408 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
white from the beginning. — A plant growing under the waterfall at 
Te Awatapu is so distinct as to merit a varietal name if it is constant 
from seed, The stems are slender and straggling. The leaves are nar- 
rower than the type, darkish-green, 5,5 cm long and 1 cm broad; the 
midrib is purple; the raceme slender, half as long again as the leaves, 
with the flowers rather distant; the pedicels and base of the calyx dark 
red-purple and the stigma hardly exserted. The flowers are lilac, chan- 
ging to white, The plant is in cultivation in my garden, and there is a 
Specimen, no. 8005, in my herbarium. 
973. Celmisia lanceolata Cock., l. c., p. 51. — Herba perennis Ĉel- 
misiae coriaceae habitu, Folia ensiformia vel lineari-lanceolata, circ. 24— 
28 cm longa, 2—2,6 cm lata, acuta, rigida, coriacea, margine valde re- 
curvo, supra longitudinale sulcata, glauca, cuticula pellucida vestita, 
subtus dense sericeo-tomentosa; nervus medius supra luteo-aurantiacus, 
prope basim 3—5 mm latus, subtus carinatus. Scapi compressi vel 
teretes, circ. 32 cm longi, niveo-lanati; bracteae numerosae, magnae, 
ensiformes, scapo adpressae. Capitulum 7,7 cm diamet.; involucri squa- 
mae lineares, acuminatae, scariosae, brunneae ad basim carnosae.  Flos- 
culi radii plurimi, angusti, 3,6 cm longi. Achenium minute pubescens. 
— New Zealand: South Island: Southland—Longwood Range near 
summit, but not common, J. Young! H. Reichel! Flowers in January. 
— Celmisia lanceolata is intermediate in character between C. coriacea 
Hook. f. and C. Armstrongü Petrie. It is best distinguished by the large 
heads, but not so large as reached by C. coriacea, the long narrow rays. 
the stiff woolly scapes with many leaf-like ensiform bracts, the long 
dull glaucous or yellowish-green linear-lanceolate leaves in erect rosettes 
with a conspicuous yellow or even orange midrib and widely recurved 
margin, the broad pale leaf-sheaths, and the very close silvery tomentum. 
— The scape when compressed is about 6 mm broad; it is densely 
woolly with long white matted hairs. The bracts are ensiform, concave 
on the upper surface, about 11 cm long by 1 cm wide, pale yellowish- 
green with a brownish-yellow midrib. The involucral bracts are green 
at the fleshy base but brown elsewhere, ciliate, more or less glabrous 
elsewhere, and about 2,8 cm long and 3 mm wide. 
914. Euthamia camporum var. tricostata J. Lunell, Le p. 99. — 
Folia conspicue trinervata; insuper duo nervi minus prominentes eX 
teriores saepe accedunt. Inflorescentia est valde glutinosa. — Dakota: 
This beautiful plant grows in wet meadows and boggy ravines and W8$ 
collected by the writer at Leeds, Benson County, August 23, 1898, being 
seemingly the only representative of the genus Euthamia in central North 
Dakota. 
975. Chasea Nieuwland in Amer. Midl Nat, II (1911) p. 64. — 
Panicum of the authors not of Linnaeus or only in part, 
976. Chasea clandestina (Linn. Nwd., Le p. 64. — Panicum dam 
destinum Linn., 1753. 
