132 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Composite. 
Var. e. Janata; tota lana laxa molli floccosa nivea induta. (Ad C. montanam Tasmanize accedit.) 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; abundant, from the East Cape southward. Var. 6. Milford 
Sound, Zyall. Var. e. Nelson, Bidwill (on the mountains). 
An extremely variable plant. Leaves generally all radical, with only small bracts on the scape, but sometimes 
running up the scape, 1-8 inches long, very variable in breadth, petiolate or nearly sessile, blunt and apiculate, 
obovate or spathulate, quite smooth or pubescent, or covered with scattered hairs, or woolly (in var. e). Scape 4 
inches to 13 foot high, covered with scattered bracts, smooth, pubescent, or woolly, stout or slender. Globular 
heads of capitula + inch to 2 inches broad, round, soft, dotted with the yellow florets.—Mr. Bidwill says of var. e 
that the smell is disagreeable, and like Rhubarb. 
Gen. XII. CASSINIA, Br. 
Capitulum pauci(9-12)-florum; flosculis omnibus hermaphroditis tubulosis v. paucissimis ambitu 
foemineis angustis. Receptaculum angustum, paleaceum ; paleis distinctis, linearibus, floribus immixtis, 
apicibus plerumque radiantibus albidis. Lnvolucri squame multiseriate, scariosee, exteriores imbricatee, 
breves, interiores sepissime elongate, apicibus albidis radiantibus. Stigmata obtusa, hispidula. Anthere 
incluse, basi bisetce. Achenium obovatum, erostre. Pappus 1-2-serialis; setis plurimis filiformibus, apice 
incrassatis aut penicillatis. 
Branching shrubs, with small, evergreen or rusty-coloured, harsh leaves, and panicles of many white flowers. 
Heads small, nine- to twelve-flowered ; flowers all tubular, hermaphrodite, or with a few slender female ones at the 
circumference. Receptacle very small, with narrow, linear, white-tipped scales, like the inner ones of the involucre, 
scattered amongst the florets. Scales of the involucre numerous, scarious, generally pubescent, outer imbricated, 
inner with white radiating tips. duthers with two bristles at the base. Achenium obovate, blunt. Pappus of one 
or two series of slender, soft hairs, which are pilose or thickened at the tips. —A rather extensive New Holland and 
Tasmanian genus. (Named in honour of M. Henri Cassini, an eminent French botanist.) 
1. Cassinia Zeptophylla, Br.; frutex ramulis fastigiatis incano-pubescentibus, foliis lineari-ligulatis 
confertis (ericoideis) patulis v. recurvis obtusis marginibus recurvis utrinque v. subtus incanis, corymbis 
terminalibus, eapitulis parvis, involueris turbinatis 6—8-floris glabratis v. tomentosis, acheniis puberulis. 
Br. in Linn. Soc. Trans. DC. Prodr. Calea, Forster. C. cinerea, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Var. 8; foliis paulo latioribus superne glaberrimis vernicosis. 
Var. y; foliis paulo longioribus superne glaberrimis subtus ramulisque tomento fulvo viscido tectis, 
involucris glaberrimis anguste obconicis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; especially on the east coast, growing in sandy places, Banks and 
Solander, Forster, Sinclair, etc. Var. B. Port Underwood, Lyall. Var. y. Canterbury? Lyall. 
Very variable in size (10-16 feet high) and woodiness of the stems and branches, which are covered with white 
down. Leaves small, heath-like, very numerous, uniform in size, 13—3 lines long, erowded on the slender branches, 
spreading or recurved, linear, blunt, hoary on both sides or below only, with recurved margins. Corymbs terminal, 
of many white, obconical heads, with white rays formed of the inner involucral scales, and the scales of the recep- 
tacle. Involucre longer than the leaves, imbricate; outer scales whitish, smooth or pubescent, six- to eight-flowered. 
Achenia smooth.—Very nearly allied to the following, and best distinguished from it by the narrow smaller leaves, 
and smaller heads of flowers. Var. 8 approaches C. retorta in the larger leaves, and var. y has the yellow and glu- 
tinous foliage and young leaves of C. Vauvilliersii. 
2. Cassinia retorta, A. Cunn.; robusta, ramis fasciculatis foliosis dense tomentosis, foliis plerumgue 
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