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Campbell Island species have not hitherto been found in New Zealand, and are much larger and finer plants than any 
here described. (Name, the diminutive of erros, slender ; in allusion to the habit of the species first discovered.) 
1. Leptinella sgualida, Hook. fil.; subsericea, foliis lineari-elongatis petiolatis gradatim superne latiori- 
bus pinnatifidis lobis alternis remotis approximatisve oblongis recurvis obtusis margine superiore pracipue 
apiceque argute serratis, capitulo majusculo, involucri sguamis 3-serialibus sericeis, flosculis eglandulosis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Hawke's Bay, Colenso. Akaroa, Raoul. 
Allied to Z. lanata of Lord Auckland’s Group, but very much smaller, and not woolly. Stems glabrous or 
pilose, rooting, ascending, 2—6 inches long, giving off tufts of leaves and scapes at the joints. Leaves more or less 
silky with scattered hairs, sometimes villous at the base of the petiole, 1-2 inches long, linear-oblong or spathulate, 
broadest towards the top, deeply pinnatifid; the lobes spreading, recurved, oblong, sharply-toothed along the upper 
margin and blunt point. Scape longer than the leaves, silky. Heads of florets rounded, + inch diameter. Involucral 
scales many, very broad, silky on the back, longer than the very numerous yellow florets. 
2. Leptinella minor, Hook. fil.; parvula, caule robusto radicante sericeo, foliis punctatis glabratis 
subcarnosis petiolatis lineari-oblongis pinnatifidis lobis lineari obovatis linearibusve patulis recurvis obtusis 
integerrimis v. secus marginem superiorem dentatis lobatisve lobis inferioribus minoribus, capitulis hetero- 
gamis nunc homogamis? flosculis glandulosis exterioribus stipitatis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, Banks and Solander, Colenso. Canterbury, Lyall. 
A much smaller species than the last, with more finely cut and regularly pinnatifid leaves. Stems stout, creep- 
ing, 3-8 inches long, smooth or silky. Leaves covered with glandular dots, rather fleshy, linear-oblong, quite 
smooth, or more or less pilose, 1-14 inch long, regularly inciso-pinnatifid ; lobes spreading, recurved, blunt, toothed, 
crenate or deeply lobed along the upper margin, the lower ones smaller. Heads about + inch across. Involucral 
scales silky or smooth, in about two series. Florets of the circumference female, in several series; those of the disc 
male; all covered more or less with large rounded glands.— Sometimes I find many flowers of one sex only in each 
capitulum, whence the plant is occasionally diccious. 
3. Leptinella dioica, Hook. fil.; glaberrima v. parce pilosa, foliis late v. anguste lineari-oblongis ob- 
ovatisve longe petiolatis crenatis serratis lobatis inciso-pinnatifidisve segmentis subacutis oblongis, scapis 
sericeis, involucri squamis pauci- v. pluri-seriatis, capitulis homogamis, flosculis glaberrimis. Cotula dioica, 
Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Soliva tenella, A. Cunn. Prodr. ? (fide exemplar mancum in Herb. Heward.) 
Var. a; folis glabratis longe petiolatis lineari-oblongis spathulatisve inciso-pinnatifidis lobis curvis 
integerrimis serratisve: (capitula 9 solum visa.) 
Var. 8; foliis glabratis longe petiolatis late obovatis rotundatisve crenato-lobatis lobis apiculatis : 
(capitula 9 solum visa.) 
Var. y. pusilla; caule robusto flexuoso, foliis brevius petiolatis forma var. a serrato-lobatis subpinnati- 
fidisve: (capitula Y solum visa.) 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; probably common. Var. a and 8. East coast; Cape Turnagain, 
Colenso; Akaroa, Raoul. Var. y. Cape Turnagain, Colenso. 
This species presents much variety in foliage, if all the varieties cited are not different species; and appears 
further to be constantly dicecious; for though I have examined several heads, I have never found one containing 
flowers of both sexes. Whole plant generally smooth, except the scape, which is rather silky. — Leaves very variable, 
3 inch (in var. y) to 3 inches long, more or less crenate, lobed or cut, broadly ovate or linear-spathulate, not dotted 
with glands, entire or pinnatifid ; the pinnules broadly oblong, blunt, quite entire or toothed. Male flowers with a 
very broad corolla. 
4. Leptinella pusilla, Hook. fil.; caule rigido repente ramoso, foliis albido-sericeis v. glabratis unciali- 
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