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uodosis liic illic foliosis, foliis depauperatis, pedunculis erectis radicalibus foliis brevioribus longioribusve,
involucri 8 -10-pbyUi foliolis radiatis lanceolato-subulatis pun g eu tib u s capitido depresso midto longioribus,
calyce dense squamuloso. Lab. F l. Nov. Holl. v. 1 . p . 73. t. 98. DC. Prodr. v. i . p . 92.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islan d s. E a s t coast, Colenso. P o r t Cooper, Ltjall.
Boots stout, descending, as tliick as a goose-quUl, tbrowing out suckers 4 -8 incties long, that do not root. Radical
leaves tufted, 3 -6 inches long, on long petioles, rarely i inch broad, deeply toothed or pinnatifid ; the segments
shaqi, spinous. Sa,-cuti jointed, with a pair of small, cuneate, toothed leaves at the joints. Umbels pedimculate,
arising from the roots; peduncles shorter than the leaves, sessile, or pedunculate at the joints of the surculi.
Invehieres ^ inch across ; leaflets eight to ten. very rigid and pungent. Flowers iu smaU dense heads, very
inconspicuous. Calyx densely covered with imbricating, búllate, cellular, chatfy scales.
Gen. IV . A P IUM , Eoffm.
Fructus subrotundus, a latere contractus, didymus. Carpella 5 -jiig a; jugis filiformibus crassisve;
valleculis 1 -3 -v itta tis ; carpophoro indiviso. S ew » antice planiusculum. Cafynk limbus obsoletus. ^ Petala
subrotunda, hitegra. Involiiemm e t imoluoellum 0. Vmhellm subsessiles, subsimplices v. compositæ.
The “ Celeries ” of the Southern Temperate zone are common, smooth, herbaceous, sea-side plants, extremely
variable in habit, size, and form of leaf. They are by many considered as varieties of the common European wild
Celery, A . (jraveolens, which is the origin of our cultivated stock. I advocated this opinion iu the ' Flora Antarctica ’
(p. 287), after an examination of the Fuegian Celery in its native state. This is an admirable vegetable, raw
or boUed, and forms an erect or prostrate, narrow- or broad-leaved herb, varying in every locality. Mr. Bentham,
who is better acquainted with the European plant, has pointed out a character in the thick^ spongy ribs of the
carpels ot the Southern forms, that is unlike the slender ribs of the Northern, and which, in lieu of a better,
may be taken advantage of, to separate them. Considering how extremely variable the plants are in both hemispheres.
and that the fruits vary exceedingly in size, it stUl appears doubtful whether there be more than one species
or not. I t is a point I would strongly recommend to the attention of Colonists.— Cahjx limb 0. Fetals without
an inflected border. Fruit globose. Carpels with five thick spongy ribs. Umbels many-flowered, simple or compound.
Flowers white. (Name from ah, ap, or av, water, in various ancient European dialects ; from the wild
species growing in wet places.)
1. Apium australe. P e t .-T h .; caule ramoso sulcato p rostrato rarius erecto, foliis pinnatisectis, foliolis
sessilibus petiolatisve bi-multi-jugis late obovatis lineari-elongatisve varie incisis dentatis lobatisve, umbellis
simpHcibus pedunculatis vel compositis e t sessüibus, carpeUormn ju g is crassis. Pet.-Thouars, Fl. Trist.
(V Acunha.
V a r . a ; foliolis la te obovatis varie sectis. A. graveolens, DC'. Fl. A n ta rc t.p . 231. A. decumbens,
var. a. sapidum, B ank s et Sol. MS S . et Ic.
V a r./3 ; foliolis in segmenta liueari-ligulata varie lobata sectis. A. p ro stratum, Ventenat,
Hort. M a i. A. decumbens, /3. tenellum. B a n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic. Petroselinura, DC. Prodr. A . PicJi.
Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr.
H a b . Shores of all th e Is la n d s ; abundant. Ba n k s a n d Solander, etc.
Whole plant smooth, smelling strongly of Celery, prostrate, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Branches many, prostrate,
as thick as the finger or much less, channeHed. Leaves S-8 inches long, pinnate; segments broad or narrow, variously
cut, sessile or petiolate. Umbels simple and pedunculate, or compound, and then sessile in the axils of the
leaves; primary and secondary branches always spreading.—I have seen the two distinet-lookmg varieties a and ¡3
growing from the same stem in Tasmanian specimens.
2. k p a m filiforme. Hook. ; caule p rostrato filiformi distanter folioso gracili parce ramoso, foliis petio-
U - " .
latis te rnatim sectis rarius pinnatisectis, foliolis rotundato-cuneatis iuciso-lobatis. Hook. Ic. P la n t, t. 819
Petroselinum, A. R ich . Plora. A . Cunn. Prodr.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, on rocky coasts, D^ Urville, etc.
A ranch smaller and more slender plant than A . australe, of which I lielieve it to be probably a state,
growing in rocky places, with smaller and less divided leaves. Stems 6 inches to 1 foot long. Leaves 3 -6 inches,
trifoliolate, rarely pinna te; segments more or less petiolate, obovate or rounded, variously cut. Umbels as in the
former, but more often compound and peduncled.—Veiy small slender specimens a good deal resemble Pozoa
Geu. V. CRANTZIA, N u tt.
Fructus subro tu n d u s, fere orbicularis ; carpellis (sæpe inæqualibus) semiteretibus, ad commissuram
non contractis, 5-sulcatis, 7 -ju g is; jugis crassis, semiteretibus; valleculis 1-vittatis. Calycis limbus obscure
5-dentatus. Semen versus commissuram ca rinatum. P e ta la non infiexa. Umbella simplex; involucro
parvo, oligophyllo.
The only known species is a small, succulent, strong-smelling, inconspicuous herb, with a creeping rhizoma,
fasciculate, fistulöse, jointed leaves, and short scapes, with minute, inconspicuous, pedicellate flowers. Involucre of
few leaves, much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx limb five-toothed. Petals without an inflexed apex. Fruit
rounded, contracted above. Carpels semiterete, spongy, not contracted at the commissure, five-fuiTowed, the
ribs thick and convex.—This plant, placed by De Candolle near Hydrocotyle, I consider allied to Ottoa and
OEnantJie. I t is a common American plaut from the Falkland Islands to lat. 35° S. on the east coast of South
America, and from 30° N. to 42° N. in tiie United States ; and it is also found in Tasmania. The leaves in South
American specimens often become plane, linear-lanceolate and obtuse : they are always terete and hollow, with
transverse septa.
1. Cvar\i7Àa U n ea ta ,'N u .it DC. Prodr, v. 4:. p . 19. Fl. An ta rc t. p . 231. t. 199.
H a b . N o rth e rn aud Middle Islan d s, in swamps and wet sand, etc. E a s t coast, Colenso ; Nelson,
Bidw ill.
Rhizome as thick as a crow-quill, 2 -6 inches long. Leaves very variable in length ( i - 4 inches) and 4—2 lines
broad. Peduncles shorter than tbe leaves. Umbels simple, spreading, few-flowered.
Gen. V I. A C IPH Y L LA , Forst.
Dioica V . monoica. Fructus lineari-oblongus, alatus. Carpella plano-convexa, dissimilia, unico 3- altero
4 -ju g o ; jugis alatis, lateralibus marginantibus ; valleculis commissuraque 2 -3 -v itta tis ; semine semitereti,
autice planiusculo. Calycis limbus contractus, 5-dentatus. Pe ta la apice inflexa. Umbelloe parvæ, axillares,
simplices v. compositæ, in spicam racemumve grandem densum columnarem foliis spiniformibus reflexis
horridum aggregatæ.
A most remarkable, tall, unbranched, rigid, spinous herb, 5-7 feet high, with pinnated jointed leaves, whose
long, grassy, rigid, pungent divisions are spread out like a fan, aud with au oblong terminal raceme of many umbels,
nestling amongst rigid recurved spinous involucral leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Calyx limb contracted,
five-toothed. Fetals with an inflected apex. Fruit linear-oblong. Carpels unequal, one three- the other five-winged.
Umbels axillary in boat-shaped sheaths of the floral leaves, very irregular, simple or compound ; partial involucres of
few subulate leaflets. The male flowers have no ovarium, but long stamens, are smaller, more numerous, and arranged
in more spreading and very compound irregular umbels. (Name from okcs, sharp, and cf)vWov, a leaf.)
1. Acipbylla squarrosa, F o rst. Gen. t. 38. Hook. Ic . P la n t, t. 6Ü7, 608. L ig u sticum Acipliylla,
DC. Prodr. A . R ich . A . Cunn. Prodr. Laserpitium, L in n . fi l. Forst. Prodr. L . spinosissimum, B a n k s
et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
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