Celmisia .] xxxix. coimosiTiE. 135 
Abundant throughout the islands, ascending to 5500 ft., and varying excessively in stature, 
robustness, length, and breadth of leaves, one or many (8-12) slender or robust scapes, and 
large or small, cottony or glabrate heads. This is the commonest Celmisia in the islands, 
and is also found on the Australian and Tasmanian alps and Blue Mountains. Some states 
almost pass into C. Munroi. 
19 . C. laricifolia, HooJc. f. FI. N. Z. ii. 331 . A small species, with 
prostrate rhizomes, densely leafy for 2-3 inches. Leaves densely crowded, 
5-1 in. long, by ^ broad, acerose, pungent, somewhat recurved, glabrous 
above, silvery or cottony below ; margins recurved. Scapes very slender, 2-4 
in. long, glabrate ; bracts few, setiform. Head 5 in. diam. ; involucral scales . 
few, linear-subulate, erect, cottony; florets few. Acliene hispid. 
Middle Island : Gordon’s Nob and other Nelson mountains, alt. 4000 ft., Munro, Sin- 
clair ; summit of Mount Torlesse, alt. 4500-6000 ft., Haast. 
20. C. Heetori, Hook, f., n. sp. A densely tufted species, forming ex- 
tensive patches. Leaves densely imbricate, spreading, 5— f in. long, i- 5 broad, 
linear- or spathulate-oblong, obtuse, silky on both surfaces ; margins recurved ; 
sheaths short, coriaceous, shining, glabrous, cottony at the margins. Scape 
very robust, 4-5 in. long, villous and silky ; bracts many, linear. Head 
large for the plant, 1 in. diam. ; involucral scales linear-subulate, few, ob- 
tuse, pubescent ; rays 5 in., long, rather broad; pappus jr in. long. Achene 
silky. 
Middle Island : Otago, Mount Brewster, alt. 5-6000 ft.. Hector and Buchanan. A 
very pretty and distiuct little species, remarkable for the small foliage aud large head. 
21. C. sessiliflora, Hook. /., n. sp. A small, robust, densely tufted, 
greenish-grey species, 2-3 in. high. Leaves most numerous and densely 
tufted, 5—4 in. long, T ' T in. broad, strict, narrow-linear, obtuse, thick, convex 
at the back, equally hoary or silky on both surfaces ; sheath as long - and 
rather broader than the blade, membranous, with villous margins. Head ■§ in. 
diam., sunk amongst the leaves ; involucral scales few, slender, subulate; florets 
few ; rays 5 in. long ; pappus white or reddish, \ in. long. Achene silky. 
Middle Island: Upper Wairau, etc., 4000 ft., Sinclair; Discovery Peaks, 5800 ft., 
Travers ; grassy flats, Mount Cook and Macaulay river, 4000 ft., Haast ; Mount Brewster, 
and elsewhere in the lake district, 3-5000 ft.. Hector and Buchanan. 
22. C. bellidioides, Hook./., n. sp. A small glabrous species. Rhi- 
zome creeping, branched, often stout and woody. Leaves spreading, linear- 
oblong, 5—5- in. long, 5—5- broad, linear-oblong or linear-spathulate, rounded 
at the tip, green on both surfaces ; margin sometimes obscurely toothed, rather 
coriaceous, veinless, narrowed into short, rather cottony petioles. Scape 
slender, 1-2 in.. high; bracts many, leafy, narrow. Head i in. diam.; invo- 
lucral scales few, green, often purple-margined, broadly linear ; rays many, 
1 -jin. long; pappus | in. long ; corolla-tube pilose. Achene villous or silky. . 
Middle Island : Tarndale mountains, in loose shingle, alt. 5000 ft., Sinclair; fissures 
of rocks. Mount Torlesse, Macaulay and Hopkins rivers, Lake Hawai, etc., alt, 3-6000 ft., 
Haast. 
23 . C. glandulosa, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 124 . A small glabrous plant, 
1-3 in. high, covered with minute and glandular pubescence. Leaves f-1 in. 
long, 5 in. broad, petioled, ovate- or oblong-spathulate, acute, acutely serrate 
