59. UMBELLIFEKiE. 53 



petioled, petioles dilate along its length, and embracing the stem. Involucral 

 leaves linear 5 mm, long. Umbels 5 mm. lojig as broad, carpels ovately semi- 

 globose 1{ mm. long, | mm. broad, tliinly 5-striate, nearly round in section. 



Fimpinella Saxifraga Linn. ; Hayata Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 128. 



Hab. Mt. Morrison. 



DiSTRiB. Em'ope, northern and western Asia. 



Observ. a very small jjerennial herb ; rhizome erect, stem pubescent 

 or subglabrous rarely branched, 15-20 cm. high ; radical leaves (including 

 petioles) 8 cm. long, 1^ cm. broad, pinnate, pinnae 4-5 juged, with terminal 

 one, or sometimes bipinnate, lateral leaflets opposite, rotuirdate, 1 cm. long 

 as broad, subsessile or shortly stalked, dentate, petioles 4cm. long; cauhne 

 leaves 5^ cm. long, bipinnate or bipinnatifid, leaflets 3-4- juged, oblong in out- 

 line, 1 J cm. long 1 cm. broad, 3-5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, acute, terminal lobe 

 usually many-cleft. Umbels 7-radiate ; umbellules small, peduncles 2 cm. 

 long, carpels ovately semiglobose, tliinly 5-ribbed, 1| mm. long, nearly 

 round in section. An extremely tiny form of the species. 



6. OsmorrJiisa Kapin. 



Osmorrhiza longistylis Hayata Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 131. 

 Hab. Mt. Morrison. 

 DiSTKiB. North America. 



7. OreomijrrJiis Endl. 



Oreomyrrhis involucrata Hayata Materials for a Flora of Formosa 

 p. 128 ; Hayata Ic. PL Formos. PL XL. Perennial herb, csespitose, pubes- 

 cent, stem scape-like, 7 cm. long. Leaves all radical, pinnate or bipinnate, 

 4 cm. long (including petioles) 2 cm. broad, membranaceous, superior pinnse 

 sessile obovate 8 mm. long 4 mm. broad, long cuneate at the base, trilobed, 

 lobes lanceolate, middle pinnse obscurely petiolalate, lower pinnae distinctly 

 Xjetiolulate, tri-parted, segments tri-lobed, petiolules 4 mm. long, petioles 

 2 cm. long, base dilated scaly. Scapes 6 cm. long, pubescent. Involucral 

 bracts 10, 2-seriate, nearly 5 of them longer, the other 5 shorter, longer one 

 linear, 2| cm. long 1^ mm. broad, 3-fid at the apex, segments 5 mm. long, 



