398 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Gnaphalium. 



NORTH Island : Eimutaka Eange, T. K. SOUTH Island : west coast of Nelson, T. K. 

 Westland, T. E. Canterbury : " alpine," J. B. Armstrong. Otago and Southland : not unfrequent. 

 STEWART Island, T. E. Sea-level to 2,000£t. Nov., Deo. 



Best distinguished from the preceding by the bracteate peduncles, tomentose outer bracts of 

 the involucre, and the shorter leaves, which are never 3-nerved beneath. The corymbs are some- 

 times reduced to a single head. 



3. G. Keriense, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 454. Suffrutescent stems pro- 

 strate or decumbent, 3in.— 9in. long or high. Leaves mostly close-set^ spread- 

 ing, Jin.— 2Jin. long, g'^in.— ^in. broad, narrow -linear, oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblong-spathulate, acute or almost acuminate, glabrate or glabrous above, white 

 beneath with the midrib prominent, sessile. Heads Jin. in diameter, in many- 

 flowered terminal corymbs. Peduncles bracteate or leafy; pedicels slender, 

 cottony. Involucral bracts numerous, clawed, radiating, outer cobwebby at base. 

 Achenes minute, glabrous, shorter than the pappus-hairs. — Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. 

 i. 138; Handbk. 153. G. Novae-Zelandiae, Sch. Bipont in Bot. Zeit. iii. 

 (1845) 176. Helichrysum micranthum, A. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 189. 



Var. linlfolia, Hook, f., Handbk. 153. Stems decumbent or erect. Leaves Jin.-lin. long, 

 ^in.-^in. broad, acute, sometimes cottony above ; margins slightly revolute. Peduncles usually 

 ebracteate ; pedicels capillary. — Q. suhrigidum, Ool. in Trans. N.Z.I, xvii. 244. 



NORTH Island : frequent by the margins of streams and on wet cliffs from Mangonui to 

 Cook Strait. SOUTH Island : Nelson, Travers. Dusky Bay, Lyall. Var. UnifoUa : NORTH 

 Island : usually on dry banks or cliffs ; local. Sea-level to 1,800ft. 



The leaves of this species are extremely variable in size, although fairly constant in shape. 



4. G. luteo-album, L., Sp. PL 851. Annual or biennial. Stems 

 simple or branched from the base, and with the leaves densely clothed with 

 white cottony tomentum, 8in.— 18in. high. Lower leaves petiolate, narrow- 

 linear or oblong-spathulate, the upper linear or lanceolate, sessile. Heads 

 ^in.-Jin. long, fascicled or corymbose, dusky-brown or yellowish ; involucre 

 nearly globose ; bracts numerous, scarious, shining ; tips incurved, obtuse. 

 Female florets very numerous. Disk-fiorets few. Achene finely punctulate. — ■ 

 A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 431 ; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 139 ; Handbk. 154. 



Var. compactum. Branched from the base. Branches filiform, cottony, prostrate or sub. 

 erect, lin.-Sin. long. Leaves Jin.-Jin. long, oblong or oblong-spathulate, cottony on both surfaces- 

 Heads 1-4 in terminal fascicles ; involucral bracts fewer. Lake Lyndon, Enys and Eirk. 



Common from the KERMADBC Islands and the North Gape to STEWART Island and the 

 AUCKLAND Islands. Sea-level to 3,000ft. Deo. to March. 



In all temperate and warm countries. 



* G. purpureum, L., Sp. PL 584. Annual or biennial. Stems simple or 

 branched from the base, 6in.-9in. high, white with silvery wool. Leaves oblong- 

 spathulate, sessile or narrowed into a broad petiole, obtuse or the upper rarely 

 linear, clothed on both surfaces with white tomentum or green above. Heads in 

 dense sessile clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, and forming a leafy spike at 

 the apex of the stem ; involucral bracts linear-oblong, woolly but scarious, pale- 

 brown, the inner often purplish. Female florets very numerous. Disk-florets 2 or 3. 

 Pappus-hairs united in a ring at the base. 



NORTH Island : naturalised in several localities from the North Cape to the Auckland 

 Isthmus. Wellington: on ballast; rare. Purple cudweed. Jan. to March. North America. 

 Doubtless introduced from Australia, where it is abundantly naturalised. 



