152 xxxix. composite. [ Gnaphalimn . 
Stems short, tufted. Leaves silky on both surfaces 10. G. nitidulum. 
4. Heads corymbose , not bracteate. Inner involucral scales not 
white nor radiating. Pappus hairs very slender 11. G. luteo-album. 
5. Heads collected into a dense, Iracteate globe. Inner involucral scales not white 
nor radiating. Bracts broad, densely woolly. Female florets in 1 series. Pappus- 
hairs stout, rigid, thickened upwards. 
Leaves £ in. long, rosulate. Inflorescence on a stout, terminal pe- 
duncle 12. G. Colensoi. 
Leaves £ in. long, densely imbricate, recurved. Inflorescence sessile 13. G. grandiceps. 
6. Heads collected into a dense, bracteate globe. Bracts linear. Inner involucral scales 
not white nor radiating. Female florets in many senes. Pappus hairs very slender. 
Stem erect, branched, leafy. Leaves linear, glabrous above . . . 14. G. involucratum. 
Leaves radical, spreading, and scape densely cottony 15. G. collinum. 
1. G. prostratum, Hook. f. FI. Antarct. 30, t. 21 ; — FI. N. Z. i. 
137. Stems rather slender, prostrate, woody at the base, 8-18 in. long, with 
many ascending leafy branches. Leaves uniform, loosely imbricating, £ in. 
long, spreading or recurved, flat, obovate-spathulate, covered below or on both 
surfaces with dense, white, appressed wool, 1-nerved. Heads sessile at the 
tips of the branches, i in. diam. ; involucral scales in many series, white, ra- 
diating, ^ in. long, with white cottony claws ; receptacle conical ; female 
florets in many series ; pappus hairs very slender. Achene glabrous. 
Northern Island : Mount Egmont, alt. 4000 ft., Bieffenbach ; top of Titiokura, Colenso. 
Abundant in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. B. H. 
2. G. bellidioid.es. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 137. Stems and leaves and 
flower-heads as in G. prostratum, of which it is probably a variety, but the 
ends of the branches are produced into slender bracteate peduncles, 2-5 in. long. 
Receptacle conical, or plane with a conical mammilla. — Xeranthemum, Forst. 
Abundant in alpine districts in the Northern and Middle Islands, ascending to 5000 
ft., Banks and Solander, etc. 
3. G. (Heliehrysum) Youngii, Hook./., n. sp. A small, prostrate, 
densely tufted species, 1-2 in. high. Leaves imbricating on the short branches, 
erecto-patent, \ in. long, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, densely clothed on both 
surfaces with snow-white cottony wool. Head sessile amongst the leaves, % 
in. diam. ; involucral scales in 2 or 3 series, the inner white, radiating ; recep- 
tacle very small, narrow; florets about 12, female in 1 series; pappus hairs 
thickened upwards, rather stout. Achene pubescent. 
Middle Island : mountains above Lake Hawea,- alt. 6000 ft., forming patches ; summit of 
Mount 'L'orlesse and Mount Cook, on shingle, alt. 6500-7000 ft., Haast ; Otago, lake dis- 
trict, Hector and Buchanan. Named in honour of Mr. William Young, Mr. Haast’s fellow- 
traveller and able assistant, both as a surveyor and botanical collector. A beautiful little 
snow-white plant, intermediate in habit between Eaoulia and the two preceding Gnaphalia. 
4. G. Lyallii, Hook./. Ft. N. Z. i. 137. Stem very stout, almost woody, 
prostrate, branched, as thick as a swan’s quill ; branches stout, erect, leafy, 
5-10 in. high, cottony above. Leaves close-set, spreading, 2 in. long, 
broad, narrow oblong-lanceolate, broader upwards, acute, 3-nerved, glabrous 
above, appressed tomentose beneath. Heads f in. diam., forming dense 
corymbs, 2-4 in. across; pedicels cottony; involucral rays very many, ^ in. 
