264 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
tended into long peduncles. Stem and branches woody, glabrous, shin- 
ing. Leaves more uniform than in the Tarndale plant, but still variable ; 
more coriaceous, shining and glabrous above; more closely arranged 
and frequently subimbricate ; but they also occur both spreading and 
recurved in the same plant. Upper leaves approach the linear character, 
while lower are broadly ovate or lanceolate. Some of the broader 
leaves are distinctly apiculate, others only subacute. Size of leaf some- 
times 4 in. long and about 3 in. broad. Under side silvery without dis- 
tinct tomentum; even in young and upper leaves the tomentum more 
resembles a silvery coating of paint [as in some Celmisie] than cottony 
matter. Upper surface of young leaf dries a blackish-brown. Nerve 
or midrib never distinct. Flower-head larger than in the Tarndale 
plant; sometimes nearly 1 in. across. 
Tarndale specimens in my herbarium have the heads on long pe- 
duncles, and other characters of bellidioides. Stem is much more slen- 
der (filiform) than in my Otago plant, and the terminal or peduncu- 
late portion of the brauches is much less leafy. Leaves also are smaller 
and more delicate; upper very small, narrowly linear, passing into 
lanceolate ; lower obovate, apiculate, glabrous above, about 4 in. long 
and under 4 in. broad; spreading and recurved—not here imbricate. 
Margins frequently revolute. Under side more or less cottony-silvery 
[tomentum generally very fine and closely appressed]. Midrib ob- 
scure. Flower-heads }—? in. in diameter. 
2. G. collinum, Lab. Ranges about Finegand, Lower Clutha, 4—6 
in. high, W. L. L. So far represents in aspect and habitat our com- 
mon British Antennaria dioica, Gærtn. 
My specimens of collinum are small and somewhat slender plants 
under 4 ft. biga Leaves: lower (radical) petioled, under 2 in. long 
and heat 4 in. broad; upper sessile, spathulate below, becoming 
linear-laneeolate above; acute in both. Capitula small, of few heads. 
I have no hesitation in referring all my Otago specimens of involu- 
eratum and collinum to a single type. The only difference between 
them consists in the larger globular inflorescence of the former, which I 
cannot, however, regard as a sufficient specific distinction. Scape and 
plant generally are not so cottony in collinum as in the spreading, 
tufted forms of involucratum. Stems leafy as in the larger forms of 
involucratum. Leaves have the characters of those of that species, than 
which they are perhaps less variable ; more decidedly glabrous above 
