Erigeron.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 293 



37. C. glandulosa, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 124. Solitary or tufted. 



Leaves few^ membranous, Jin.— lin. long, ovate or oblong-spathulate, narrowed 



into a short winged petiole with a slightly expanded base, acute or apiculate, 



with 2—4 acute teeth on each side, glabrate or clothed with minute glandular 



pubescence. Scape slender, glandular-pubescent, lin.— 5in. high, with few 



linear-acuminate bracts. Head Jin.— fin. in diameter; involucral bracts in 



2 series, linear-subulate, glabrate and ciliate or cottony. Rays few or many, 



broad. Achene pubescent or silky. — Handbk. 136. C. membranacea, Col. in 



Trans. N.Z.I, xxii. (1889) 470. 



NORTH Island : Tongariro, Colenso I Ngaurahoe and Euapehu, T. K. Taupo, G. Mair I 

 Hill I SOUTH Island: Mount Arthur, Spencer! Canterbury and Westland : Arthur's Pass, &o., 

 Enys and Kirk. Mount Cook, &o., Haast ! Otago : near Mount Aspiring, &o,, Petrie ! 1,500ft. to 

 4,000£t. Dec, Jan. 



38. C. vernicosa, Hook. /., Fl. Antarc. i.' 34, t. 26, 27. Densely tufted, 

 glabrous in all its parts, shining. Leaves very numerous, rosulate, sessile, 

 lin.— 4in. long, linear, obtuse, Jin.— |in. broad, rigid, thick and coriaceous, flat 

 or convex above, slightly expanded at the base, sometimes serrulate towards the 

 apex ; midrib stout and obvious beneath. Scapes usually numerous, flexuous, 

 lin.— 8in. high, green or purple, clothed with rather broad subimbricating bracts. 

 Heads lin.— 1 Jin. in diameter ; involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, often ciliate. 

 Rays white, spreading. Disk-florets purple. Corolla-tube pilose. Achene 

 hispid. — Handbk. 136. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands : sea-level to l,200£t. ; abundant. Nov., Deo. 

 The expanded base of the leaf is usually 3-ribbed, but never forms a membranous sheath. 



39. C. Chapmani, T. Kirk in Gard. Chron. ser. HI. ix. (1891) 731. 

 Solitary or tufted. Leaves sessile, rosulate, 3in.— Sin, long, Jin.— fin. broad, 

 broadly lanceolate, narrowed into a short broad sheathing-base, obtuse or 

 subacute, serrate, scarcely coriaceous, glabrous above and longitudinally 

 furrowed, pubescent or sparsely tomentose beneath, longitudinal veins pro- 

 minent below. Scapes 6in.— lOia. high, sparingly tomentose ; bracts rather 

 numerous, linear, the lower obtuse, the upper acuminate. Head 1 Jin.— 2in. in 

 diameter or more ; involucral bracts with a distinct midrib, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, glabrate or sparsely cottony. Rays spreading. Disk-florets purple. 

 Corolla-tube pilose. Achenes densely hispid. — C. Campbellensis , Chapman in 

 Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii. 407. 



CAMPBELL Island : Perseverance Harbour, Chapman and Kirk. 



The leaves are sessile by a broad clasping base and destitute o£ a membranous sheath. 



• ERIGERON, Linn. 



Eeceptacle flat or convex. Involucral bracts numerous, narrow, nearly equal, 

 2-3-seriate. Eay-florets numerous, female, in 2 or more rows, all ligulate, narrow, 

 or the inner short and filiform. Disk-florets hermaphrodite, tubular. Anthers obtuse 

 below. Style-arms narrow, tips lanceolate, papillose outside. Achenes flattened, 

 usually 2-nerved, pubescent. Pappus equal or unequal. Herbs, with radical and 



