CELMISIA. 
with white. The blossoms are some couple of inches across. This 
is general in the Southern mountains up to about 4500 feet. 
C. Mackaut, also in cultivation, has pointed entire leaves some- 
times 20 inches long, conspicuous in the whole race for their simple” 
greenness, neither downy nor woolly nor silvered, though there is a 
small fluff of white cotton at the base where they narrow to the trunk. 
The scapes are a foot or two in height, either cotton-clad or naked, 
and the flowers are some couple of inches across. 
C. MacMahoni, from Mount Stokes in the South Island, at about 
3800 feet, is a rare and lovely species, forming wide tufted patches of 
close ground-hugging rosettes, made up of narrow-oblong rather 
acute little leathery flat foliage, densely silked on both sides with a 
coat of either silver or tawny-gold. All over this carpet rise stout 
short stems clothed in long silk, and set with many bracts, each carry- 
ing a daisy an inch wide or so. 
C. Monroi is an obscure difficult species, perilously close to C. 
coriacea, from which it should be distinguished by narrower and 
stiffer leaves, which are corrugated on both sides, instead of only on 
the upper as in C. coriacea ; while the flower-heads are rather smaller, 
and with shorter, broader rays. The distinctions, however, are not 
really solid, and these two Celmisias often seem to melt into one. 
(Alps of South Island.) 
C. sessiliflora is another minute alpine carpet, common in the 
mountains of the South Island, from 2500 to 5500 feet. It makes a 
grey mat of very dense leafy rosettes, and the blooms do not emerge 
at all from it, but nestle into the ends of the shoots, starring the mass 
with- white daisies. 
C. spectabilis has flown too high in its ambitious name, which it is 
unable adequately to carry. It is a largish grower, and here the 
leafuge is short and specially thick and stiff, matted or flocked (not 
closely felted), with buff-coloured wool on the lower surface. The 
scapes are several, towering high above the tuft, and each carrying a 
flower only some inch and a half across. (Mount Nelson, &c., to 
4500 feet.) 
C. Traversii has leaves from 6 to 16 inches long, and up to two and 
a half in breadth. They are oblong and either blunt or rather pointed, 
leathery in texture, and of a dark brownish green, with a silky midrib ; 
and their under-surface is clothed in soft fawn-coloured velvet, their 
leaf-stalk being half as long as themselves. The stalks rise to some 
18 inches or less, rusty also in velvet; while the marguerites have a 
certain loose white fluff, and are about 2 inches wide or rather less. 
(Alps of South Island, up to 4000 feet.) 
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