Kirk. — On Pleurophylluni. 43-3 



pappus. Tlie divergent condition of the stigmas is the only 

 point that could prove of the slightest value for specific pur- 

 poses, and that is doubtless due to the more advanced period 

 of the liowcring-season at which the specimens collected by 

 j\IM. Hombron and Jacquinot were collected. My specimens 

 collected in January have most of the styles in a divergent 

 condition, and but few approximate ; but the English Antarctic 

 Expedition finally left these islands on the 17th December, 

 which was a very early period for these southern plants, and 

 enhances the feeling of admiration with which the large 

 amount of work accomplished by the distinguished botanists 

 who accompanied the expedition is necessarily regarded. 



Professor Scott includes P. criniferuvi in his catalogue''' of 

 the plants of Macquarie Island ; but his specimen must be 

 referred to the next species. It is extremely probable that 

 both species occur there. 



3. P. liookcrianum, J. Buchanan, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 vol. xvi. (1883), p. 395, in part, excl. pi. xxxvii. P. 

 gilliesianuvi, T. Kirk, MS. 



Radical leaves 6in.-10in. long, 3in.-4in. broad, white on 

 both surfaces with silky, lax, or close tomentum, flat, ap- 

 pressed to the ground, forming a rosette ; obovate or oblong- 

 obovate, abruptly acuminate, narrowed into a broad sheathing 

 membranous base ; principal ribs 9-13, with numerous inter- 

 mediate parallel nerves, marginal teeth reduced to small 

 points. Scapes 1-3, 15in.-24in. high, naked below, except 

 3 or 4 lanceolate bracts at the base. Heads hemispherical or 

 almost globose, fin. diameter. Involucral leaves linear, acute 

 or acuminate, the outer with a few scattered hairs. Ray 

 flore^b few or 0, ligulate corollas short, bihd or bilobate. 

 Achene silky, pappus hairs in three series, not thickened 

 upwards. 



Hab. Mountains above Carnley Harbour, Auckland 

 Islands, T. Kirlc ; Campbell Island, /. Buchanan, T. Kirk ; 

 .Alacquarie Island, Professor Scott ! 600ft. -1,200ft. 



Easily distinguished by its silky acuminate leaves, ray- 

 less, hemispherical, or globose heads, and its small size. The 

 middle nerves are sometimes so close as to form a kind of 

 false midrib in the middle third of the leaf, but widen out in 

 the narrow basal portion. The scape is rigid, and carries from 

 lo to 24 heads on spreading peduncles, varying from Jin. to 

 lin. in length, with a linear almost filiform deciduous bractlet 

 at the Ijase of each ; in some specimens the upper portion of 

 the scajje is so deeply grooved that it becomes angular. In 

 most respects the ray-fiorets resemble those of P. crinijcruin, 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xiv., y}. .382. 



