260 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITJE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
boge-yellow. The plant is microphylline; leaf under } in. long and 
zz in. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, shining above. 
2. C. Vauvilliersii Hook. f. Signal Hill, N.E. valley, Dunedin; 
December, in flower, W. L. L. Larger-leaved and with handsomer 
white flower than fulvida. Ascends to elevations of 3500 feet, e. g. 
on Mount Egmont (Buchanan). 
All the three species of Cassinia above named are more or less oi orna- 
mental, especially in cultivation, being hardy evergreens, with coriace- 
ous leaves (Heath-like in d the flowers supplying “an abun- 
dant nectar for bees” (Buchanan). 
Genus IV. CELMISIA. 
1. C. coriacea, Hook. f. The * Cotton-plant," according to Bu- 
chanan; the * Leather-plant," according to Hector, of Otago; the 
** Cotton-grass" or * plant," or * Leather-plant," of Nelson and other 
provinces; terms, however, applied apparently also to other species of 
Celmisia. The ** Tikumu" of the North Island Maori (Colenso). 
The leaves are covered with a down similar in its character and uses 
to that of the * Kaha-Kaha’’* [genus Astelia, N. O. Liliaceg]. Spe- 
cimens of the ** dressed fibre" of the leaf and of native cloth manufac- 
tured therefrom were shown in the N. Z. Exhibition of 1865. 
Of a total of 24 New Zealand species of Celmisia, at least 14 occur 
in Otago ; that is, more than one-half of the whole. 
Genus V. Microseris. 
1. M. Forsteri, Hook. f. In moist shady places about Fairfield, 
Saddlehill; marshes, Abbott’s creek, Greenisland ; October to Decem- 
ber, in fiet: W.L 
Leaves apt to be infeed by the parasitic Zeidium Otagense, Lind. 
(Observ. Otago Lichens and Fungi, Trans. Royal Society of Edin., vol. 
xxiv. p. 432, plate xxx. figs. 71-4 
Genus VI. CnasPEDIA. 
1. C. fimbriata, DC. Uplands about base of Saddlehill ; December, 
in flower, W. L. L. 
A slender plant. Tomentum very sparing on any part of it; fringe 
of white tomentum on leaf either very slight or absent. Leaf generally 
under 3 in. long and # in. broad, tapering into a slender petiole about 
or under 1 in. long ; lamina broadly spathulate, glabrous; tendency to 
irregular suberenulation of margin; dries to a blackish-green. Head 
under 2 in. in diameter. 
* ‘Jurors’ Reports,’ N. Z. Exhib. 1865, p. 126. 
