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long, white, spreading, ?-lin. long. Disc-florets with a campanu- 
late 5-toothed limb. Achenes linear, grooved, glabrous, slightly ex- 
panded and thickened at the tip. Pappus-hairs rigid, scabrid.— 
S. glastifolius, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 147, t.39; Handb. N.Z. 
Fi. 161 (not of Linn. f.). Solidago arborescens, A. Cunn. Prodr. n. 
435 (not of Forst.). 
Norrx Istanp : Common in hilly and wooded districts from the North Cape 
to Wellington. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
A very remarkable and beautiful species. The flower-heads are often so 
abundantly produced as to conceal the leaves, the multitude of snow-white rays 
then rendering the plant conspicuous from afar. In the northern forests it is 
often epiphytic on the distorted trunks of the rata (Metrosideros robusta). 
14. S. myrianthos, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1875) 
348.—A small sparingly branched shrub 3-12 ft. high ; bark black ; 
branches slender, when young clothed with thin buff tomentum. 
Leaves 3-7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, usually unequal and often slightly cordate at the base, 
sharply and coarsely doubly dentate, thin and membranous, glabrous 
above when mature, beneath clothed with silvery-white appressed 
tomentum, veins reticulated ; petioles slender, 1-2 in. long. Panicles 
large, terminal, often more than 2 ft. long; peduncles and pedicels 
slender, everywhere densely covered with short spreading purplish- 
brown glandular hairs; lower bracts often foliaceous, upper subu- 
late. Heads numerous, 4in. long, obconic; involucral bracts about 
8, linear-oblong, obtuse, membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Ray- 
florets 4-6, white; ligules very short and broad, fin. long. Disc- 
florets about 6; limb narrow-campanulate, 5-toothed. Achenes 
oblong, grooved, minutely hispidulous. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, 
minutely scabrid.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 346. S. Cheesemanii, Hook. 
f. m Ic. Plant. t. 1201. 
Nortu Isuanp: Ravines on the Cape Colville Peninsula, from Coromandel 
to Tairua and Waitekauri, 7’. 7. C., Adams! Sea-level to 750 ft. Novem- 
ber—December. 
A handsome and distinct species, well characterized by the membranous 
leaves, large elongated panicles, and small white ray-florets. The flowers are 
deliciously sweet-scented. 
15. S. sciadophilus, Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. iii. 2 (1844) 
119.—A slender climbing shrub 3-15 ft. high ; branches flexuose, 
often pendent, striate, clothed with short pubescence. Leaves 
distant, spreading, 1-2in. long; blade about half the length, orbi- 
cular or orbicular-ovate, coarsely toothed, membranous, clothed on 
both surfaces with short scattered hairs or glabrate ; veins reticu- 
lated. Heads 4in. diam., in few-flowered axillary or terminal 
corymbs, often forming an elongated terminal panicle; pedicels 
slender, pubescent. Involucre campanulate; bracts few, 6-8, 
linear-oblong, subacute ; margins scarious. Ray-florets 4-7; ligule 
