372 COMPOSITA. [ Senecio. 
4, S. saxifragoides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 144.—Rootstock 
short, stout, as thick as the thumb, densely shaggy with soft 
brownish wool. Leaves all radical, spreading ; blade 3-6 in. long, 
broadly oblong or orbicular, obtuse at the tip, rounded or slightly 
cordate at the base, sometimes oblique, thick and coriaceous, entire 
or crenulate, upper surface silky or villous, not bristly, becoming 
glabrate when old; under-surface densely clothed with white woolly 
tomentum ; petioles stout, 1-4 in. long, woolly or villous. Scapes 
stout, 2-12in. high, simple or branched, densely covered with white 
or purplish glandular tomentum; bracts linear or linear-oblong. 
Heads 2-8, 3-14 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute, thickly 
tomentose. Achenes linear, glabrous. — Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159; 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 339. 
SoutH Istanp: Port Lyttelton and other localities on Banks Peninsula, not 
uncommon. January—March. 
A handsome species, separated from large states of S. lagopus, some of which 
approach it very closely, by the much stouter habit, more copious villous hairs, 
and larger thicker leaves, which are silky above and never show the stout bristly 
hairs so characteristic of S. lagopus and bellidioides. 
5. S. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 146.—A leafy herb 1-2 ft. 
high or more, usually glandular-pubescent or almost villous, rarely 
glabrate. Rootstock thick, crowned with long silky hairs. Stem 
stout or slender, simple, erect. terminating in a broad corymb of 
many flower-heads. Leaves numerous, quite entire; lower 2-10 in. 
long, ;#4,-+in. broad, linear or narrow-linear, acute or acuminate, 
contracted or petiolate above the sheathing villous base, 1—5-nerved ; 
cauline gradually becoming smaller, sessile, amplexicaul, tapering 
from the base to the apex. Corymbs usually large and broad; 
peduncles 1-5in. long, slender, simple, bracteate. Heads large, 
1-21 in. diam. ; involucral bracts in 1 series, linear, pubescent or 
glabrate. Ray-florets 4-lin. long, yellow, spreading. Achenes 
linear, silky, ribbed. Pappus-hairs unequal, rigid, scabrid. — 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 160; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 339. 
Var. scorzonerioides, Kirk, l.c. 340.—Glandular-pubescent. Stems more 
robust. Leaves shorter and broader, 2-8 in. long, #~#in. broad, linear-lanceolate 
or lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved. Heads larger; rays vary- 
ing in colour from yellow or salmon-coloured to pure white.—S. scorzonerioides, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i, 146. 
SoutH Istanp, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts 
throughout. Descends to sea-level in Stewart Island, ascends to quite 5000 ft. 
in Nelson and Canterbury. December-February. 
An exceedingly handsome plant, forming one of the chief ornaments of the 
subalpine flora of the South Island. 
6. S. antipodus, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 341.—An erect much- 
branched annual or biennial herb 1-2ft. high; stems _ stout, 
fistulose, 2-4in. diam.; branches spreading, grooved. Leaves 
