146 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Composite. 
hemispherical, 4 inch long; twice as broad, and depressed, in var. y. Scales linear, acuminate. Achenia linear- 
oblong, deeply grooved, the ribs pubescent. Pappus soft, fine, and silky.—This most variable plant abounds in 
Australia and in Tasmania, varying everywhere ; it is apparently the S. carnulosus, DC., S. crithmifolius, DO., and 
S. australis, Herb. A. Cunn., and, further, is very closely allied to some South American species. 
7. Senecio Zyallii, Hook. fil.; caule herbaceo simplici erecto folioso superne supra medium corym- 
boso florifero, foliis angustissime et longe lineari-ligulatis acuminatis integerrimis 1-nerviis inferioribus basi 
vaginatis superioribus gradatim brevioribus sessilibus semiamplexicaulibus, corymbo simplici polycephalo, 
pedunculis axillaribus erecto-patentibus sublanatis inferioribus longissimis bracteatis, involucri squamis 
lineari-oblongis glanduloso-pubescentibus, ligulis amplis elongatis patentibus involucro duplo longioribus, 
acheniis linearibus dense sericeis, pappo parco insequali scabrido. 
Has. Middle Island. Milford Sound, Lyall. 
There are three specimens of this superb plant in Dr. Lyall's herbarium, perfectly similar to one another.— 
Stem quite simple, herbaceous, erect, purple and deeply furrowed below, throwing out numerous very long slender 
peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves, which all attain the same level, and bear beautiful large heads, nearly 
2 inches broad, of golden-yellow florets; base of the stem with a few sheaths of old leaves, covered with long 
villous silky hair. Leaves numerous, the lower 10 inches long by ž inch broad; they become gradually smaller up 
the stem ; all are quite smooth and entire, with one central nerve and long sharp point; the upper sessile and half- 
clasping the stem, the lower with broader sheathing petioles. Peduncles very slender, rather woolly, bearing scat- 
tered linear bracts, the lower 8 inches long. Involucres $ inch long; scales glandular and pubescent. Achenia long, 
silky. Pappus scanty, of few unequal rigid bristles. 
8. Senecio? scorzoneroides, Hook. fil.; erectus, caule folioso basi vaginis sericeis foliorum delapsorum 
dense obtecto pubescente superne oligocephalo glanduloso, folis omnibus integerrimis marginibus planis 
radicalibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis elongatis caulinis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis gradatim minoribus 
basi latioribus semiamplexicaulibus inferioribus glabratis supremis glanduloso-pubescentibus, corymbo 3-6- 
floro, pedunculis robustis bracteatis, involucri hemispheerici squamis glandulosis, acheniis lineari-elongatis 
pilosis vix sulcatis, pappi setis paucis acheniis «equilongis 1-serialibus scabris sordide albis. 
Has. Middle Island. Dusky Bay, Lyall. 
Dr. Lyall's specimens of this plant are good in all respects except being past flower, whence I have referred 
the species doubtfully to Senecio, from which it differs in the uniseriate scanty pappus. It is in this respect, how- 
ever, as in all others, so closely allied to 8. pulcherrimus, that I cannot doubt its proving to be rightly placed here. 
It differs from that plant in the much broader leaves, in the very short peduncles of the few-headed corymb, and in 
the less silky achenium. Stems (of fruiting specimens) stout, erect, simple, except at the top, which forms the 
branching corymb, 1 foot high, smooth below, glandular-pubescent above, covered below with a thick ball formed 
of the silky sheaths of the old radical leaves. Leaves all rather coriaceous, quite entire, margins not recurved, 
lower smooth, upper glandulose and pubescent, 4-5 inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, smooth ; 
cauline numérous, generally smaller, ovate-lanceolate, broadest near the base, and tapering to a long acuminate 
point, which is blunt; half-clasping the stem at their sessile bases, 2-3 inches long. Corymbs of three to six heads; 
peduncles stout, glandular, bracteolate. Involucres broadly hemispherical, $ inch across. Scales narrow, linear- 
lanceolate, glandular. Receptacle convex. Achenia narrow, linear, 2 lines long, covered with hairs. Pappus as 
long as the achenium, dirty white, of one series of unequal scabrid hairs. Florets of the disc as in S. pulcherrimus; 
those of the ray have fallen away. Radical leaves few, 
9. Senecio Banksii, Hook. fil.; glaberrimus, caule erecto ramoso flexuoso, foliis lineari-oblongis acu- 
minatis grosse irregulariter dentatis sessilibus basi late cordatis 2-auriculatis amplexicaulibus utrinque 
glaberrimis nitidis reticulatim venosis, corymbis polycephalis, pedunculis pedicellisgue gracilibus, involucri 
