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Descriptive Characters of 



15. Gingidiiim simplicifolium, 



Dioeceons ; leaves rigid, undivided, elongate-linear, articu- 

 lated, perfectly blunt, somewhat channelled; lower umbels, 

 few-rayed, supported by an undivided large vaginated leaf. 



In moist, grassy, subalpine meadows, from Mount Wellmg- 

 ton to the Munyang Mountains. 



It is certainly very singular that the species of anisotome 

 or gingidium should be all endemic. Their striking feature 

 is highly developed by gigantic species in Campbell's and 

 Auckland's Islands, reappears by numerous distinct forms m 

 New Zealand, but is wanting in Tasmania. 



16. Seseli Harveyanum, 



( Sect. Euseselu) 



Glabrous; stems several, erect, herbaceous, simple, from 

 a perennial root ; petioles of the stem with an ample vagina ; 

 radical leaves pinnatisected ; upper segments lanceolate- or 

 broad-linear, undivided, gradually pointed; the lower ones to 

 the middle or nearly to the base tAVO- or three-cleft or agam 

 pinnatisected; leaves of the stem simply pinnatisected or 

 undivided ; umbel with 4-8 unequal angulate glabrous rays 

 and with a solitary or without a bract; bracteoles 1-3, Imear- 

 setaceous, unmargined, sometimes wanting; fruit glabrous, 

 oblong, somewhat compressed, with sharp prominent ribs and 

 solitary vittae in the interstices. ^ r i ^ ^i. 



In alpine and subalpine meadows from the Cobboras to the 

 Munyang Mountains (4-5000'). ^ - w - 



Not dfssimilar to Seseli Pallasu from Russia, offering with 

 the following plant a new and unexpected connecting hnk 

 between the Australian plants and those of northern countries 

 since the genus was very scantily hitherto represented m the 

 southern hemisphere, and quite unknown m Australia. Ihe 

 whole plant is of sweetish aromatic taste, reminding of Fennel 

 and Garden Chervil, and might, I think, be cultivated to ad- 

 vantage. 



17. Seseli algens. 

 (Sect. Euseseli.) 



Glabrous, glaucous; stems several, generally decumbent, 

 herbaceous, simple, from a perennial root;_ petioles with an 

 ample vagina; radical leaves simply pinnatisected ; segments 



