272 COMPOSITE. [Lagenophora. 
dry or scarious margins. Receptacle convex, naked. Ray-florets 
in 1-3 series, female, fertile, ligulate or rarely short and tubular ; 
ligule usually white. Disc-florets numerous, hermaphrodite, tubu- 
lar, with a broad 5-toothed limb. Anthers obtuse at the base. 
Style-branches of the disc-florets long, flattened, with lanceolate or 
triangular tips. Achenes compressed, abruptly contracted at the top 
into a more or less distinct beak ; those of the disc-florets often 
narrower and sterile. Pappus wanting. 
A smali genus of about 16 species, mainly found in Australia and New 
Zealand, but with outlying species in eastern Asia, the Sandwich Islands, and 
extra-tropical South America. 
Glabrate or pilose. Leaves mostly radical; petioles slender ; 
blade orbicular or broadly oblong. Heads }-3in. diam. 
Achenes small, nearly straight es } ib. 
Glabrate or pilose, slender. Leaves mostly radical ; petioles 
slender ; blade orbicular or obovate. Heads 4-4 in. diam. 
Achenes larger, curved or falcate bs St at 
Scaberulous. Leaves mostly cauline ; petiolesslender ; blade 
1. L. Forsteri. 
2. L. petiolata. 
oblong-spathulate. Heads 4-3 in. diam. ds .. 3. L. Barker. 
Glabrate or pilose. Leaves mostly cauline ; petioles slender ; 
blade ovate. Achene oblanceolate ae a: .. 4. L. purpurea. 
Softly hirsute. Leaves all radical; petiole broad, flat ; blade 
obovate, pinnatifid. Heads }-}in. diam. 5. L. pinnatifida. 
Leaves hirsute, all radical; petioles short, broad ; blade 
oblong-spathulate. Heads}4+4in. diam. Achene glabrous 6. L. lanata. 
L. linearis, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 471, is Brachycome lineata, 
Kirk. L. emphysopus, Hook. f., an Australian species, has become naturalised 
on Banks Peninsula and near Wellington. It has the habit, fleshy roots, and 
hirsute leaves of L. Janata, but can at once be distinguished by the short stout 
scapes and almost tubular ray-florets. 
1. L. Forsteri, D.C. Prodr. v. 307.—A small daisy-like herb, 
either tufted or with creeping and rooting stolons furnished with 
tufts of radical leaves at the nodes. Leaves all radical or cauline, 
14-2in. long; petiole long, slender; blade 4-lin., orbicular or 
orbicular-oblong to obovate, obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, 
coarsely crenate-dentate or almost lobed, almost glabrous or more 
or less hirsute. Scape 1-6in. long, slender, naked or with 1-3 
minute linear bracts. Heads +-4in, diam.; involucral bracts 
linear, acute; margins thin, scarious, entire or finely jagged. 
Ray-florets numerous; ligules white, revolute. Achenes small, 
linear-obovate, straight or very slightly curved, abruptly narrowed 
into a short hardly viscid beak; margins thickened.—A. Cunn. 
Precur. n. 486; Raoul, Choiz, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 125; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 137; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 256. Calendula pumila, 
Forst. Prodr. n. 305. Microcalia australis, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 
231, t. 30. 
KERMADEC IsLANDS, NoRTH AND SouTH IsLANDS, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM 
Istanps: Abundant throughout, ascending to 3000 ft. Papataniwhaniwha ; 
Native Daisy. October—February. 
A variable plant, very closely connected with the three following species. 
