Calendula.] xxxix. oompositae. 351 



terminal corymb ; involucral bracts 8, in 1 series, shorter than the florets, 

 coriaceous, oblong, with broad membranous margins, obtuse, rigid. Receptacle 

 alveolate. Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular ; limb campanulate, deeply- 

 divided into 5 narrow revolute lobes. Anthers tailless. Achene shortly stipi- 

 tate, clavate, narrowed at the apex, ribbed, glabrous. Pappus-hairs in 2 series, 

 rigid, spreading, scaberulous. — Traversia baccharoides , Hook, f., Handbk. 164 ; 

 Hook., le. PI. t. 1002. 



SOUTH Island : mountains of Marlborough and Nelpon ; Upper Awatere ; Kaikoura Range ; 

 valley o£ the Clarence ; Rotoiti, &o. ; Wairau Gorge ; Hurunui Mountains ; Waiau-ua Valley ; 

 Spencer Mountains ; Lake Guyon ; Discovery Peaks, &c. Canterbury : Upper Wairaakariri, &o. 



The leaves and involucres are more or less glutinous. Traversia is rightly referred to Senecio 

 by the authors of the " Genera Plantarum." It is to be regretted tjiat the old specifio name has 

 been applied to another species. 



33. S. cassinioides, Hook. /., Handbk. 163. An erect shrub, usually 

 branched from the base, 2ft.— 10ft. high. Branches stout, with brown deciduous 

 papery bark hanging in long flakes, excessively numerous, short, tomentose. 

 Leaves ^in.— ^in. long, laxly imbricating, linear-oblong, subacute or obtuse, 

 clpthed beneath with appressed whitish-yellow tomentum. Heads solitary, ter- 

 minal, sessile, J^in. long, ovoid, with a few bracteoles at the base; involucral 

 bracts about 8, 2-seriate, coriaceous, tomentose, the inner broadly oblong, with 

 wide scarious margins. Receptacle alveolate, but not toothed. Florets about 

 10. Rays 4, short, broad, revolute. Disk-florets with a shortly campanulate 

 5-cleft limb. Anthers with minute tails. Achene shortly stipitate, expanded 

 upwards, subulate, grooved, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island : in mountain di'striots from Marlborough and Nelson to Mount Earnslaw, 

 Otago. 2,000ft. to 4,500ft. Jan., Feb. 



This singular plant has the habit of Cassirda VauvilUersii, but with crowded branehlets and 

 softer tomentum. 



• CALENDULA, Linn. 



Heads broad ; involucre disk-shaped ; involucral bracts 1-2-seriate, uarro^^, 

 imbricate. Outer florets 2-3-seriate, female, fertile, ligulate ; rays erect or spreading, 

 entire or 8-toothed. Disk-florets sterile, tubular ; mouth 5-toothed ; style with an 

 epigynous disk at base, conical ; apex papillose, conical or shortly bidentate. Anthers 

 shortly tailed. Aohenes unequally incurved, more or less muricate or tubereulate, 

 especially at the back, or winged or compressed. Pappus 0. Herbs, often glandular- 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire or sinuate. Heads solitary on terminal 

 peduncles. 



* C. offleinalis, L., Sp. PL 921. Erect or spreading, 1ft. high, more or less 

 branched from the base, pubescent or glandular-pubescent. Lower leaves oblong- 

 spathulate, upper oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, somewhat amplexicaul. 

 Heads on terminal peduncles with acute bracts ; involucral bracts in 2 series, linear, 

 acuminate, glandular-pubescent. Bays 2-3-seriate, greatly exceeding the involucre, 

 orange-coloured. Achenes all curved, boat-shaped, incurved, smooth on the inner 

 surface, muricate at the back. 



Not unfrequent by roadsides, waste places, sites of old garderis, &c., but rarely permanent. 

 Garden marigold. Feb. to April. South Europe. 



