293 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Celmisia. 



NORTH Island: Tararua Eange, Budden I SOUTH Island: Canterbury: Mount Cook, 

 Dixon! Mount Brewster, fl'aasj .' Otago ; Mount Alta, Jfecior and i3Mctoman / The Bemarkables, 

 Humboldt Mountains, Mount Tyndall, &o., Petrie I 4,500ft. to 6,000ft. 



A very distinct species, of which I have only seen poor specimens. 



34. C. sessiliflora, Hook, f., Handbk. 135. Much branched below. 

 Branches short, stout, with the leaves lin.— IJin. in diameter, forming broad 

 masses 2in.— Sin. high. Leaves excessively crowded, yellowish-grey, hoary or 

 silky above and beneath, :^in.— lin. long, usually shorter and narrower than the 

 scarious silky or villous sheath, y'g^in.— j^in. wide at base, sti-ict, coriaceous, 

 subacute or obtuse, flat above, concave beneath ; margins revolute. Head ter- 

 minal, sessile, usually sunk among the apical leaves, Jin.— 1 in. in diameter; 

 involucral bracts few, subulate-acuminate, scarious, the outer cottony and 

 revolute, the inner glabrate. Rays few, spreading. Achene silky. Pappus 

 scarcely barbed. 



Var. pedunculata. Heads on terminal silky or villous ebraoteate peduncles Jin.-ljin. long. 



SOUTH Island: frequent in mountain districts, 2,500ft. to 6,000ft. STEWART Island: 

 summit of Mount Anglem, T. K. Dec, Jan. 



In all probability the pedunculate form is not uncommon, although I have only once met with 

 it. Possibly the peduncle may not be developed until after the florets have withered. The Stewart 

 Island plant is identified in the absence of flowers, and may be different. 



35. C. argentea, n. s. Habit of C. sessiliflora, but more slender, branches 



Jin.— Jin. in diameter, erect, forming small patches 2in.— 5in. high. Leaves 



densely imbricating all round the stem, erect, y^.i^ __^iji long, shorter and 



narrower than the silky scarious sheath, subulate, subacute or acute, margins 



involute, glabrate or glabrous, silvery or shining on both surfaces. Head 



sessile, fin.— Jin. in diameter, deeply sunk among the apical leaves ; involucral 



bracts few, linear-acuminate, glabrate or ciliate. Rays few, short. Achenes 



pubescent. — C. sessiliflora, var. minor, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xv. (1882) 359. 



SOUTH Island: Maungatua, Southland, Pelrie I STEWART Island: Mount Anglem; 

 Rakiahua, Smith's Lookout, T. K. 500ft. to 3,300ft. Dec, Jan. 



I formerly agreed with Mr. Petrie in considering this to be a variety of C. sessiliflora, but an 

 examination of recent specimens grown under varying conditions has convinced me of its distinct- 

 ness. It differs essentially in the very short silvery involute leaves, fewer bracts, much shorter 

 rays, and especially in the shorter achenes. 



36. C. bellidioides, Hook. /., Handbk. 135. Rootstock much branched. 

 Branches usually slender, creeping. Leaves spreading, usually crowded, linear- 

 oblong or linear-spathulate, rounded at the apex, Jin.— ^-in. long, Jin.— Jin. 

 broad, narrowed into a broad petiole, cottony on the inner surface, entire or 

 obscurely toothed, green, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Scapes slender, terminal, 

 2in.-5in. high, clothed with numerous leafy bracts. Head fin. in diameter; 

 involucral bracts green or purple, acute or subacute, linear-lanceolate. Ravs 

 numerous, short. Corolla-tube pilose. Achene silky. 



SOUTH Island : Nelson : Tarndale, Sinclair I Mount Peel, Cheeseman. Amuri, T. E. 



Canterbury: Mount Torlesse, Haast I Bealey, Arthur's, Pass, &o., Enys and Kirk. Macaulay and 



Hopkins Rivers, &c., flaasi! / Ashburton Mountain, Po«s / Westland, CocJiaj/ne .' Otago : Mount 

 Ida, above Arrowtown, Mount Tyndall, Petrie I 2,500ft. to 5,500ft. Dec, Jan. 



Usually on watery shingle. In sheltered places luxuriant shoots are developed with leaves 

 lin. long, the elongated petioles being clothed with long tomentum. 



