Colenso. — On the Botany of New Zealand. 333 



however that may be, one thing is certain, that G. ciliare (of which Sir J. 

 D. Hooker has given a drawing and dissections in his Flora Tasmania) is 

 very distant from this species, G. erythrocaulon . 



Oedee XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 

 Genus 10. Craspedia, Forster. 

 Craspedia viscosa, sp. nov. 



Plant a simple perennial herb, bearing a single slender unbranched 

 scape ; whole plant viscid. Leaves, 4-6 at base, fiat, spreading, sub-spathu- 

 late, entire, sessile, lamina extending to scape, membranous, glabrous with 

 minute raised viscid dots, very slightly ciliate with white floccose hairs, 

 apiculate, olive-green, trinerved ; veinlets anastomosing. Scape erect, 8-16 

 inches high, bearing 10-12 leaf-like ovate-acuminate sessile bracts, alternate 

 at about equal distances, lowest the largest, H inches long, and gradually 

 decreasing in size upwards. Compound head of floweis broadly sub-conical, 

 with hairs as long as (or longer than) florets, ^-f inch diameter, upright, 

 greyish ; corollas slender, usually 3 in a head, each 8 lines long, tube 

 greenish, dilated at base, petals tinged with red ; involucral scales ovate, 

 acute, 1-nerved, scarious at edges, outermost thickly muricated with minute 

 raised dots, and pubescent in the centre ; pappus very numerous, main 

 stems of plumose pappus very broad at their bases ; achene linear-ovate, 

 shining, strigillose, slightly subangular, with a thickened areole at base 

 having a hollow central depression. 



Hab. Open spots, and among Leptospermum shrubs, dry hills near 

 Matamau (S.), Waipawa County, 1881-1883 : W.C. 



Obs. — This species differs in habit from the two more showy species 

 (N.Z.) already described, in not bearing its compound head of florets glo- 

 bular like a ball ; the head is always upright, even after flowering, and 

 confined within its involucral scales. 



Genus 14. Gnaphalium, Linn. 

 Gnaphalium parviflorum, sp. nov. 



Plant a slender perennial herb, prostrate, spreading, sub-ascending, much 

 branched, rooting at joints ; forming dense little beds or cushions where 

 undisturbed. Ultimate branchlets filiform, 6-9 inches long, very cottony ; 

 leaves sub-imbricate above and distant on stems below, 3-4 lines long, oval, 

 apiculate with a short stout coloured mucro, entire, sessile, decurrent, very 

 nearly wholly embracing the stem, alternate, regular, white and densely 

 cottony below, very slightly so above, upper surface bright green, floccosely 

 ciliated with white tomentum, midrib prominent and stout below. Heads 

 of floicers few, solitary, 2£ lines broad on a filiform peduncle 2 inches long, 

 terminal on branchlets, bearing 1-2 small bracts ; involucral scales numerous, 

 all green with golden coloured and shining scarious edges and tips,. obscurely 



