Erechtites.| COMPOSITH. 365 
oblong, grooved, hairy, crowned by a callous ring.—Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 142; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 157; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 
659; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 334. Senecio argutus, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Zel. 258; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 466; Raoul, Choix, 45. 
Norty Aanp SoutH Isnanps, StrEwart Istanp: Abundant from the Three 
Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. No- 
vember—February. Also in Australia and Tasmania. 
A common plant, varying much in stature, degree of pubescence, and the 
extent to which the leaves are toothed or divided. 
3. E. scaberula, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 157.—A slender erect 
annual 1-2ft. high; stem grooved, simple or branched above, 
rough with short white hispid hairs. Leaves 1-3 in. long, linear- 
oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, lower petiolate, upper sessile 
with small stem-clasping auricles, coarsely and irregularly toothed 
or pinnatifid, lobes acute, again sharply toothed, both surfaces 
rough with short hispid hairs. Corymbs terminal, lax; pedicels 
slender, glabrous. Heads +in. long; involucral bracts about 12, 
glabrous, subulate- lanceolate, acuminate, tips often recurved. 
Florets 20-30; females the more numerous. Achenes linear-ob- 
long, grooved, hispid, crowned by a small callous ring.—Azrk, 
Students’ Fl. 334. HH. hispidula, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 142 
(not of D.C.). EH. pumila, Avmst. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
338. Senecio hispidulus, A. Cunn. Precur.n. 462 (not of A. Rich.). 
NortH AND SoutH Isnanps, STEWART IsLAND, CHATHAM IsLAND: Not 
uncommon from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 1500 ft. No- 
vember—February. 
4. EH. quadridentata, D.C. Prodr. vi. 295.—An erect hero 
1-3 ft. high, usually much branched from a hard and woody base, 
everywhere more or less clothed with white cottony tomentum. 
Leaves 2-6 in. long, linear-elongate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
lower sometimes petiolate, upper sessile, with or without small 
auricles at the base, entire or with a few distant teeth; margins re- 
volute. Corymbs terminal, broad, lax. Heads +in. long, involucral 
bracts 12-14, narrow linear - lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or 
cottony, usually with a few minute ones at the base. Florets 
about 30, females the more numerous. Achenes linear-oblong, 
grooved and angled, hairy, abruptly contracted towards the tip, 
crowned by a callous ring.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 142; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 157; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 660; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
3384. Senecio quadridentatus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 48, t. 194; 
A. Cunn, Precur. n. 461; Raoul, Choix, 45. 
NortH anp SourH Isnanps, CHaTHAmM IsnAND: Abundant from the 
Three Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
November-January. Also in Australia and Tasmania. 
