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a branchlet of this species might well he ta.ken for a small pine 

 cone, or for an miusually hard and membranous unopened 

 catkin. Unfortunately, the leaves have not hitherto received 

 any close examination, and so no account of their microscopic 

 structure can be given. The interstices between the bases of 

 the leaves are closely packed with felted hairs. On the outer 

 surfaces the tips of the hairs are brown-red ; elsewhere they 

 are white. 



Genus Gasfiima. 



Shrubs. Leaves small, entire, often rusty-coloured below. Heads terminal, 

 in corymbs or panicles. Florets tubular. Acbenes papillose. Pappus-hairs in 

 1-4-rows, slightly thickened at the tips. (Name in honour of M. Cassini, ;i 

 French botanist). .5 sp. 



Cassinia leptophylla {The Namm-leaved Gassinia). 



Stems .5 ft. -12 ft. high. Branches and under-surfaces of leaves clothed with 

 white tomentum. Leave yV in.-j\in. long, obtuse, margins recurved. Heads in 

 corvmbs, i in.-:i in. long. Florets 6-10. Both islands. Colonists' name 

 Gottonicood, 'SLxon name TauJimtt. 



Cassinia Vauvilliepsii {Vauvilliers' Gassmia). 



Stems '2 ft. -8 ft. high. Branches covered with viscid yellowish tomentum. 

 Leaves i in. -i in. long, coriaceous, obtuse, glutinous. Heads in round corymbs 

 iin. long. Both islands. 



Cassina fulvida {The Yellow Gassinia). 

 Stems '2 ft. -.5 ft. high, with slightly viscid yellow tomentum. Leaves 

 J in. -J in. long, sessile, obtuse, glutinous above, clothed with yellow tomentum. 

 Heads g- in. -J in. long, in corymbs. Florets 6-10. Scales among the florets few 

 or 0. Both islands. Fl. Sept. -March. 



Genus Grasped la. 



Erect, Icafv, perennial herbs, with globose, woolly heads. Leaves radical and 

 alternate. Florets 5-12, tubular, .5-toothed, intermixed with transparent scales. 

 Achene silk)', oblong. Anthers 2-tailed. Pappus of 1 row of soft feathery hairs. 

 (Name from the Greek, signifying a fringe, in allusion to the white hairs upon 

 the margins of the leaves). 1 sp. 



Craspedia uniflora {The Onc-flowcrcd Graspedia). 



Stem 4 in. -20 m. high. Leaves chiefly radical, 1 in. -8 in. long, fringed with 

 white hairs. Head rounded hke a ball, or disk-shaped, I in. -2 in. across. 

 Florets yellow or white. The whole plant is usually clothed with a white, woollx-, 

 or cottony tomentum, but is sometimes glabrous. Both islands. Fl. Dec- 

 :\Iarch. Several species seem to be included under this name. 



