CoLEXSO. — On Ncic Phmiogamic Plants. 471 



margins white, hyaline ; florets ahout 14, very slender almost 

 setaceous, a little shorter than pappus. Eeceptacle narrow, 

 ridgy. Pappus few, about 20, scabrid throughout, tips acute. 

 Achene linear-lanceolate, dark-brown, scabrid. 



Hab. Swampy spots near Eangipo, eastern base of Mount 

 Tongariro, County of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A small and curious species, of which more perfect 

 specimens are much desired. I have received several plants 

 together in a little lot as collected, but only two of them bear 

 heads of florets, one of these being also immature. 



Genus 5. Lagenophora, Cass. 

 1. L. Strang ulata, sp. nov. 



Plant small, slender, graceful, erect, slightly tufted ; root- 

 stock vertical, long. Leaves 9-13, dark-green, sub- (some- 

 times oblate-) orbicular, 3-5 lines diameter, base somewhat 

 sub-truncate and abruptly tapering, margins crenate-serrate, 

 usually only 2 serratures on each side, rarely 3 and when 

 so confined to the one side, serratures and tip apiculate, 

 membranous, minutely reticulate, strigosely hairy on both 

 surfaces ; hairs long, flaccid, jointed and strangulated, patent, 

 white, shining ; margins ciliate, also petioles ; petioles very 

 slender, |in.-lin. long. Scape slender, very long 3in.-4iin., 

 with 1-2 minute distant linear acuminate bracts, glabrous 

 below, pubescent above near head, where it is also thickened. 

 Head small 2^ lines diameter, sub-hemispherical ; involucral 

 scales 16, disposed somewhat in 3 rows, the outer shortest, 

 linear-lanceolate, glabrous, greenish, the margins above 

 scabrid, tips lacerate and acute. Eay-florets 14-16, limb 

 linear, very membranous, much recurved, white ; tube very 

 short, hairy ; hairs patent, short : disc-florets few, about 6, 

 tube slender, sub-cylindrical, 5-cleft, tubercular, tips obtuse : 

 stigmas exserted, tubercular. Achene fusiform, turgid, mi- 

 nutely and thickly tuberculate throughout. 



Hab. Among other low herbage, open grounds dry edges 

 of clifl's banks of a stream south of Dannevirke, County of 

 Waipawa ; 1888 : W. C. Swamp at Eangipo, eastern base of 

 Mount Tongariro, County of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. 

 Hill. 



Obs. A species having close affinity with L. petiolata. 

 Hook, f., and also, though not so close, witliL. forsteri, D.C., 

 and L. comiucrsonii, Cass., but differing from them all in its 

 thinner orbicular and reticulate leaves, with their striking 

 silvery septate hairs and fewer serratm-es, in its numerous 

 involucral scales with lacerate ^tips, and in its tubercular 

 florets and acheues. 



