HypochaeriS.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 359 



base or entire. Peduncles grooved, bristly ; buds erect. Heads campanulate, Jin. in 

 diameter ; involucral bracts erect, clothed with simple rigid bristles, narrow-linear, 

 acute, with a few smaller spreading at the base, never enclosing the achene. Achenes 

 all with slender beaks. Pappus partly enclosed by the involucre. 



NORTH Island : Remuera, T. K. (1865), Cheeseman. Jan., Feb. Europe. 



] . C. Novae-Zelandiae, Hook. /., Handbk. 164. A glabrous or toraen- 

 tose scapigerous herb, 2in.— lOin. high. Root stout and fleshy. Leaves usually 

 forming a dense rosette, 2in.— 6in. long, linear ohlong-obovate, narrowed at the 

 base or shortly petiolate, unequally pinnatifid or lobed ; lobes usually toothed, 

 the terminal segment very large and usually rounded. Scape slender, exceed- 

 ing the leaves, simple or with a solitary branch, glabrous or sparingly clothed 

 with black glandular hairs. Involucral bracts in 3-3 series, obtuse, often with 

 black tips. Achene glabrous, short, compressed, ribbed. — Lindsay, Contrib. 

 N.Z. Bot. 54, t. 3. Hieracium fragile, Banks and Sol. MSS. and Icon. 



SOUTH Island : Marlborough : Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks and Sol. I The Brothers rocks, 

 Bohson I Nelson: Wairau Valley, Cheeseman. Clarence Valley, T. K. More frequent in the 

 Canterbury and Otagd Districts. Descends nearly to sea-level ; ascends to fully 3,000ft. Jan., Feb. 



The scape is frequently clothed with black hairs similar to those on the involucre.. 



* HYPOCHAERIS, Linn. 



Involucral bracts herbaceous, in several series, imbricating, often elongating 

 after flowering. Eeceptacle with a few linear scales amongst the florets. Florets 

 numerous, all ligulate. Achenes usually striate, scabrous, all beaked, or sometimes 

 the outer not beaked. Pappus-hairs in 2 rows, the inner long and plumose, the 

 outer of short stiff bristles, sometimes 0. Annual or perennial herbs, with radical 

 leaves and simple or branched scapes. 

 Leaves glabrous. Only the inner achenes beaked . . . . . . ..' H. glabra. 



Leaves hispid. All the achenes beaked . . . . . . . . . . * H. radicata. 



*- H. glabra, L., Sp. PL 810. Annual. Leaves forming a rosette, glabrous or 

 glabrate, lin.-4in. long, narrow oblong-obovate, sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, obtuse. 

 Scapes several, 2in.-12in. long, the primary simple, the lateral branched, naked or 

 with 1 or 2 bracteoles. Heads ^in.-fin. long ; involucres equalling the flowers ; 

 bracts few, with a strong midrib, very unequal, acute. Achenes subulate, terete, 

 grooved, scabrous, the inner with a slender beak, which is absent in the outer. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: naturalised throughout. Jan., Feb. Europe. 



* H. radicata, L., Sp. PL 810. Perennial. Leaves hispid on both surfaces, 

 narrow oblong-obovate, oin.-lOin. long, sinuate- or runcinate-pinnatifid, usually obtuse. 

 Scapes lft.-2ft. high, much branched, naked or nearly so. Peduncles erect, slightly 

 thickened above. Heads lin.-l^in. in diameter, yellow; involucre subcyhndric, 

 shorter than the florets ; bracts unequal, glabrous or ciliate. Achenes all beaked, 

 muricate. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: naturalised throughout the colony. STEWART Island; 

 CHATHAM Islands. Cat's-ear. Dee. to March. Europe. 



•LEONTODON, Linn. 



Involucral bracts in several series, subimbricate ; outer smaller. Eeceptacle 

 flat, naked. Florets all ligulate. Style-arms pilose. Anther-cells tailless. Achenes 

 terete, grooved, shortly beaked, slightly rugose. Pappus-hairs rigid, in 1 or 2 series ; 



