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\_Brdchycome. 
border ; pappus minute, bristly or 0. Achene much compressed, narrow 
linear-obovoid, glandular or eglandular, margins thickened. 
Var. a. Leaves obtusely lobulate. Involucral scales with white or pale-purple edges. 
Achene glandular ; pappus 0. 
Var. /3. Leaves lobulate or entire. Involucral scales as in a. Achene glabrous ; pappus 
evident. 
Var. y. Smaller, alpine. Leaves quite entire. Scape short, stout, very glandular. In- 
volucral scales with broad purple edges. Achene glabrous ; pappus 0. Ray sometimes very 
long. 
Northern Island: not common; var. a, grassy places, cast coast, Colenso. Middle 
Island : var. a and /8, common in subalpiue localities, Gordon’s Nob, and top of Macrae’s 
Run, Munro ; shingle beds, Ahuriri, Mount Misery, alt. 2-4000 ft., aud elsewhere in 
Southern Alps, Sinclair , Travers , Hector, and Haast ; var. y, Otago alps, alt. 6-7000 ft., 
Hector. A common and variable plant in the Middle Island ; the only representative of the 
Daisy in New Zealand. 
2. B. odorata, Iloolc.f., n.sp. A small species, 2-4 in. high, branched 
from the base, pubescent and subglandular. Khizome woody, as thick as a 
crow-quill, perpendicular, with ascending leafy branches at the tip, terminating- 
in Stout 1- or 2-bracteate scapes. Leaves few, 1 in. long; petiole slender; 
blade spathulate, deeply unequally 3-8-lobed. Scape 2-3 in. long. Head 
£ in. diam. ; involucral scales short, not purple at the tips ; ray very short ; 
pappus very short, obscure. Achene linear-clavate, densely glandular. 
Northern Island : Patea village, Colenso, who observes that it is a favourite plant with 
the natives, is called “ Rouia,” and worn round the neck for its scent. The IS. radicata 
of 11. N. Z. was founded partly on this, and partly on specimens of a Brachycome in 
A. Cunningham’s herbarium, which I am now convinced were introduced there by acci- 
dent, and belong to an Australian species. The name of B. radicata had therefore better 
be abandoned. 
3. B. pinnata, Hook. /., n. sp.- — B. radicata, var. /?, FI. N. Z. i. 127. 
Glabrous or minutely pubescent. Khizome stout, ascending. Leaves all 
radical, -J-1 in. long, -J- in. broad, narrow linear-oblong, gradually dilated 
upwards, pinnatifid, the lobes uniform, orbicular, close-set, quite entire, coria- 
ceous, concave beneath. Scape slender, ebracteate, 3 in. long. Head ■§ in. 
diam. ; involucral scales and florets as in B. Sinclairii. 
Southern Island, Lyall. I have but one specimen of this pretty little plant. 
7. BIDETfS, Linn. 
Erect herbs. Leaves opposite, simple or compound. Heads erect, usually 
terminal and peduncled. — Involucral scales few, erect, narrow. Keceptacle 
chaffy. Florets of ray ligulate, neuter, or 0 ; of disk hermaphrodite, tubular, 
5-toothed. Styles bifid, arms with subulate points. Pappus of 2-4 barbed 
hispid rigid awns. Achene narrow, 4-angled, or flattened, sometimes beaked. 
A large genus, found in all warm and most temperate parts of the world. 
1. B. pilosa, Linn. An erect, glabrous or slightly hairy annual, 1-2 ft. 
high, with angular branches. Leaves membranous, lower generally simple, 
upper pinnately divided, segments 3-5, stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
1-2 in. long, serrate, rarely lobed. Heads few, terminal on slender pedun- 
