850 Transactions.— Botany. 
Branches short, with the leaves on } inch diameter, closely compacted, and 
terminating on the surface i small firm knobs. Leaves imbricating 
in many series, } inch long, spathulate, rounded at top, membraneous, 
1-nerved, with dense patches of pale blueish-green hairs on both surfaces 
above the middle, and exceeding the tip of the leaf. Heads very small, 
jb inch diameter, 10-14-flowered ; flowers dark crimson, in two series, 
inner bisexual, outer pistiliferous only, pistil sometimes 3-cleft, involucral 
scales numerous, glabrous, narrow-linear and rounded at the entire tip, or 
linear-spathulate with radiating tips. Pappus of few rigid, broad, or flattish- 
shaped hairs, thickened towards the tip, and incised along its length. 
Hab.—Mount Holdsworth, Tararua range, North Island, 4,500 feet alt., 
1882. 
Plate XXX., fig. 2, plant nat. size; 2a, leaf; 2b, floret; 2c, scale; 
2 d, pappus hair. 
This plant is closely allied to Raoulia eximia, Hook. fil., from the 
Canterbury Mountains, and difficult to describe botanically as possessing 
much difference, yet its smaller size and bright red fragrant flowers 
present such contrasts as to claim for it a distinguishing name. This 
is the first occasion on which the vegetable sheep, as this and other 
species of Raoulia and Haastia are popularly named, have been collected in 
the North Island, affording an additional link in connecting the alpine 
floras of both islands. ; 
Haastia loganii, Buch., n.s. 
A small soft patch plant, forming little cushions on the ground or rocks, 
6-12 inches across, and covered with soft, pale greenish-white wool, branches 
with the leaves on } inch diameter. Leaves + inch long, entire, obovate or 
oblong, rounded at the tip or slightly cuneate, membraneous, 3-nerved, the 
nerves branching from near the bottom, recurved, arranged in several series, 
and hidden by the soft woolly hairs, which form a patch on the inner sur- 
face above the middle, and entirely covering the back. Heads } inch 
diameter, 40-50-flowered, involucral scales numerous, in several series, 
narrow-linear, obtuse, entire or with scarious tips, and with a small tuft of 
hairs on the middle of the back. Florets reddish, of two series, bisexual 
and pistiliferous, the first numerous, widening at the mouth, arms of style 
short, anthers without tails, the second with the corolla very short, tubular, 
mouth crenulate, styles with long exserted arms which are pappillose at the 
tip ; pappus of 1 series of rigid hairs, free below, very much thickened at 
the tip and often incised. Achene compressed, linear, and covered with 
rth Terarna RB North Island. 4.500 feet alt., 
* mess ” ce pease 2 . ie 2 f 
