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* Achenes villous. Flowers white except in 1. 
Stem leafy, 2-3 ft. high. Flowers yellow 50 1. G. urbanum. 
Leaves chiefly radical, 3-5in. long. Panicles few- flowered. 
Styles longer ve the achenes” 2. G. parviflorum. 
Leaves all radical, $-ldin. Flowers small, in 35. flowered 
racemes. Hives fghortér than the achenes 3. G. sericeum. 
Leaves all radical, 1-3in. Flowers solitary, large, Bit in. 
diam. Styles long : aye ae .. 4. G. uniflorum. 
** Achenes glabrous. Flowers small, white. 
3-6 in. high. Flowers in cymose panicles a -. oO. G. leiospermum. 
1-2in. high. Flowers solitary a 55 -. 6. G. pusillum. 
G. alpinum, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 216, is quite unknown to 
me, and there are no specimens in his herbarium. The original description is 
vague and insufficient, and the name had far better be dropped. 
1. G. urbanum, Linn. Sp. Plant. n. 501, var. strictum.— 
An erect sparingly branched herb 1-3 ft. high, usually softly pu- 
bescent or villous in all its parts. Radical leaves very variable 
in size, 4-18in. long including the petiole, pinnate; leaflets 3-5 
pairs with much smaller ones intermixed, 1—3in. long, ovate or 
obovate, cuneate at the base, sessile, variously toothed lobed or 
pinnatifid. Cauline leaves few, smaller, with fewer and more 
sharply toothed leaflets, sessile or nearly so; stipules leafy, coarsely 
toothed or lobed. Flowers $-?ir. diam., yellow, few together in 
a loose terminal panicle; peduncles slender, erect. Calyx-lobes 
ovate, acuminate, reflexed in fruit. Petals obovate, exceeding the 
calyx. Achenes very numerous, forming a dense oblong head, 
spreading and recurved, hispid with long silky hairs; awn long, 
hooked at the tip.— Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 55; Kirk, Students’ 
Fi. 128. G.magellanicum, Comm. ex Pers. Syn. ii. 57; Hook. f. 
Fil. Nov. Zel. i. 55. 
NorrH AND SourH Isuanps: Not uncommon from the Paparata Valley 
and Waikato River southward. Sea-level to nearly 3000 ft. November-— 
January. 
The New Zealand variety has a wide distribution in the Southern Hemi- 
sphere, and is found in some parts of Asia as well. It differs from the European 
G. urbanum principally in the taller and more robust habit and larger flowers. 
2. G. parviflorum, Sm. in Rees Cyclop. v. n. 12.—An erect 
or spreading perennial herb 4-18 in. high, everywhere clothed with 
silky or villous hairs, sometimes almost shaggy ; rootstock stout, 
woody. Radical leaves 2—5 in. long, pinnate; terminal leaflet very 
large, $-2in. diam., rounded-reniform, obscurely 3-5-lobed, crenate, 
hairy on both surfaces; lateral leaflets 4-8 pairs, all minute, deeply 
cut and lobed. Cauline leaves or bracts few, small, deeply 
toothed. Panicles lax, few-flowered; pedicels long, slender. 
Flowers 4in. diam., white. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse or 
subacute. Petals broad, obtuse, longer than the calyx. Achenes 
very numerous, spreading, stipitate, clavate, villous; style slender, 
