; leaves of the stem simply pinnatisected or 
undivided; umbel with 4-8 unequal angulate glabrous rays 
and with a solitary or without a bract; bracteoles 1-3, linear- 
setaceous, unmargined, sometimes wanting; fruit glabrous, 
oblong, somewhat compressed, with sharp prominent ribs and 
solitary vittae in the interstices. 
In alpine and subalpine meadows from the Cobboras to the 
Munyang Mountains (4-5000’). 
Not dissimilar to Seseli Pallasii from Russia, offering with 
the following plant a new and unexpected connecting link 
between the Australian plants and those of northern countries 
since the genus was very scantily hitherto represented in the 
southern hemisphere, and quite unknown in Australia. The 
whole plant is of sweetish aromatic taste, reminding of Fennel 
and Garden Chervil, and might, I think, be cultivated to ad- 
vantage. 
17. Seselt algens. 
(Sect. Huseseli.) 
Glabrous, glaucous; stems several, generally decumbent; 
herbaceous, simple, from a perennial root; petioles with an 
ample vagina; radical leaves simply pinnatisected; segments 
