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is also much more slender than in C. bellidioides. When fresh the leaves 

 are of a dull green, quite unlike the bright shining green of C. bellidioides. 

 Both Mr. Thomson and Mr. Speden inform me that it usually occurs in 

 crevices on the shaded sides of rocky cliffs ; often, in fact, in situations 

 where no direct rain can fall upon it, although drifting snow or fog might 

 reach it. So far as my experience goes, C. bellidioides is usually found 

 draping wet cliffs or creeping over wet gravelly slopes. 



4. Cotula Willcoxii Cheesem. n. sp. 



Species G. pectinatae Hook. f. affinis, sed foliis non pectinato-pinnati- 

 fidis facillime distinguenda. 



Caules 3-15 cm. longi, prostrati, copiose ramosi, radices fibrosas emit- 

 tentes, sparse sericeo-pilosi. Folia petiolata, cum petiolo 0-5-1-25 cm. 

 longa, glabra vel parce pubescentia, pinnatisecta ; lobis 1-2-jugis, lineari- 

 oblongis, subacutis. Pedunculi gracillimi, nudi, sparse pilosi, 2-5 cm. longi, 

 foliis multo longiores. Capitula 0-75-1 cm. diam. ; involucri squamae 

 1-2 seriales, oblongae, obtusae, marginibus scariosis et denticulatis apice 

 purpureis. Flores foeminei 2-3 seriales ; flores disci tubuloso-infundi- 

 buliformes, 4-dentati. Achenia angiiste obovata. 



Hab. — South Island : Head of Lake Wakatipu, Otago, near Mount 

 Earnslaw, W. Willcox ! 



Stems lJ-6 in. long, creeping and rooting, copiously branched and 

 usually forming compact patches, sparsely silky-pilose or sometimes nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, with the petiole i-^ in. long, glabrous 

 or faintly pubescent, gland-dotted, pinnatisect ; segments usually a single 

 pair with a terminal one, rarely two pairs, flat, linear-oblong, subacute, 

 usually quite entire or very rarely one or both of the lower segments are 

 forked at the tip. Peduncles long, slender, naked, sparingly pilose, |— 2 in. 

 long, much exceeding the leaves. Heads ^— J in. diam. ; involucral bracts 

 in 1-2 series, oblong, obtuse, purplish at the tips, margins scarious, jagged. 

 Female florets in 2-3 series ; florets of the disc narrow funnel-shaped, 

 4 toothed. Achene narrow-obovoid. 



A weU-marked species, closely allied to C. pectinata in the structure of the 

 flower-heads, but in other respects presenting well-marked points of differ- 

 ence. It is larger, and much more glabrate ; the peduncles are longer and 

 more slender ; and the leaves are never pectinate-pinnatifid, as is always 

 the case in C. pectinata. Usually the leaves have only a single pair of seg- 

 ments with a terminal one, but more rarely there are two pairs of segments, 

 in that case resembling some small forms of C. pyrethrifolia. From that 

 plant, however, it is at once distinguished by the bisexual flower-heads, 

 to say nothing of other differences. The only specimens that I have seen 

 are those collected by Mr. Willcox, of Queenstown, and I have much 

 pleasure in associating his name with the plant. 



5. Senecio lapidosus Cheesem. n. sp. 



Affinis S. Monroi Hook, f., sed minore, et capitulis solitariis maxime 

 differt. " 



Fruticulus humilis, prostratus vel suberectus, densissime ramosus, 

 15-18 cm. altus, 20 25 cm. diam. Rami numerosi, divaricati et densissime 

 compacti, basi robusti, lignosi, cortice pallido ; ramulis apicibus ascen- 

 dentibus, foliosis, lanato-tomentosis. Folia 2^ cm. longa, 1-1-5 cm. lata, 

 oblonga vel elliptico-ovata, obtusa, coriacea, supra arachnoideo-tomentosa, 



