138 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Composite. 
A very handsome plant, 2-3 feet long, with the woody, prostrate, lower part of the stem sometimes a foot 
long, and as thick as a swan’s-quill. Branches ascending, 2 feet high, grooved and covered with silky pubescence, 
leafy. Leaves 2-4 inches long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, sharp-pointed, one- or three-nerved, glabrous above, 
densely covered below with white appressed silky wool. Corymbs of twelve to twenty white heads, 3 inch in dia- 
meter, on woolly peduncles.—Closely allied to G. frinerve, but a very much larger plant, with longer leaves and 
many-headed corymbs, which terminate the branches and are not pedunculate, 
4. Gnaphalium ¢rinerve, Forst.; caule elongato prostrato parce ramoso folioso apice sericeo in pedun- 
culum lanatum bracteatum corymbiferum abeunte, foliis patulis (3-2 unc.) obovato-spathulatis lanceolatisve 
acuminatis mucronatis enerviis v. 3-nerviis superne subsericeis glabratisve subtus argenteo-lanatis, corymbis 
oligocephalis, capitulis 3-6 longe pedicellatis, involucri squamis interioribus multiseriatis longe radiantibus, 
receptaculo lato convexo. Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Dusky Bay, Forster; Milford Sound, Zyall; foot of the Rua- 
hine range, Colenso. 
A beautiful and very distinct species, with prostrate, sparingly branched stems, 2 feet long, loosely covered 
along their whole length with spreading leaves; the branches silky and woolly, terminating in loosely bracteated 
woolly peduncles, 4-10 inches long, which bear a corymb of a few large heads. Leaves 4-5 inch long, obovate- 
spathulate, obscurely three-nerved or nerveless, abruptly acuminate, with a sharp mucro, glabrous, sparingly silky 
above, densely clothed below with silvery pubescence. Corymbs of three to six heads, on woolly pedicels. Heads as 
large as in @. Lyallii and similar to them.-—The specimen figured in Forster's collection of drawings has a more 
robust stem and larger leaves than Dr. Lyall’s. The three nerves are often very indistinct. 
5. Gnaphalium Keriense, A. Cunn.; caule basi decumbente ramoso brevi v. elongato, ramis ascenden- 
libus v. erectis lanatis apice abbreviatis v. elongatis corymbiferis, foliis anguste lineari-lanceolatis oblongo- 
obovatisve acuminatis v. obtusis et mucronatis 1-3-nervüs supra glabratis subtus dense niveo-tomentosis, 
corymbis polycephalis tomentosis, capitulis parvis, involucri squamis omnibus albidis longe radiantibus, 
receptaculo convexo latiusculo. Helichrysum micranthum, 4. Cuna. in DC. Prodr. G. dealbatum, Forst. 
Prodr. ? 
Var. B. linifolia; folis angustissime lineari-lanceolatis. 
Var. y. maeroleima; involucri squamis latioribus lacero-dentatis. 
Var. y. spathulata; folis spathulatis, corymbis pedunculatis. 
Has. Abundant in the Northern and Middle Islands, in various localities, Forster, Frazer, Cunning- 
ham, ete. | 
A rather variable plant in habit, size, and form of the leaves, easily recognized by the small heads from any of | 
the preceding. Stems slender, branching, naked below, and rather woody, prostrate, with erect branches 3-8 inches 
high, leafy towards the apex, and with terminal corymbs, which are sessile amongst the leaves or pedunculate. Leaves 
3-9 inches long, of all forms between very narrow linear-lanceolate and obovate, acuminate or mucronate, one- to 
three-nerved, glabrous, green above, white, with silvery appressed wool below. Corymds of many (five to fifteen) 
pedicellate heads; peduncle and pedicels woolly. Heads X inch broad, with spreading, linear, rather sharp, white 
involueral scales, which are rarely blunt and scarious, torn at the margin. 
y e. Heads corymbose or combined into a dense spherical mass. Imvolueral scales erect or conniving, hyaline, 
neither white nor forming a ray. 
6. Gnaphalium Zuteo-album, L.; dense lanatum, erectum, caule basi diviso, ramis simplicibus laxe 
foliosis, foliis linearibus lineari-lanceolatisve utrinque lanatis, capitulis corymbosis, involucri squamis fuscis 
v. flavescentibus. Linn. Sp. Pl. DC. Prodr., etc. G. candidum, Banks et Sol, MSS. et Ic. 
Has. Very abundant throughout the Islands, Bunks and Solander, etc. 
