Senecio. | COMPOSITE. 371 
4-1in. diam., yellow ; involucral bracts glandular and tomentose. 
Rays }-4in. long, spreading. Achenes linear, glabrous.—Choi«, 
Set. 17; Hook.f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 143; Handb. N.Z. Fl 158 - 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 338. 
NortH AnD SoutH Istanps: Not uncommon from Taupo and the Ruahine 
Mountains to the south of Canterbury. Sea-level to 4500 ft. November- 
January. 
2. S. bellidioides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 144.—Very similar 
to S. lagopus, but smaller and more slender. Leaves al] radical, 
spreading ; blade #-4 in. long, broadly oblong to linear-oblong, ob- 
tuse or subacute, rounded or slightly cordate at the base or narrowed 
into the petiole, membranous or subcoriaceous, entire or crenulate, 
upper surface rugose or almost flat, more or less covered with short 
stiff bristles, beneath glabrate or sparingly clothed with white or 
brownish tomentum ; petioles long or short, usually woolly. Scapes 
1-12 in. high, simple or branched, cottony or glandular-pubescent, 
rarely glabrate ; bracts few, small, acute. Heads 1 to many, $-1in. 
diam.; involucral bracts tomentose or glabrate. Achenes linear, 
glabrous. — Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 338. S. 
Traversii, F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vii. (1861) 154. 
Var. glabratus, Kirk, 1.c.—Leaves broadly oblong, glabrous beneath, spar- 
ingly setose above. 
Var. angustatus, Kirk, |.c.—Leaves linear-oblong, apex rounded or sub- 
acute. 
SoutH Isnanp, SrHwart IJIs~tanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts 
throughout. 2000-5000 ft. December-February. 
This appears to pass into S. lagopus, but in its usual state can generally be 
distinguished by the smaller size and more membranous leaves, which are often 
quite glabrous beneath, seldom white and cottony. 
3. S. Haastii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159.—Rootstock stout 
or slender, more or less clothed at the top with soft whitish wool. 
Leaves all radical; blade 2-5 in. long, broadly oblong or orbicular- 
oblong, obtuse at the tip, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 
subcoriaceous, obscurely crenulate, both surfaces covered with soft 
white lax or appressed tomentum, or the upper surface hoary- 
tomentose or almost glabrate ; petioles slender, 2-6in. long, white 
and cottony. Scapes slender, 5-15in. high, simple or branched, 
cottony and slightly glandular; pedicels long, slender; bracts few, 
linear or linear-obovate. Heads 1-8, 2-14 in. diam.; involucral 
bracts linear-oblong. subacute, white and cottony. Achenes narrow- 
linear, glabrous.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 339. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Clarence Valley, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Broken 
River, Hnys! Kirk! T. F. C.; Mount Cook district, Haast! T. F. C.; shores 
of Lake Ohau and source of the Ahuriri, Haast. Otago—Lake Hawea, Haast; 
not uncommon in the interior, Hector and Buchanan! Petrie ! 1500-4000 ft. 
December—January. 
