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membranous ; sca2)es one-flowered, 6-8 inches high, clothed with loose 

 white tomentum, rather stout. Bracts 4-6, very narrow-linear, 1 inch long, 

 acute, convex, with a long sheath covered with matted cottony hairs. 

 Heads 1-1^ inch diameter. Involucral scales numerous, in 2-3 rows, -^-f 

 inch long, very narrow-linear, densely woolly, with glabrous subulate tips. 

 Ray-JJorets numerous, 1 inch long, narrow, white. Disc yellow, glabrous. 

 Pappus ^ inch long. Achenes hispidulous. 



Hab. — Canterbury Provincial District, 2,500-4,000 feet, forming broad 

 patches among grass. — J.B.A., first collected in 1866. In most colonial 

 herbariums two plants are confounded under Hooker's name of C. monroi, 

 the above and the true C. monroi, which has much larger leaves deeply fur- 

 rowed in parallel lines, and larger flowers with glabrous achenes, and fewer 

 stouter bracts. 



Brachycome simplicifolia, n.sp. 



A small, tufted, branching, perennial herb, 3-4 inches high, stout and 

 leafy. Radical leaves 2-3 inches long, linear-spatliulate or linear, ob- 

 scurely three-nerved, obtuse, with broad membranous sheathing petioles 

 and revolute margins ; quite entire, except the sheaths which are somewhat 

 shaggy, glandular-pubescent, or glabrous. Scapes 1-3 inches high, pubes- 

 cent, 1-2-flowered, striated or channelled. Cauline leaves or bracts few, 

 1 inch long, hnear-spathulate, obtuse, sub-amplexicaul, glandular-pubescent, 

 more distinctly nerved than the leaves. Heads \ an inch in diameter. In- 

 volucral scales 12-16, in one series, or with a second outer series of 2-3 

 scales only, linear-lanceolate, or oblong, acute, distinctly three-nerved, 

 coriaceous, appressed, with purplish membranous margins. Ray-florets 

 short, oblong, obtuse, few or absent, white. Disc-florets tubular, 3-5 

 toothed. Pappus entirely absent. Achene compressed, yL inch long, 

 glandular-pubescent, thickened at the tip. Recepitacle very narrow, con- 

 vex, papillose. 



Hab. — Nelson Provincial District, Mr. C. W. Jennings. Marlborough 

 Provincial District (1869).— J.B.^. 



Erechtites pumila, J.B.A. 



A small slender herb 2-4 inches high, simple or sparingly branched, 

 annual. Radical leaves few, ^^ inch long, petiolate, ciliate, puberulous or 

 glabrous, spathulate or oblong, obtuse, coarsely toothed or lobulate or 

 entire. Veins obsolete. Scape extreraely slender, hairy or scabrid, with a 

 single terminal head. Bracts 4-6, linear, sessile, sub-amplexicaul, hairy, 

 obtuse or acute, lobulate or entire, the upper two with dark brown dilated 

 tips. Heads ^ inch long, ^ inch wide. Livolucral scales 8-10, linear, 

 dehcately membranous, green with white margins, nearly glabrous ; some 

 with acute, crimson points, others with blackish dilated tips, in one series, 



