358 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Brachycome. 



base, rounded at the apex, serrate or crenate-serrate, teeth apiculate, puhescent 

 on both surfaces, ciliate, purple beneath. Heads Jin.— Jin. in diameter ; invo- 

 lucral bracts in about 3 rows, linear, acute, with scarious margins, keeled, mid- 

 rib distinct, often tipped with purple. Achenes oblanceolate, compressed, with 

 a rather long beak and thin margins. 



SOUTH Island : Catlin's River, T. K. 



Best distinguished by the long beaks and thin margins of the achenes. The leaves are brown 

 above and usually purple beneath. 



5. L. pinnatifida, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 126. Hirsute or pilose in all its 



parts. Leaves lin.— 4in. long, all radical, narrow-oblong-obovate or oblong- 



spathulate, obtuse, deeply crenate-lobed or pinnatifid, ciliate ; petiole short. 



Scape slender, 3in.— lOin. high. Heads Jin.— ^in. in diameter; involucral bracts 



linear, acute ; midrib not prominent. Achenes (immature) compressed, straight, 



dimidiate ; margin thin, slightly viscid. — Handbk. 137. 



NOBTH Island : Auckland, Sinclair. East Cape, Colenso. SOUTH iRland : Nelson : Wairau 

 Valley, &c., T. E., Cheeseman. Marlborough, Rough! Canterbury, Siiiclair and Haast ! Otago, 

 Buchanan I Lindsay, Petric! Dec, Jan. 



Easily recognised by the soft hirsute leaves and dimidiate achenes. 



6. L. lanata, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 126. Solitary or tufted. Root-fibres 

 stout, fleshy. Leaves all radical, hirsute or tomentose, rather fleshy, lin.— IJin. 

 long including the petiole, obovate-spathulate or oblong, coarsely crenate-den- 

 tate, teeth rarely acute, obtuse at the apex, narrowed into a very short petiole. 

 Scapes 2in.— 6in. long, with 1 or 2 minute bracts, glabrous. Heads Jin.— |^in. 

 in diameter ; involucral bracts linear, obtuse or subacute, purple, with a very 

 narrow scarious margin. Achenes compressed, slightly oblique, abruptly nar- 

 rowed into a slender beak, glabrous or rarely papillose at the neck. — Hook, f., 

 Fl. N.Z. i. 126 ; Handbk. 137. Bellis pilosa, Banks and Sol. MS. 



NOETH Island ; on dry clay hills from near Mangonui to the Auckland Isthmus, but rare 

 and local. SOUTH Island : Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks and Sol. ! 



* L. emphysopns, Hook. /., Fl. Tasm. i. 189. Tufted or solitary. Root of 

 stout fleshy fibres. Leaves all radical, ljin.-3in. long, tufted, hirsute or pubescent, 

 oblong or narrow-obovate, obtuse, narrowed at the base into a short broad petiole, 

 obscurely toothed or crenate. Scapes stout, strict, hirsute, exceeding the leaves, 

 constricted immediately beneath the head, naked or with 1 rarely 2 short bracts. 

 Heads less than Jin. in diameter ; involucral bracts in 2 series, broadly oblong, with 

 narrow scarious margins, rounded at the tips. Eay-florets scarcely exceeding the 

 involucral scales, tubular or very shortly ligulate. Achenes of the disk abortive ; of 

 the ray compressed, glabrous, narrowed at both ends ; beak very short. 



NOBTH Island: naturalised, hills near Paikakariki and Wellington. SOUTH Island: 

 Taylor's Mistake, Banks Peninsula. Jan. to April. Australia. 



3. BRACHYCOME, Cass. 



Involucre hemispherical or nearly so ; bracts 1- or 2-seriate, linear-oblong, 



with scarious margins. Receptacle convex or conical, papillose ; scales 0. 



Ray-florets in 1 series, female, ligulate, revolute, short. Disk-florets numerous, 



tubular; limb 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse below. Style-arms with lanceolate 



