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218 1–2 in. diam., compound, the lower ones on long peduncles, forming a terminal open panicle; involucral leaves linear-subulate, shorter than the rays. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid-oblong, $1⁄5$–$1⁄4$ in. long; carpels 5-winged.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 201.

7. L. brevistyle, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 95.—Stems 6–18 in. high, slender, grooved. Radical leaves 4–12 in. long; petiole somewhat rigid, shortly sheathing at the base; limb linear-oblong in outline, rarely broader and ovate-oblong, 2–3-pinnate; primary divisions 6–10 pairs; leaflets cut down to the rhachis into 3–5 distant very narrow-linear lobes ¼–¾ in. long with short acicular tips. Umbels few, 1–8, loosely panicled, compound, diœcious; involucral bracts filiform, shorter than the rays. Fruit on very short pedicels, oblong, $1⁄8$–$1⁄6$ in. long; carpels with 5 narrow wings; styles very short.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 202.

8. L. dissectum, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 202.—Rather stout, coriaceous, 5–15 in. high. Rootstock thick, covered with the ragged bases of the old leaves. Radical leaves 3–12 in. long, coriaceous but hardly rigid; petiole half the length or more, with a long and narrow sheath; blade ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 2–3-pinnate; primary pinnae 4–9 pairs, 1–2 in. long; secondary closely placed, ternately or pinnately cut into numerous linear pungent-pointed segments ¼–1 in. long and about $1⁄20$ wide. Umbels compound, few or many in an open branched panicle; primary rays numerous, 10–20; involucral bracts linear or lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit linear-oblong, $1⁄8$ in. long; carpels 5-winged.

9. L. filifolium, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 95.—Slender, grassy, very aromatic. Stems 6–20 in. high, smooth, striate, often much branched above. Leaves 4–15 in. long, thin and often flaccid; petioles very long, slender, sheathing at the base, sheaths short and broad, membranous; blade very variable in size and shape,