214 XXXIV. UMBELLIFEEAE. [Caucalis. 



* D. Carota, L., Sp. PI. 242. Biennial, more or less hispid. Boot fusiform. 

 Stem erect, furrowed, solid, lft.-2ft. high. Leaves oblong or narrow-oblong, 2-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets inciso-dentate ; segments narrow, acute or lanceolate. Umbels large, 

 concave ; rays lin.-2in. long. Bracts pinnatifid ; bracteoles lanceolate. Fruit with 

 primary or secondary ridges carrying a row of usually hooked bristles. 



Naturalised from Auckland to Otago, but local in many districts. Carrol. Deo. to Feb. 

 Europe. 



1. D. brachiatus, Sieber. ex DC, Prod. iv. 234. Annual or biennial, 

 6in.— 18in. high. Stems slender, strict^ branched, hirsute or glabrate. Leaves 

 2— 3-pinnate ; leaflets short, narrow, incised or pinnatifid. Umbels axillary or 

 terminal, compound ; rays 3-5, unequal, with or without a few pedicellate 

 flowers in the axils. Involucral bracts small, entire, pinnatifid or pinnate. 

 Flowers red, minute. Fruits Jin.— j-^gin. long. Carpels with the secondary 

 ridges bearing a row of barbed purple spines ; primary ridges bearing a double 

 row of short colourless bristles. — Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 61 ; Handbk. 99; Benth., 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 376. Scandix glochidiata, Labill, PL Nouv. Holl. i 75, t. 102. 



Common in lowland districts from the Three Kings Islands and North Oape to Southland ; 

 CHATHAM Islands. Oct. to Dec. 



* CAUCALIS, Linn. 



Calyx-teeth 6, acute, rarely 0. Petals unequal, obcordate, with the apex 

 inflexed. Stylopodium conical, thickened. Fruit oblong or ovate, compressed, 

 laterally constricted at the commissure ; primary ridges filiform, prominent, and 

 with the secondary ridges bearing 1 or 3 rows of shortly-hooked spines or bristles ; 

 vittae solitary between the secondary ridges. Annual herbs, with more or less 

 hispid erect or rarely decumbent stems and terminal or axillary umbels. Flowers 

 small, often dioecious or polygamous. 



* C. nodosa, Scop., Fl. Gam., ed. 2, i. 192. Annual. Stems diffuse or pros- 

 trate, solid, branching at the base only, 1ft. -2ft. long, hispid ; hairs retrorse. Leaves 

 rather distant, pinnate or 2-pinnate ; leaflets small, narrow-pinnate. Umbels small, 

 subglobose, sessile, often leaf-opposed. Involucre 0. Outer carpels with hooked 

 bristles ; inner carpels tubercled. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : naturalised in many localities, but rarely abundant. Hedge- 

 parsley. Sept. to Nov. Europe, West Africa, West Asia to India. 



Oedbe XXXV.— araliaceae. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb persistent, forming a raised ring or 

 cup about the apex, truncate or 5- rarely 3-toothed. Petals 5, rarely 1, coria- 

 ceous, valvate or rarely imbricate, deciduous, inserted round an epigynous disk. 

 Stamens as many as the petals (rarely more) and inserted with them ; authors 

 versatile. Ovary inferior, 2 or more celled or rarely 1-celled with 1 pendulous 

 anatropous ovule in each cell. Styles as ui;my as cells, erect, with recurved 

 stigmatiferous tips, or coherent into a cone, or reduced to a small protuberance, 

 with as many inconspicuous stigmas as cells. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, 

 the epicarp usually succulent, 2- or many-celled; cells 1-sceded. Seeds with 

 copious endosperm. Embryo minute ; radicle superior. Shrubs or trees, rarely 



