356 Transactions.— Botany. 
Inner, in several series % inch long, j; inch broad, membraneous and 
glabrous, inner series ciliate on upper half and margins, the whole more or 
less viscid, rays in 1 series numerous, } inch long, narrow, pappus } inch 
long, scabrid. Achene linear, hispid. 
Hab.—South Island: Nelson ; on the Golden Downs near the head of 
the Aorere River—J. Dall: in compliment to whom as an explorer and 
collector it has been named. 
Plate XXXV., fig. 1, plant 3 nat. size; 2, back view of flower head, 
showing outer form of flower-bracts; 8, inner form of flower-bracts; 4, 
fertile floret ; 5, rayed floret ; 6, pappus hair ; 7, stamens. 
This singular plant approaches the genus Senecio closer than any 
Celmisia hitherto found in New Zealand, especially in the presence of large 
coriaceous leaf-like bracts on the scape. Its habit of growth, however, 
especially in the large radical and rosulate leaves, relate it more to Celmisia. 
It may be necessary if other species with this remarkable double form of 
flower-bracts be discovered that a new genus be constructed for their 
reception, 
Art. XLVIII.—On some Plants new to New Zealand, and Description of anew 
Species. By Jonn Bucuanay, of the Geological Survey Department. 
(Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21st February, 1882.] 
Pieris longifolia, Linn. 
Specimens of this fern have lately been forwarded to the Museum by 
Mr. Lascelles, of Napier, They were collected by him in the Tarawera 
country under circumstances which preclude the possibility of its having 
been introduced. 
This is a fern widely distributed over the globe, having been collected 
in many countries, and named by each collector with a different name. 
Hooker gives for it in his «Species Filicum” eighteen synonyms of different 
authors. 
It may be mentioned that the New Zealand plant has the pinne 
serrated, which may claim for it the position of a variety. 
