340 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Senecio. 



with a long cylindric mouth and extremely short tube. Achenes slender, slightly 

 contracted at the neck, deeply ribbed, silky or hispid. Pappus-hairs rigid, 

 unequal. — Handbk. 160. 



Var. scorzoneroides. Glandular or glandular-pubescent. Stems more robust and leafy than 

 the typical form. Radical and cauline leaves shorter and broader, fewer, 2in.-9in. long, Jin.-|in. 

 broad, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved. Heads larger. Bays broader, salmon-coloured. 

 S. ? scorzoneroides. Hook, f., PI. N.Z. i. 146. 



SOUTH Island: mountain-valleys from Nelson and Marlborough to Southland. Descends to 

 sea-level on Stewart Island. Ascends to 5,000ft. above the Wairau Gorge. Jan., Feb. 



* S. vulgaris, L., Sp. PI. 867. Annual, 3in.-12in. high, branched from the 

 base, succulent, eglandular. Leaves usually glabrous, oblong, obtuse, half amplexi- 

 caul, pinnatifid, acutely and unequally toothed. Heads in clustered cymes, small, 

 pedicellate, drooping ; involucre oblong-conical, conical in fruic ; outer involucral 

 bracts ovate-subulate ; tips black. Eays 0. Achene ribbed, silky. 



Naturalised throughout the colony. Sea-level to 3,000ft. Groundsel. Europe. 



* S. sylvaticus, L., Sp. PI. 868. Annual, erect, 1ft. -3ft. high, much branched 

 above, slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves lin.-3in. long, downy, deeply and 

 irregularly pinnatifid. Heads numerous, erect or spreading. Pedicels slender. 

 Involucre cylindric ; outer involucral bracts very few or 0. Eays very short, revolute. 

 Achene faintly ribbed, silky. — S. areolatus, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xsvi. (1893) 317. 



Naturalised from the North Cape to Southland. Hogweed. Jan. to April. Europe. 



* S. mikanioides, Otto ex Walp. in Otto and Dietrich Allg. Oartenz xiii. (1845) 

 42. Glabrous in all its parts, rarely suffruticose. Stems 5ft. -15ft. long, flexuous, 

 scandent. Leaves 2in.-3in. broad, palmate, truncate or deeply cordate at the base, 

 3-7-lobed ; lobes acute ; petiole lin.-3in. long, sheathing at the base. Heads in 

 crowded terminal corymbs or panicles. Pedicels slender, minutely bracteolate. Invo- 

 lucre turbinate; bracts oblong- lanceolate, acute; margins scarious. Eeceptacle 

 narrow, alveolate. Florets 7-9. Eays 0. Achenes oblong, faintly ribbed, glabrous. 



NORTH Island: naturalised in many places from Mangonui to Wellington. Climbing 

 groundsel. June to Oct. South Africa. 



* S. Jacobaea, L., Sp. PI. 870. Perennial, erect, glabrous glabrate or 

 rarely cottony. Stems 2ft.-4ft. high, furrowed, leafy. Lower leaves petioled, 2in.- 

 6in. long ; upper stem leaves sessile, clasping, pinnatifid or irregularly 2-pinnatifid, 

 lobed or toothed. Heads fin. in diameter, numerous, forming a dense or rarely 

 spreading corymb ; involucre campanulate ; bracts oblong, acuminate, outer few, 

 small, subulate. Eays spreading. Achenes of the ray angled, glabrous ; achenes of 

 the disk subterete, hairy. — S. dimorphocarpos, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvi. (1893) 316 ! 



NORTH Island : naturalised. East Gape, Bishop Williams I Kaweka Range, Sturm (Colenso!)- 

 SOUTH Island : between Eorest Gap and Winton, extending for miles, T. K. Tapanui district, 

 Petrie I Ragwort. Feb. to April. Europe. 



* S. aquaticus, Hill, Veg. Syst. ii. 120. Biennial, erect, glabrous or gla- 

 brate, rarely cottony, lft.-2ffc. high. Eadical leaves petioled, entire, crenate or 

 variously lobed or divided, oblong-ovate, narrowed towards the base ; caulme leaves 

 lyrately pinnatifid, segments oblong or hnear, entire or toothed. Heads in a lax 

 spreading corymb ; involucre campanulate ; bracts ovate-lanceolate. Eays long, 

 spreading. Achenes all ribbed, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island : naturalised in the valley of the Buller, Rev. F. H. Spencer I Feb. to March. 

 Europe. 



