Lagenophora.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 257 



or with 1—3 minute linear bracts, slender. Heads Jin.— Jin. in diameter ; involu- 

 cral bracts narrow-linear, acute, with scarious margins. Ray-florets numerous, 

 revolute, white. Achenes compressed ; margins thick, abruptly contracted into 

 a short almost viscid beak. — A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 436 ; Hook. £., Fl. N.Z. i. 

 135 ; Handbk. 137. Calendula pwmila. Forst., Prod. n. 305. Microcalia aus- 

 tralis, A. Rich., PI. N.Z. 231, t. 30. Bellis geum, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



KBEMADEC Islands ; NORTH and SOUTH Islands, from the North Cape to Southland ; 

 STEWART Island ; CHATHAM Islands. Sea-level to 2,800ft. Papataniwhamwlm. Native daisy. 

 Oct. to Jan. 



The leaves are usually pale-green and rather fleshy ; the bracts are frequently erose or almost 

 ciliate. This species often develops strong prostrate leafy branches. 



Var. minima. lin.-2in. high. Leaves very membranous, including the petiole Jm.-lin. 

 long, obovate or suborbicular, gradually narrowed into the slender petiole ; teeth rounded at the 

 apex, with two teeth or lobes on each side, rarely shortly pinnate at base, teeth muorouate. Scapes 

 filiform. Heads Jin.-Jin. in diameter. Achenes convex, shortly beaked, rounded at the margins. 

 NORTH Island : Great Omaha and other places north of the Waitemata, T. K. 



2. L. petiolata, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 125. A smaller and more slender 

 plant than L. Forsteri. Leaves usually radical, spreading, fin.— 2in. long in- 

 cluding the slender petiole, very thin, obovate or suborbicular, obtuse, acutely 

 toothed or crenate, hirsute or with scattered hairs on both surfaces ; teeth 

 minutely apiculate; Scape filiform, strict, 2in.— 6in. long, pubescent or hirsute. 

 Heads Jin.— Jin. in diameter ; involucral scales in about 3 series, linear-acute, 

 with scarious margins. Achenes obovate, slightly falcate, shortly beaked, 

 sparingly hispid above; margins thickened. — Handbk. 137. L. strangulata, 

 Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxii. (1889) 471. 



NORTH Island : Te Aroha Mountain, Adavis. Ruahine Range, Colenso, W. E. Andrew ! 

 Tararua Range. SOUTH Island : frequent in mountain districts, 1,000ft. to 4,000ft. STEWART 

 Island, T. K. Dec, Jan. 



This has been recorded both from the Kermadec and Auckland Islands, but it is to be feared 

 that some error has occurred. The slender curved rather turgid achenes and the spreading sub- 

 orbicular leaves distinguish this from other species. 



3. L. Barker!, n. s. Stems slender, erect, 6in.— 9in. high or more, leafy, 

 the leaves gradually diminishing in size upwards, and the peduncle longer or 

 shorter than the leafy portion of the stem. Leaves erect or ascending, oblong- 

 spathulate or narrow-oblong-spathulate, lin.— IJin. long, scaberulous on both 

 surfaces, acute or obtuse, distantly serrate or crenate-serrate ; teeth apiculate. 

 Head solitary, Jin.— Jin. in diameter ; involucral bracts in about 3 series, 

 hyaline, acute. Disk-florets longer than in either of the preceding. Limb 

 rather deeply 5-lobed ; lobes acute, spreading. Achenes (immature) narrow- 

 lanceolate, compressed, thin, glabrous ; beak short. 



SOUTH Island ; Nelson : Amuri. Canterbury : by the Porter River, 1,800ft. to 3,000ft., Enys 

 and Kirk. 



Distinguished from either of the preceding by the scaberulous leaves, hyaline bracts, and 

 linear compressed shortly- beaked achenes. Named in acknowledgment of S. D. Barker's valued 

 assistance in botanical matters. 



4. L. purpurea, n. s. Stems leafy below, naked above, erect, slender, 

 grooved, 4in.— 6in. high, pubescent or puberulous. Leaves including the petiole 

 liin. long, membranous, ovate, radical and cauline, rather distant, truncate at 



