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XXXIII. UMBELLIFERiE. 
[Apiirn. 
1. A. australe, Thouars; — FI. N. Z. i. 86. Root stout. Stems pro- 
strate, ascending, rarely erect, branched from the base, grooved, thickness of a 
sparrow- to a goose-quill, leafy, 6 in.-2 ft. long. Leaves 8-8 in. long, pin- 
nate or 2-3-pinnate; leaflets petioled or sessile, very variable in size, linear 
obovate or obcuneate, variously lobed or cut, membranous or coriaceous. Um- 
bels usually axillary, compound and sessile, hence appearing like many simple 
umbels ; rays many, 1-2 in. long ; partial ones i in. long. Flowers small, 
white. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, i n - l° n g- 
Var. a. Leaflets variously cut, broadly obovate or obcuueate. 
Var. j8. Leaflets cut into narrow linear or lanceolate lobes or leaflets. 
Abundant on the shores of all the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. A most variable 
plaut, found also in Australia, Tasmania, temperate and cold South America, the Cape of Good 
Hope, Tristan d’Acunha and St. Paul’s Island. 
2. A. filiforme, Hoolc. ;—Fl. N. Z. i. 87. Stems prostrate, slender, 
6-12 in. long. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely pinnate ; leaflets petioled, obovate 
or orbicular-cuneate, 3 -lobed or variously lobed or cut ; petioles 1-2 in. 
long. Umbels as in A. australe, but smaller, sometimes peduncled, some- 
times sessile and reduced to one primary ray. Fruit short, with thick spongy 
ribs, very variable in size. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 819. 
Northern and Middle Islands : generally on rocky shores, not uncommon. This is, 
I expect, a variety of the preceding : also found in the Isle of Pines. 
5. ERYN GIUM, Linn. 
Harsh, rigid, generally spinous herbs or shrubs. Umbels small, collected 
into dense, spiny, involucrate, globose or oblong heads. Involucral leaves 
spiny, involucels scattered amongst the flowers. Flowers very minute, sessile. 
— Calyx-limb of 5, erect lobes ; tube covered with scales. Petals deeply lobed, 
with an indexed lacinia from between the lobes. Fruit obovoid or subterete, 
often scaly or tubercled. Fruits nearly terete, without ribs or vittse. 
A large European, Oriental, and South American genus. 
1. E. vesiculosum, Labill. FI. Nov. Holt. i. 73. t. 98 \—Fl. N. Z. i. 
85. A small, rigid, spinous herb, 2-10 in. high. Root stout, crowned with 
a tuft of leaves and throwing out stout suckers 4-8 in. long, which bear 
small cuneate toothed leaves at the tip. Leaves tufted, oblong-lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, 3-6 in. long, narrowed into long flat petioles, rarely 1 in. 
broad, deeply toothed or pinnatifid, the lobes spinescent. Peduncles radical, 
bearing one small, broadly ovoid head. Involucral leaves 8-10, stellate, rigid, 
subulate, pungent, £— §• in. long. Flowers very inconspicuous, mixed with 
the pungent projecting scales of the involucels. Calyx densely clothed with 
imbricating, chaffy, convex scales. 
East coast of the Northern and Middle Islands, from Auckland to Otago. A na- 
tive of Tasmania and South Australia. 
6. OREOMYRRHIS, Endlicher. 
Silky hairy or nearly glabrous, scapigerous or branched herbs. Leaves 
pinnate or decompound. Umbels simple, solitary on the scapes, with broad. 
