Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 127 



Obs. Caulis herbaceus. Folia ovata, coriacea, integra, supra sulcata, 

 subtus villosa. Scapus foliosus, uniflorus, lanugiuosus. 



" Cette espece, fort voisine de la prdc^dente, n'en est peut-etre 

 qu'une simple variete." A. Rich. I. cit. 



I have no means of ascertaining to what genus these species, if 

 distinct from each other, belong, as Forster says but little of the real 

 structure of the achenium, and nothing at all of the form of the pap- 

 pus. They appear, however, to be species of Calmisia. Cass. 

 4. Haxtonia, Caley. D. Don. 

 Involucrum polyphyllum imbricatum. FIoscuU radii foeminei ligulati, 

 stigmatibus linearibus obtusis, sulco exaratis, margine incrassatis ! Disci 

 hermaphroditi. AcheJiia sulcato-angulata. Pappi radiis persistentibiis, 

 apicc penicillatis ! D. Don. 



440. H . furfuracea, fruticosa, foliis ellipticis coviaceis petiolatis obtusis, 

 margine undulatis integerrimis dentatisve, supra laevibus subtus argenteo- 

 furfuraceis, corymbis lerminalibus, "radiis temis." — Aster furfuraceus. A. 

 Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 246.— A. elongifolius. A. Cunn. Ms. 1826. 



Tarata Incolarum fiuvii Thames. D'Urville. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of rivers, at the Bay of Islands. 

 1826. A. Cunningham. — 1834, R. Cunningham. River Thames. — 1827, 

 D'Urville, 



Obs. Frutex6 — 10 pedalis. 



5. ViTTACLiNiA, A. Richard. 

 Capitula radiata. Involucrum polyphyllum imbricatum. Receptaculum 

 alveolatum. Semifloscidi exteriores foeminei longiores, revoluti ; flos- 

 culi interiores hermaphroditi tubulosi, graciles. Stamina 5 libera ; an- 

 theris linearibus, basi abnipte recurvatis. Stigmata duo linearia. Ache- 

 nium teres basi stipitatum. Pappus sessilis, fimbriato-pilosus. 



441. V. australis. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 251. — Brachycoma spathulata. 

 Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 467. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. (Middle Island.) 

 On the sandy rocky shores of the French strait (Passe des Francais). Tas- 

 man's Bay.— 1827, D'Urville. 



Planta ramosa, erectiuscula, subpilosa, 6 — 8 uncias alia. Folia obovali- 

 spathulata sub 5-loba, lobo terminali majore obtusa. Capitula terminalia so- 

 litaria. Flores radiati. 



IV. SENECIONIDE^, Lessing. 



1. BiDENS, L. 



442. B. pilosa. L. Forst. Prodr. n. 283. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 235. 

 Koeriki sh mAigenh. D'Urville. — Horikike Incolarum secimd. R.Cun- 

 ningham. 



New Zealand. Most frequent on cultivated ground, chiefly on the North- 

 ern Island. G. Forster. D'Urville. R. Cunningham. 

 2. CoTULA, L. Lessing. 

 Capitulum, heterogamum, floribus ? uniserialibus saepe sterilibus in 

 ambitu, reliquis $ fertilibus. Achenium calvum, flori foemineo stipi* 

 taturo, piano- compressuni, flori hermaphrodite se§sile et angustius, 



