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sometimes in the form of simple or double, rounded, large teeth. Lower 
and basal leaves frequently prolonged below into a petiole, which is often 
1 in. long; upper leaves only are sessile, with auricled base, Amount 
of cottony coating varies greatly ; sometimes very indistinct to naked 
eye; always most prominent and abundant on the young leaves, and 
flower and leaf-shoots. Involucral scales sometimes glabrous, or nearly 
so. 
2. E. quadridentata, DC. Uplands. about Saddlehill; December, 
in flower, W. L. L. The “ Peka-peka” or ** Peki-peki" of the South 
Island Maori (Lyall 
A much more ded plant than the preceding. Cottony down 
more appressed and finer; best seen on under side of leaf and on lower 
part of the grooved stem [young leaf-shoots very cottony-silvery]. 
Head panicled rather than corymbose ; panicle very open or lax, 4—5 in. 
long and 3 in. broad. Heads few; involucral scales glabrous. Bracts 
generally also glabrous. Leaf subspathulate below, linear above. Lower 
leaves generally under 3 in. long and } in. broad; while upper are 
less than $ in. broad. Lower basal ones longest and petioled ; while 
upper one sessile. Margin sometimes with a slight tendency to notch- 
ing; not more distinctly revolute than in arguta. Apex acute, sub- 
rigid. 
Genus XL GwAPHALIUM, “ Püatéa" is a Maori term apparently 
hes to such species as are used medicinally by the natives. Some 
pidly and vigorously in the open qudm, that he reports them “ likely 
to become weeds if not kept under 
1. G. bellidioides, Hook. f. piede about Fairfield, Saddlehill ; 
October, in flower, V L. 
My Otago plant has more the characters of G. prostratum, Hook. f. 
I have seen no authentic specimens of the latter; but from comparing 
the ‘ Handbook’ descriptions of óe//idioides and prostratum with my 
Otago plants, which have been referred to the former species by Dr. 
Hooker, I cannot doubt that both species may with advantage be con- 
sidered belonging to a single type. In my Otago specimens, the whole 
plant is stouter, more leafy, and more cottony than in Tarndale forms, 
which agree with the book-characters of bellidioides. Branches not ex- 
