198 XXXIV. UMBELLIPEEAE . [Oreomyrrhis . 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the East Cape to the Blufi. CHATHAM Islands. Sea- 

 level to 4,500ft. Nov. to Feb. Also in Australia and America, where it ascends to nearly 15,000ft., 

 descending to sea-level on the Falkland Islands. 



The amount of hairiness is extreragly variable, but I follow Bentham in uniting the different 

 species described in the Handbook uoder this. The following are the principal forms ob=!erved,in 

 New Zealand, but they pass into each other so insensibly that it is impossible to draw permanent 

 lines of separation. The hairs on the scape and pedicels usually point downward. 



Var. Colensol (sp.), Hook, f., PI. N.Z. i. 92. G-labrate or hairy. Leaves all radical, pinnate 

 or 2-pinnate ; leaflets incised or pinnatifid. Scapes simple, naked. Involucral leaves 6-8, usually 

 ovate. — Handbk. 91. 0. Haastii, Hook. f. I.e. 91, is a form with pedicels shorter than the tomen- 

 tose fruits. 



Var. pamosa (sp.), Hook, f., Handbk. 91. Stems 12in.-24in. high, very slender, much branched, 

 glabrescent or hairy ; hairs spreading. Leaves usually pinnate ; leaflets membranous, distant, 

 lobed incised or partite or again pinnate, obtuse or subacute. Peduncles axillary, longer or shorter 

 than the leaves, sometimes 1ft. long, 2-8-flowered. Pedicels often 2in. long. Involucral leaves 

 usually linear-acute. Fruits glabrous or almost tomentose. 



Var. apiculata. Stems branched, almost capillary. Peduncles short. Leaves glabrous, 

 deltoid-ovate, ternately divided ; leaflets mostly 3-foliolate ; segments petioled, lobed and toothed, 

 apiculate. — Ligusticum trifoliolatum. Hook, f., Handbk. 97? SOUTH Island: Inveroargill, W. S. 

 Hamilton ! Better specimens of this curious plant are badly wanted ; it may prove a distinct 

 species. 



Var. rigida. Stems stout and branched at the very base only, 6in.-8in. high. Leaves twice 

 pinnate; segments acute, pubescent, hairy or woolly. Peduncles depressed, Bin. -8in. long. Pedicels 

 stout. Involucral leaves ovate, oblong or linear. Fruits linear, downy or glabrous. — O. andicola, 

 Hook, f., Fl, Antarc. ii. 288, t. 101. 



' SCANDIX, Tourn, 

 Calyx-teeth minute or 0. Petals obovate, with a short inflexed point or 0. 

 Disk dilated. Fruit compressed or contracted at the sides, almost cylindrical, pro- 

 duced into a long beak; carpophore simple or 2-fid. Carpels subterete ; primary 

 ridges filiform, secondary ; vittae solitary in the interspaces or 0. Seed deeply 

 furrowed in fruit. Annual herbs, with pinnate decompound leaves and simple or 

 compound umbels. Flowers unequal, polygamous. 



* S. Pecten-veneris, L. Stem erect, 1ft. high or more, branched, pubescent, 

 spreading. Leaves 3-pinnate ; segments short, linear. Umbels axillary or terminal, 

 small; rays few, short. Bracteoles often divided and longer than the pedicels. 

 Fruit rough, dorsally compressed ; edges finely setose ; beak three times longer than 

 the fruit. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : cultivated and waste land, but often local. Shepherd's needle. 

 Dec. to Feb. Europe. 



*FOENlCULUM, Tourn. 

 Calyx-teeth 0. Petals entire, with a broad inflexed obtuse lobe. Stylopodium 

 large, conical. Fruit oblong or ovate ; commissure broad. Carpels subterete ; pri- 

 mary ridges 5, obtuse, stout; vittae solitary in the interspaces. Seed fiat or con- 

 cave in front, furrowed. Erect glabrous annual or perennial herbs, with decompound 

 leaves and compound umbels of yellow flowers. General and partial involucres 0. 



* F. vulgare, Mill. An aromatic perennial, stout, erect, 4ft. -6ft. high, 

 terete. Leaves spreading, dissected into innumerable filiform or capillary channelled 

 segments. Umbels large ; rays numerous. Flowers yellow. 



Naturalised throughout the colony, especially in places near the sea. Fennel. Feb., March. 

 Europe. 



7. CRANTZIA, Nutt. 

 Flowers minute. Calyx minutely 5-toothed. Petals acute, imbricate in 

 the bud. Fruit ovoid-globose, slightly compressed laterally. Carpels with 5 



