Gnaphalium.] 
XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 
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closely imbricating, small, recurved, % in. long, concave, oblong-spathulate, 
obtuse, recurved, densely covered with thick white silvery tomentum. Heads 
and florets in G. Colensoi, but bracts shorter. 
Middle Island : Mount Sinclair ; moraines of the Great Clyde glacier ; mountains near 
Lake Hawea, Mountains Cook andTorlesse, alt. 4000-6000 ft., Sinclair, Haast ; Otago, lake 
district, subalpine, Hector and Buchanan. Allied to G. Colensoi, but very different in the 
small, broad, recurved, closely imbricated, uniform, less silvery leaves, and inflorescence 
not peduncled. 
14. G. involucratum, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 139. An erect annual. 
Stems branched at the base, 1-2 ft. high, branches often proliferous, stiff, 
cottony. Leaves scattered, spreading, often fascicled, 1-3 in. long, narrow- 
linear or lanceolate, acute, glabrous above, cottony beneath ; margins often 
recurved and wrinkled. Heads small, in. long, collected into dense axil- 
lary and terminal globular balls 1 in. diam., which are subtended by nu- 
merous spreading or reflexed linear foliaceous bracts 1 in. long and of variable 
breadth ; involucral scales erect, hyaline, linear, acute ; female florets numer- 
ous, hermaphrodite very few ; pappus hairs very slender. Achene glabrous. — 
G. virgatam, Banks and Sol. ; — Bl. N. Z. i. 139 ; G. lanatum , Forst. ; G. Cun- 
ninghamii , DC. 
Abundant throughout the islands, in waste places, Banks and Solander, etc.. The G. 
virgatum, B. and S., not to be distinguished even as a variety I fear. Abundant iu Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania. 
15. G. collinum, Labill. FI. Nov. Holl. t. 189 -—FI. N. Z. i. 139. 
Perennial, roots with runners. Stems scapiform. Leaves chiefly radical, pe- 
tiolate, 2-4 in. long, lanceolate-spathulate, acuminate, covered with cottony 
wool on both surfaces. Scape 4-8 in. high, slender, white and cottony; 
bracts 2 or 3, foliaceous. Heads as in G. involucratum , but collected into a 
smaller fewer-headed subglobose capitulum, with only 1 or 2 linear bracts at 
their base. — G. simplex, Forst. ? 
Northern Island: dry hills, Bay of Islands, east coast, etc. Middle Island: not 
uncommon in the Canterbury district; Otago, lake district, Hector and Buchanan. Though 
extremely dissimilar in its typical state from G. involucratum, I find now so many almost 
intermediate forms, that I suspect their permanent difference, and am disposed to refer the 
vars. P and y of the N. Z. Flora to that plant. 
15. HAASTIA, Hook, f., nov. gen. 
Very densely tufted, low, woolly herbs, forming balls or cushions on the 
lofty mountains. Leaves crowded, broad. Flower-heads large, solitary, ter- 
minal, sunk amongst the uppermost leaves. — Involucral scales in 2 series, 
very numerous, narrow, herbaceous with scarious tips, free or connate at the 
base, acuminate. Receptacle narrow, flat, papillose. Florets of circumference 
in 2 or more series, female ; corolla very short, slender, tubular, with a cre- 
nulate mouth ; styles with very long exserted arms, papillose at the tips. 
Florets of disk very numerous, funnel-shaped, hermaphrodite ; arms of style 
shorter ; anthers without tails. Pappus of 1 series of rather rigid, white, 
slender, scabrid hairs, thickened towards the tip. Achene compressed, linear 
or oblong, even or grooved. 
A very singular and distinct genus, differing from the other Gnaphalioid Composites in the 
tailless anthers. 
