Composita.] FLORA OF TASMANIA 
Distrib. South-east Australia {DC.) ; New Zetland. 
Variable in size, from 1 to 3 feet high. Evervuhen perteetlv smooth and glabrous. 
hairs on the youngest leaves and unexpanded eorymbs.— Leaves \ 
very narrow, acuminate; the lower petiolate; upper sessile, expanded at the base into broad lobes, which half clasp 
the stem; all sharply toothed. Corymbs branched, very large in fully formed specimens, fi-10 incl 
very numerous capitula, i inch long. Involucres quite glabrous. Achenln limar-oblong, grooved. ■ 
surmounted by a callous ring that surrounds the base of the pappus.— A New Zealand variety of this haa piim;ititid 
b. Plants more or less hispid or tomentosc. 
2. Erechtites arguta (DC. Prodr. vi. 29G) ; tota araneo-tomentosa, caule strieto erecto simplici \. 
diviso, foliis anguste lineari-lanceolatis oblongisve acuminatis subtus dense albido-tomentoeii - 
bratis araneosisve omnibus v. superioribus basi auriculato-bilobis trrosse imequalilcr dentate 
natifidisve lobis sinuato-dentatis iniVrioribus pleniiuqiu' pctiulatis, eomnbis lamosis ni.u i. 
lanatis, mvolucri foliolis glabratia, Horibua disci .Vdentatis, acheuns brcwter c.b! 
puberulis.— Fl. N. Zeal. i. 142 ; Bonder in Liint„-,t, xxv. 52 1. Sein-cm argutu 
Bot. Toy. Astrol. 104 (nou Knuf/t). {Gmm, -IDS, S 1 :J. j 
Var. (3. glabruta ; loliis glabratis simiato-pinnatiiidis conaceis utrin.jiie aspens. 
Var. 7. a-spera ; i'oliis subcoriacris araneusis aspmsve piiinatifn is segim n is 
mis interdum purpureis. 
:.-(Fl. Nov., Dec] 
Distrib. South-* 
. 
3. Erechtites quadridentata I 
dmplicibus v. rabaurieu] 
-carriage Island, Bass J 
iouth-eastern aud Sou 
