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scales glabrous, linear, green, with rather dilated scarious brown tips ; florets 
about 12 ; pappus as in R. australis. 
Middle Island: Waihopai valley, Munro ; Canterbury plains, Travers. The wiry stems 
and very long filiform rootlets, are prominent characters, as are the uniformly grey, silky, 
linear leaves, and narrow heads with brown-tipped involucral scales. 
5. R. subulata, Hook. /., n. sp. A small, very densely tufted, rigid, 
moss-like species, quite glabrous throughout, blackish when dry. Stems stout- 
ish, branches | in. high. Leaves most densely imbricate, patent or suberect, 
rigid, subulate, acuminate. Heads large for the size of the plant, ± in. diam. ; 
involucral scales linear-oblong, scarious, shorter than the leaves ; receptacle 
convex, hispid ; florets of circumference in several rows. Pappus of rigid, 
scabrid hairs, rather thickened at the tips. Achene silky. 
Middle Island : Nelson mountains, Sinclair : Otago mountains, alt. 5-6000 ft., Hector 
and Buchanan. A remarkable and very small species, differing much from the foregoing in 
the pappus, hispid receptacle, and foliage. 
6. R. eximia, Hook.f., n. sp. A small, most densely tufted, hard little 
plant, forming large woolly balls on the mountains, enveloped in soft, velvety, 
white tomentum. Branches very short, with the leaves forming cylindric 
or mammilliform knobs, £ in. diam. Leaves most densely compacted, wholly 
hidden amongst woolly hairs, imbricated all round in many series, -§• in. long, 
membranous, broadly linear- or obovate-oblong, rounded at the tip, bearing 
at the back above the middle a dense thick pencil of white velvety hairs, 
these bundles of hairs, meeting beyond the leaves, envelope the whole. Heads 
minute, sunk amongst the upper leaves; involucral scales about 10, linear, 
with subulate or obtuse tips, and a tuft of hairs on the back above the 
middle ; receptacle convex, naked ; florets about 10. Pappus of few rigid 
hairs, thickened upwards. Achene silky, with very long hairs. 
Middle Islands : Riband-wood rage, Mount Arrowsmith and Dobsou, alt. 5500-6000 ft., 
Sinclair, Haast. A most singular plant, forming hemispherical cushions on the mountains, 
2 ft. high and 3 in. diam., called “ Vegetable Sheep.” Very near allied to R. niammillaris. 
7. R. Hectori, Hook. /., n. sp. Most densely tufted, 1-2 in. high; 
branchlets erect, densely leafy, silvery at the tips. Leaves closely imbricate, 
erecto-patent, in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, coriaceous, more membra- 
nous below the middle, upper half covered wdth appressed silvery shining 
tomentum, back grooved longitudinally when dry. Heads small, sunk 
amongst the uppermost leaves ; involucral scales about 10-12, scarious, 
linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, yellowish, glabrous ; receptacle conical, 
pilose; florets about 20. Pappus of few, rigid, scabrous hairs, thickened up- 
wards. Achene silky. 
Middle Island : Otago, lake district, in dry, subalpine places, Hector and Buchanan. 
A very distinct species, resembling in habit some states of R. australis. 
8. R. glabra, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 135. Steins elongate, slender, pro- 
strate, branching, 2-10 in. long ; branches ascending. Leaves laxly imbricate, 
spreading, hardly ever recurved, \ in. long, linear or linear-oblong, acute or ob- 
tuse, glabrous or nearly so, rarely silky, 1-nerved, green. Pleads rather large, 
A— | in. diam. ; outer involucral scales leaf-like, but with broader bases ; inner 
linear, with short, white, radiating tips ; florets numerous, outer in 2 series, 
