Daucus.] XXXIV. UMBELLIFEEAE. 213 



3. A. geniculata, Hook. /., Handbk. 98. Suffrutiroso. Stems 2ft.-4ft. 

 long, much branched, slender, subscandent or scrambling over shrubs ; inter- 

 nodes lin.— Sin. long. Leaves, in young state 3-partite or 3-lobed, when mature 

 1-foliolate ; sheath narrow-linear, with two obtuse lobes at the mouth; blade 

 orbicular-ovate or obscurely rhomboid or deltoid-ovate, rarely oblong, obtuse or 

 rounded, minutely oreiiate. Peduncles short. Umbels axillary or terminal ; 

 rays 2-4, unequal, usually 3-5-flowered ; pedicels shorter than the ovary ; invo- 

 lucral bracts very short, acute. Flowers white. Petals inflexed at the tips. 

 Calyx-teeth acute. Styles slender. Fruits ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, 

 spreading. Carpels with 3 rarely 4 filiform ridges and 2 membranous wings; 

 vittae 1 beneath each furrow and 2 on the commissural face. — Anisotome geni- 

 culata, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 90, t. 19 (Eustylis). Peucedanum geniculatum, 

 G. Forst., Prod. n. 136 ; A. Rich., Fl. Nouv.-Zel. 272 ; A. Cunn., Precurs. 

 n. 507. Bowlesia geniculata, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 364. 



NORTH Island : local. Bast Cape and intei-ior, CoUnso. Near Paikakariki, H. B. Kirk ! 

 Port Nicholson, Buchanan ! SOUTH Island : Queen Charlotte Sound, Forster. Banks Peninsula, 

 Raoul I East coast of Canterbury and Otago, J. W. Armst. ! Buchanan ! Jan., Feb. 



I have never seen chis plant growing far from the sea, and doubt its occurrence inland. 



"PEUCEDANUM, Linn. 



Calyx inconspicuous or 0. Stylopodium small ; margin expanded or undulate. 

 Petals rounded or obovate, with an inflexed point. Fruit oblong, broadly oblong, or 

 ovoid, compressed dorsally ; primary ridges 3, equidistant, two marginal dilated into 

 wings, intermediate filiform. Vittae solitary in the interspaces. Biennial or peren- 

 nial herbs, with pinnately or ternately divided leaves. Umbels compound ; bracts 

 and bracteoles many or few or 0. Flowers often polygamous. 



* P. sativum, Benth. and Hook. /., Gen. PL. i. 920. A stout erect biennial. 

 Eoot fusiform. Stem furrowed, fistular. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets sessile, ovate- 

 oblong, coarsely toothed or serrate, shining above, downy beneath. Umbels large ; 

 rays many, long. Flowers yellow. General and partial involucres G. Calyx-teeth 0. 

 Fruit oblong ; wings rather broad ; styles very short. 



Sparingly naturalised from Auckland to Otago, especially on calcareous soils. Parsnip. Jan., 

 Feb. Europe, Siberia. 



11. DAUCUS, Linn. 



Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals emarginate, inflexed at the tips, slightly 

 imbricate in the bud. Disk small. Fruit ovoid or oblong, slightly dorsally 

 compressed. Carpels with 5 slender primary bristly ribs and 4 prominent 

 winged secondary ribs with glochidiate bristles ; vittae under the secondary 

 ribs and 2 on the commissural face. Erect bristly annual or perennial herl)s, 

 with pinnate or 2— 3-pinnate leaves and narrow segments. Umbels of white 

 flowers with pinnatifid or pinnate bracts, terminal, compound. 



A genus comprising about 30 species, chiefly found in the temperate regions of the Northern 

 Hemisphere. 



Umbels large, compact . . . . . . . . . . . . ..*£). Carota. 



Umbels small, lax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. D. brachiatus. 



