154 Xxxix. composite . [ Gnaphalium . 
and Puehntai, Colenso. Middle Island?, Banks and Solander ; Canterbury, IJaast ; 
Otago, grass flats in the lake district, Hector and Buchanan. 
9. G. Traversii, Hoolc.f, n. sp. A small, slender, erect, almost simple 
plant, 2-3 in. high ; stem and leaves on both sides covered loosely with 
snow-white cottony wool. Leaves radical, petiolate, spreading, ■§— £ in. long, 
spathulate-obovate. Head solitary, % in. diam., on a scapiform slender stem, 
with 2 or 3 linear bracts ; involucral scales numerous, linear, scarious, hyaline, 
shining, outer cottony at the base, inner with erect paler tips ; receptacle 
flat ; pappus hairs excessively fine. Achene puberulous. 
Middle Island: Wairau mountains, alt. 3-4000 ft., Travers; alps of Canterbury, 
Haast. Mueller has sent this same plant from the Victorian alps, as G. involucratum, var. 
monocephalam, but besides the totally different habit it differs from that plant in the heads 
not being bracteate and twice as large, and in the looser cottony tomentum. 
10. G. nitidulum, Hoolc.f., n. sp. A small, densely tufted species, 
covered with appressed, silky, shining, yellowish tomentum. Leaves closely 
imbricated at their bases, above spreading, flat, a in. long, linear, obtuse ; 
lower v, membranous, glabrous, upper f densely silky. Heads terminal, 
solitary, large, ^ in. broad, on very short, slender peduncles ; involucral scales 
in 2 series, erect, linear, hyaline, shining, with pale erect tips ; florets not 
seen. 
Middle Island : Nelson mountains, Sinclair ; Clarence and Wairau valleys, alt. 3500 
ft., Travers. 
11. G. luteo-album, Linn.; — FI. N. Z. i. 139. Stems simple or 
branched from the base, erect or ascending, 6-18 in. high, and leaves 
densely covered with cottony tomentum. Leaves scattered, -f-2 in. long, 
narrow-linear or linear-spathulate. Heads fascicled, \ in. long, fascicles 
collected in corymbs, dusky-yellow, cottony at the base ; involucral scales 
erect, tips incurved, numerous, linear-oblong, scarious, hyaline, shining. 
Worthem and Kermadec Islands ; very common in some places, rarer in the Middle 
Island ; Kowai valley and Rangitata ranges, Haast ; sand dunes, Dunedin, Lindsay ; Otago, 
lake district, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auckland’s group, Lyall. A very abundant 
tropical weed. 
12. G. (Helichrysum) Colensoi, Hook. f. ; — Helichrysum Leontopo- 
dium, FI. N. Z. i. 141. t. 37 B. A tufted, alpine, very silky species. Stems 
ascending, 1-4 in. high, terminating in stout woolly bracteate or leafy pedun- 
cles 1-2 in. long. Leaves densely imbricate, rosulate, patent or reflexed, 
flat, in. long, linear-oblong, subacute, uniformly clothed with silky shining- 
hairs, striate when dry ; those on the peduncle smaller and shorter. Heads 
densely crowded into a bracteate capitulum -j in. diam. ; bracts many, spread- 
ing, ^ — i- in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, most densely woolly ; each head A in. 
long ; involucral scales linear-lanceolate, erect, scarious, shining, woolly at the 
back ; pappus hairs few, stout, scabrid, thickened upwards. Achene silky. 
Northern Island : Ruahine range and Mount Hikurangi, Colenso. Middle Island : 
Tarndale mountains, in shingle, alt. 5000 ft., Sinclair. 
13. G. (Helichrysum) grandiceps, Hoolc.f., n. sp. Densely tufted. 
Stems ascending, and branches 2-3 in. long, uniformly and densely clothed 
to the tips with leaves, and terminated by the sessile bracteate heads. Leaves 
