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Ranunculus and P. trifoliata, but cannot surpress my opinion, 

 that Pozoa and Azorella, rank only as groups of one large 

 and polymorphous genus, namely Fragosa. 



( Sect. Sphagnosciadium.) 



Umbels few flowered, paniculate; leaflets of the involucre 

 few or reduced to one ; flowers hermaphrodite ; teeths of the 

 calyx deciduous, 



13. Pozoa ciineifolia. 

 Sphagnosciadium cuneifolium, Ferd. Mueller coll. 



Glabrous ; rhizome, thick ; stems erect ; leaves all radical, 

 cuneate, tapering into a long petiole, three-nine nerved, in 

 front with three-nine acute teeth or lacini?e ; bracteoles lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, entire ; generally equal in number to the 

 flowers of the umbels; flowers pedicellate, sometimes solitary; 

 teeths of calyx small, nearly acute ; petals white ; fruit ovate, 

 with a retuse base ; carpels slightly compressed at the back, 

 strongly five-ribbed. 



At Mount Wellington, the Cobboras Mountains, and other 

 localities of the Australian Alps, always in turf moss, (5,000 

 feet.) 



It was not without hesitation that I referred this plant to 

 Pozoa, differing from the rest so decidedly in its infloresence, 

 yet hardly in other respects. 



Gingidium ; Forster, 



Anisotome ; J. Hooker, not of Entomologists. Calosciadium, 



Endlicher. 



14. Gingidium glaciale, 



Dioeceous ; stem robust ; leaves rigid, in outline almost 

 ovate, bi- or tripinnated ; segments hardly spreading, broad- 

 linear, undivided, acute, mucronate, streaked, as well the 

 rachis channelled and traversely articulated ; umbels, many- 

 rayed ; carpels equal, semiterete. 



In the higher regions of the Australian Alps, not rare, 

 (5-7,000 feet). ^ 



The strange rigid foliage attracts the notice of all travellers 

 which yet penetrated into this mountain. 



