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142 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Composite. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; not unfreguent, Banks and Solander, Colenso. East coast, 
Banks and Solander. Var. 8. Milford Sound and Otago, Zyall. 
Variable in size, from 1 to 3 feet high. Everywhere perfectly smooth and glabrous, except a few occasional 
hairs on the youngest leaves and unexpanded corymbs. Leaves 8-5 inches long, membranous, linear-oblong, 
often very narrow, acuminate; the lower petiolate; upper sessile, expanded at the base into broad lobes, which half 
clasp the stem; all sharply toothed, lobed and pinnatifid throughout their length in var. 8. Corymbs branched, very 
large in fully formed specimens, 6-10 inches across, of very numerous capitula, ¿inch long. Zuvolucres quite smooth. 
Achenia linear-oblong, grooved, the ribs hairy, surmounted by a callous ring that surrounds the base of the pappus.— 
This species has been found in Tasmania and in Lord Auckland’s Group. 
§ b. Plants more or less hispid or woolly. 
2. Erechtites arguta, DC. ; tota araneo-tomentosa, caule stricto erecto simplici v. diviso, foliis anguste 
lineari-lanceolatis oblongisve acuminatis subtus dense albido-tomentosis superne glabratis araneosisve omni- 
bus v. superioribus basi auriculato-bilobis grosse insequaliter dentatis sinuatis pinnatifidisve lobis sinuato- 
dentatis inferioribus plerumque petiolatis, corymbisramosis multifloris, pedicellis lanatis, involucri foliolis 
glabratis, flosculis disci 5-dentatis, acheniis breviter oblongis sulcatis glanduloso-puberulis. DC. Prodr. 
Senecio argutus, A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. S. plebeius, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Var. a; foliis lineari-oblongis longe petiolatis sinuato-dentatis. 
Var. 8; caule folioso, foliis sessilibus auriculatis profunde lobatis sinuato-pinnatifidisve. 
Has. Throughout the Islands; abundant, Banks and Solander, ete. 
A tall herb, 14-2 feet high, everywhere woolly or cobwebby with scattered white down, branched at the top 
into a very many-headed corymb. Leaves 3-5 inches long, narrow, linear, oblong or obovate; the lower generally 
contracted into a long petiole; upper (sometimes all) sessile, with a broadly two-lobed stem-clasping base; mar- 
gins unequally toothed, lobed or pinnatifid, with the lobes again toothed; upper surface nearly smooth, lower 
densely clothed with white wool; uppermost leaves at the axils of the corymb, subulate, with broad, two-lobed, 
toothed bases. Peduncles and pedicels woolly. Involucres woolly at the very base only, similar to those of the 
former species. Ackenia grooved, pubescent or papillose on the ridges —This is also a very common Australian 
and Tasmanian plant, always varying very much in the breadth and lobing of the leaves. 
3. Erechtites Aispidula, DC.; tota pilis brevibus albidis hispidula, caule simplici, foliis anguste 
lineari-oblongis obovatisve acutis eroso-dentatis v. ineegualiter lobatis lobis dentatis utrinque hispidulis 
basi breviter biauriculatis, corymbo effuso ramoso, pedunculis pedicellisque gracilibus glabratis, involucri 
squamis glaberrimis, flosculis disci 5-dentatis, acheniis elongatis sulcatis puberulis apice corona callosa 
superatis. DC. Prodr. Senecio hispidulus, A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab. p. 92. t. 34. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Bay of Islands to Akaroa, D’ Urville, Cunningham, ete. 
Very similar to Æ. arguta, but generally a smaller plant; the New Zealand specimens are not woolly, but 
covered everywhere, except the pedicels and involucres, with short, white, scattered, hispid hairs. Leaves more or 
less lobed and cut, 2-3 inches long, linear-oblong, sessile or narrowed into short petioles, having two small toothed 
lobes at the base, half-clasping the stem. Corymbs and capitula as in E. arguta; but the achenia are longer, and 
have at the top a callous ring surrounding the base of the pappus, as in Æ. prenanthoides —This is also a New Hol- 
land and Tasmanian plant, but the specimens from the latter country are woolly as well as hispid. Those figured 
by Richard have the leaves nearly entire. 
4. Krechtites quadridentata, DC. ; tota albido-lanata v. araneosa, caule erecto simplici v. ramoso, foliis 
angustissime lineari-elongatis acuminatis integerrimis marginibus revolutis basi simplicibus v. subauriculatis 
utrinque unidentatis, pedunculis pedicellisque glabratis, involucri squamis anguste linearibus, flosculis disci 
