CELMISIA. 
however, not all can be expected to be of equal hardiness, the follow- 
ing list merely selects from Cheeseman’s Flora of New Zealand the 
mountaineering species likely to be of most profit to us, alike in vigour 
and in beauty. 
C. coriacea is well known in cultivation ; it makes a tuft of very 
“ample corrugated leaves, broadly oval and pointed, plated with a fine 
_ film of silver above, and woolly-white with down below. From this 
there emerge stolid stout stems, also densely woolly, about a foot ora 
yard in height, each carrying one big silvery daisy of shining white, 
that (as in nearly if not quite all Celmisias) is only just not quite 
large enough to balance the inordinate thickness of the stem. This 
species is general in the South Island, and the only one of the family 
that ever produces a branched scape; and this only in cultivation. 
_ It sometimes seems to verge upon C. Monrot. 
C. Dallit, much smaller, with flowers 3 inches across; about a 
foot high or so, with leathery spreading foliage in a rosette, smooth 
above, and clothed in buff-coloured felt below. (Up to 5000 feet in 
South Island.) 
C. Hectori is a branching and prostrate plant, often woody and 
with closely tufted leaves, narrow and about an inch long and 
rather blunt, packed into tightly serried rosettes, and beautifully 
silky-silver both above and below, curling down along their edges. 
The flower-stems are only some 2 or 4 inches high, stout, each carrying 
an inch-wide daisy. (Mount Cook, &c., 4500 to 6000 feet ; South 
Island.) 
C. holosericea, rather larger, but with the same spreading leafage 
smooth above and white below ; the flowers are as big as in the last, 
carried on slender stems of a foot or two, these stems being glabrous, 
so that altogether why this species should be called par excellence the 
Wholly-silky does not clearly appear in its description. (Up to 4000 
feet in South Island.) 
C. laricifolia is a tiny prostrate thing, forming a carpet of very 
narrow-leaved stiff and prickly rosettes of silver spines, from which, 
on slender stalks of 2 or 4 inches, escape white stars of half an inch 
across. (C. linifolia is another charmer in the same line.) 
C. Lindsayi, which is in general cultivation, has much more 
crowded leathery leaves to the tuft; they are narrow-oblong and 
white beneath, while each carries a flower of about a couple of inches 
across, on a bending graceful scape some 2 to 8 inches high. 
C. Lyallii makes a dense radiating star of quite narrow, sword-pointed 
foliage, stiff and tapering and fierce. The leaves are smooth above 
and hairless, while below they are corrugated, and either bald or felted 
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