258 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITIO OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
Genus II. SENECIO. Like Olearia, includes some of the most 
ornamental, arboreous, and shrubby Composite of Otago, beautiful 
alike in foliage and blossom. Some species abound on the ranges of 
the south-eastern districts, at elevations of between 1000 and 2000 
feet (Buchanan); while forms of certain common lowland species [e. g. 
S. bellidioides] ascend as high as 7000 feet, on the western alps. In 
Nelson, on the mountains of the west coast, species of Senecio com- 
monly attain an elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet (Haast). 
1. S. lautus, Forst. (var. y. macrocephalus, Hook. f. in my herba- 
rium). Greenisland Peninsula; and sand dunes about mouth of the 
Kaikorai; November, in flower, W. L. L. Has much the appearance 
of our S. vulgaris, L., and S. viscosus, L., which it may be held here so 
far to represent. 
ant glabrous. Dries to a leathery brown in some specimens ; while 
others retain somewhat their greenness of leaf. So infinitely variable 
is the leaf in its characters that it is equally impossible and unneces- 
sary to describe all its forms. Its most prominent variations relate to 
its general form, and to the nature and degree of its divisions. Some- 
times the leaf is 4 in. long and 1 in. broad ; tapering below into a petiole, 
being again subdivided like the more simple leaves. No leaves are 
entire; many resemble those of Erechtites arguta, than which they are 
generally larger. Auricles scarcely amplexicaul. 
Tarndale specimens in my herbarium more resemble Erechtites arguta 
than do Otago ones. Heads about as long as those of E. arguta ; the 
broader corymb more resembles the panicle of E. quadridentata. 
2. S. bellidioides, Hook. f. Among “ scrub,” base of Stoneyhill; 
December, in flower, W. L. L. My plant apparently corresponds to 
var. y of the * Handbook’ (p. 159). It appears to me unnecessary to 
place on record such varieties or forms as the three there given. Scape 
in my plant glabrous 3-4 in. long ; 1-flowered. Hairs brown, chaffy, 
coarse; most distinct and abundant in the young leaf-shoots, and 
especially in the young leaf-petioles. Leaf becomes blackish-green in 
herbarium ; 14 in. long and ? in. broad; broadly lanceolate or ovate, 
tapering into a short petiole (3 in. long). Apex subacute or rounded ; 
margin entire, or subcrenulate and subundulate; rugose reticulation 
of surface most distinct in the older leaves. 
