366 COMPOSITE. [Erechtites. 
5. BE. diversifolia, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 324. 
—A slender erect annual herb 1-23 ft. high. Stems grooved, 
glabrous or slightly cottony, simple or branched above. Leaves 
erect, 2-4in. long; lower oblong or linear-oblong, narrowed into 
long petioles, obtuse, rather membranous, glabrous above, often 
puberulous beneath, entire or remotely and minutely denticulate ; 
upper narrower, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile or nearly 
so, not auricled, glabrous or slightly cottony. Corymbs laxly and 
irregularly branched; pedicels slender, bracteate. Heads in. 
long; involucral bracts 12-14, linear-lanceolate, acute. Florets 
30-40 ; females much the most numerous. Achenes linear-oblong, 
grooved, hispid, crowned with a callous ring.—Kuirk, Students’ Fl. 
335. 
Nortu Isutanp: Swamps at Karioi, base of Ruapehu, Petrie! SovuruH 
IsLanD: Canterbury—Broken River Basin and Mount Cook, T. #. C. Otago— 
Common in the interior, Petrie! Bluff Hill, Hnys. Stewart Is~tanp: Kirk. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. December—January. 
Best distinguished by the almost glabrous habit and erect nearly entire 
membranous leaves. 
6. E. glabrescens, 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix. (1878) 550.— 
A slender- erect annual 1-3ft. high; stem grooved, simple or 
branched above, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves very variable in 
size and shape, 3-6in. long, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid with the segments irregularly sinuate-dentate, or pinnate 
with a large terminal leaflet and few or many much smaller lateral 
ones, lower petiolate, upper sessile with broad toothed auricles, 
membranous, often purple beneath, glabrous or nearly so. Corymbs 
lax. Heads tin. long; involucral bracts 10-12, lnear, acuminate, 
green with white margins. Florets 20-30; females the most 
numerous. Achenes longer than any other New Zealand species, 
4-1in. long, pale, linear, glabrous, obscurely grooved, attenuated 
above, crowned with a callous rmg.—Students’ Fl. 335. 
NortH IsxtanpD: Hrewhon, Upper Rangitikei, Petrie! Sourn Istanp, 
Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts throughout. Ascends 
to 4500 ft., descends to sea-level in Stewart Island. January-February. 
20. BRACHYGLOTTIS, Forst. 
Shrubs or small trees. Branches stout, spreading, densely 
clothed with white tomentum, as are the leaves beneath and 
branches of the inflorescence. Leaves large, irregularly lobed or 
sinuate. Heads small, very numerous, crowded in large much- 
branched terminal panicles, heterogamous, obscurely radiate. In- 
volucre narrow ; bracts in 1 series, linear, scarious, shining, usu- 
ally with minute subulate scales at the base. Receptacle small, 
foveolate. Florets of the circumference female, irregularly lobed or 
