Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 127 



Obs. Caulis herbaceus. Folia ovata, coriacea, integra, supra sulcata, 

 subtus villosa. Scapus foliosus, uniflorus, lanugiuosus. 



" Cette espece, fort voisine de la pr^cedente, n'en est peut-etre 

 qu'une simple variete." A. Rich. I. cit. 



I have no means of ascertaining to what genus these species, if 

 distinct from each other, belong, as Forster says but little of the real 

 structure of the achenium, and nothing at all of the form of the pap- 

 pus. They appear, however, to be species of Calmisia. Cass. 



4. Haxtonia, Caley. D. Don. 



Involacrum polyphyllum imbricatum. Flosculi radii fceminei Hgulati, 

 stigmatibus linearibus obtusis, sulco exaratis, margine incrassatis ! Disci 

 hermaphroditi. Achenia sulcato-angulata. Pappi radiis persistentibus, 

 apice penicillatis ! D. Don. 



440. H.furfuracea, fruticosa, foliis ellipticis coriaceis petiolatis obtusis, 

 margine undulatis integerrimis dentatisve, supra lsevibus subtus argenteo- 

 furfuraceis, corymbis terminalibus, " radiis ternis." — Aster furfuraceus. A. 

 Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 246.-— A. elongifolius. A. Cunn. Ms. 1826. 



Tarata Incolarum fluvii Thames. D'Urville. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of rivers, at the Bay of Islands. 

 1826. A. Cunningham. — 1834, R. Cunningham. River Thames. — 1827, 

 D'Urville. 



Obs. Frutex6 — 10 pedalis. 



5. Vittaclinia, A. Richard. 



Capitula radiata. Involucrum polyphyllum imbricatum. Receptaculum 

 alveolatum. Semifiosculi exteriores fceminei longiores, revoluti ; flos- 

 culi interiores hermaphroditi tubulosi, graciles. Stamina 5 libera; an- 

 theris linearibus, basi abrupte recurvatis. Stigmata duo linearia. Ache- 

 nium teres basi stipitatum. Pappus sessilis, fimbriato-pilosus. 



441. V. australis. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 251. — Brachycoma spathulata. 

 Gaud, in Freyc. Voy.p. 467. 



New Zealand (Northern Island).—! 769, Sir Jos. Banks. (Middle Island.) 

 On the sandy rocky shores of the French strait (Passe des Francais). Tas- 

 man's Bay. — 1827, D'Urville. 



Planta ramosa, erectiuscula, subpilosa, 6 — 8 uncias alta. Folia obovali- 

 spathulata sub 5-loba, lobo terminal! majore obtusa. Capitula terminalia so- 

 litaria. Flores radiati. 



IV. SENECIONIDEjE, Lessing. 



1. BlDENS, L. 



442. B. pilosa. L. Forst. Prodr. n. 283. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 235. 

 Koeriki ab indigenis. D'Urville. — Horihike Incolarum secund. R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



New Zealand. Most frequent on cultivated ground, chiefly on the North- 

 ern Island. G. Forster. D'Urville. R. Cunningham. 

 2. Cotula, L. Lessing. 

 Capitulum, heterogamum, floribus $ uniserialibus saepe sterilibus in 

 ambitu, reliquis £ fertilibus. Achenium calvum, flori fcemineo stipi- 

 tatum, piano- compressum, flori hermaphrodito sessile etangustius, 



