220 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composita. 
describes the achenia as rostrate, which is scarcely the case, those of my specimens being but obscurely contracted 
below the apex ; his E. tenuifiora appears to me to be only a glabrous form, for the whole plant varies extremely 
in the amount of woolly tomentum on all its parts ; and authentic specimens of E. tenuifiora are not altogether gla- 
brous, as described by De Candolle, the leaves being tomentose beneath. Whole plant more or less clothed with 
loose, white wool, except the pedicels and involucres. — Stents simple or branched, 2-3 feet high. Leaves rather 
stiff, very long and narrow, 2-8 inches long, often much crowded on the stems, ±-^ inch broad, sharp, margins 
recurved, very woolly below, cobwebby above, quite entire or with a tooth on each side at the base, where they are 
sessile on the stem. Corymbs spreading, with very slender branches. Involucres much larger than in any of the 
former species, nearly \ an inch long, narrow ; scales very slender, green. 
4. Erechtites hispidula (DC. Prodr. vi. 296) ; laxe araneoso-tomentosa v. nuda pilisque brevibus 
albidis hispidula, foliis radicalibus petiolatis longe oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis grosse irregulariter dentatis 
v. sinuato-pinnatifidis inferne albo-tomentosis glabratisve et concoloribus caulinis linearibus marginibus 
revolutis sessilibus v. basi biauriculatis, involucri basi sgepissime incrassati squamis glaberrimis, floribus 
disci 5 -dentatis, acheniis elongatis sulcatis erostratis puberulis apice callo superatis. — Fl. N. Zeal. i. 142 ; 
Bonder in Linnaa, xxv. 524. Senecio hispidulus, A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 92. t. 34. E. glabrescens, DC. 
I.e. {Gunn, 508.) 
Hab. Launceston, Circular Head, etc., Gunn. — (Fl. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia; New Zealand. 
This is a variable species, especially as to the amount of tomentum on the foliage, stem, and corymb, and the 
cutting of the leaves. New Zealand specimens are much more hispid, and have the leaves more toothed, and 
almost pinnatifid. The capitula also vary much in size, being sometimes very narrow and slender, and at others 
broad, when the scales are united at the base into a fleshy, broad, obconic mass. The species approaches very near 
to E. arguta, which has usually shorter capitula. De Candolle describes the achenia of E. glabrescens as rostrate, 
but they are certainly not so, though slightly contracted below the apex.— Stems and leaves more or less hispid, 
and sometimes tomentose with lax, white wool, erect, 1-2 feet high, simple or branched from the roots or above 
the middle. Leaves 3-7 inches long, petioled, oblong or linear-lanceolate, entire, toothed or pinnatifid, hispid 
above, covered loosely with white tomentum or glabrous beneath; the cauline narrow-linear, sessile. Capitula 
J—i inch long, and i-i broad. 
5. Erechtites Gunnii (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 122) ; laxe araneo-tomentosa, caule 
erecto robusto sulcato, foliis longe petiolatis anguste oblongo-lauceolatis obtusis denticulatis supra glabris 
subtus araneo-tomentosis, caulinis linearibus sessilibus marginibus revolutis, corymbo subcontracto, capi- 
tulis basi araneosis, involucri squamis nitidis, floribus disci 4-dentatis, acheniis anguste linearibus apice dis- 
coideis sulcatis glaberrimis. (Gunn, 700.) (Tab. LXIII.) 
Hab. Common on the summits of the Western Mountains, elev. 3000 feet, in moist places : Arthur's 
Lakes, Marlborough, etc., Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Jan., Feb.) 
This appears to be a very distinct species, though in so difficult a genus it is never safe to assume that what 
appears very different will prove to be so if exposed to other conditions. All my specimens however from three 
localities are quite similar, and the glabrous achenia afford a very good character. The cobwebby wool is like that 
of E. quadridentata, and the foliage resembles that of E. hispidula, except that the leaves are never cut or lobed, 
but only minutely toothed at the margin.— Stems robust, 1-2 feet high, furrowed. Leaves 2-5 inches long, narrow, 
oblong-lanceolate, on long petioles, smooth and glabrous above, covered with lax, white tomentum beneath ; the 
upper sessile, with revolute margins. Involucres generally black-purple, \ inch long. Achenium contracted below 
the apex, but not rostrate.— Plate LXIII. Fig. 1, flower of ray j 2, arm of its style ; 3, flower of disc ; 4, pappus ; 
5, corolla laid open ; 6, stamen ; 7, arms of style -.—all magnified. 
