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Var. 8; foliis latioribus anguste lineari-lanceolatis marginibus revolutis, scapis validis. 
Var. y; foliis ut in var. a, involucri foliolis brevioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis. 
Var. 8; foliis lineari-elongatis flaccidis submembranaceis superne glaberrimis viridibus subtus niveis 
marginibus tenuiter recurvis. C. graminifolia, 77. Antarct. p. 35 in nota. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Var. B. Auckland, Sinclair. 
Mount Egmont, close to the perpetual snow, Dieffenbach. Var. y. Canterbury, Lyall. Var. 8. Bay of 
Islands, Sinclair, etc. Canterbury, Lyall. 
A very common and variable plant, generally growing in dense tufts. Leaves numerous, very long, slender 
and grass-like, 4-6 inches long, rigid or flaccid, usually acuminate, but sometimes blunt, the margins more or less 
recurved, often revolute to the costa; upper surface quite smooth in var. ð, in the other varieties covered more or less 
copiously with silvery white wool, which often forms a shining, delicate, loose cuticle, as in C. coriacea ; under sur- 
face more or less densely covered with white wool. Scapes stout or slender, longer or shorter than the leaves, bear- 
ing many linear bracteze 3—1 inch long, covered copiously with white floccose wool. Capitulum yellow, with a white 
ray, very variable in size, 3—2 inches across. nvolucre obconical, of narrow, slender, flat, loosely imbricating, 
woolly scales, brown at the tip, sharp or rarely (in var. y) blunt. Florets of the ray numerous, with narrow ligule. 
Pappus copious, yellowish or fuscous. Achenia quite smooth. Styles of the flowers of the disc with long acuminate 
branches. 
8 e. Leaves small, short, broad, downy beneath or smooth. Receptacle often deeply pitted, with stiff-toothed 
margins to the hollows. 
7. Celmisia incana, Hook. fil.; foliis congestis (1-13-uncialibus) obovato-oblongis lineari-obovatisve 
acutis utrinque vestitis subtus molliter dense superne laxius albo-lanatis incanis subplicatis marginibus 
tenuiter recurvis remote denticulatis, scapis solitariis plurimisve dense lanatis bracteatis, involucri squamis 
lineari-subulatis apicibus patulis fusco-tomentosis, radii ligulis gracilibus, achentis pilosis, receptaculo pro- 
funde alveolato. Tas. XXXIV. 4. 
Has. Northern Island. Mount Hikurangi and Ruahine range, Colenso. 
A small species, covered everywhere, except on the involucre, with white wool. Leaves coriaceous and rigid, 
numerous, crowded, spreading, 1—13 inch long, linear-oblong or obovate, sharp or blunt, narrowed into a very broad 
petiole, densely clothed with white silvery wool below, hoary above and grooved, margins hardly recurved, obscurely 
remotely toothed. Scapes usually several, very woolly, with many ovate subulate bracts, 3 inch long. Heads 
1-13 inch across, yellow, with a white ray. Zwvolucral scales numerous, linear-subulate, tomentose, with tawny or 
brownish down, somewhat glandular. Ray florets with narrow revolute ligule. Achenia hairy. Receptacle deeply 
pitted, with raised, stiff, chaff-like margins to the hollows. —PLATE XXXIV. 4. Fig. 1, receptacle; 2, floret of ray; 
3, floret of disc; 4, pappus; 5, arms of style; 6, stamen :—all magnified. 
8. Celmisia discolor, Hook. fil.; caule brevi robusto diviso folioso, foliis congestis patulis lineari- v. 
oblongo-obovatis obtusis subacutisve remote et obscure dentatis superne glaberrimis subsulcatis luride 
viridibus subtus lana arcte appressa argenteis, petiolo brevi lato vagina sulcata sericea, scapis gracilibus 
bracteis subulatis involucrique (subsquarrosi) squamis glanduloso-pubescentibus, capitulis ut in C. ¿ncana, 
acheniis sericeis, receptaculo profunde alveolato. 
Var. 8? foliis ellipticis petiolatis acutis apiculatis superne glabris planis submembranaceis inferne 
lana arcte appressa sericeis. (An sp. distincta?) 
Has. Middle Island. Nelson, on the mountains, Bidwill. Var. 8. Milford Sound, Zyall. 
A very similar plant to C. incana, and perhaps only a variety; it differs in wanting the soft woolly clothing on 
the under surface of the leaf, which is replaced by a closely appressed silvery coating; and in the upper surface 
being dark green and quite naked; also in the scape being covered with the same glandular pubescence as is con- 
