156 xxxix. composite. [ Haastia . 
Leaves most densely imbricate, 3-nerved, crenulate. Pappus hairs free. 1. B. pulvinaris. 
Leaves laxly imbricate, recurved. Pappus hairs uuited below . . . 2. II. recurva. 
Leaves laxly imbricate, suberect. Pappus hairs free 3. if. Sinclairii. 
1. U. pulvinaris, Hook. f. Plants forming dense hemispheres or 
cushions, 3 ft. across, covered with fulvous wool ; branches with the leaves 
on as thick as the thumb. Leaves patent, \ in. long, crenulate, most densely 
imbricate, broadly obcuneate, with dilated rounded tips, margins recurved 
towards the tip, membranous, 3-nerved when the wool is removed. Heads 
in. broad. Pappus hairs free to the base. Achene glabrous. 
Middle Island; Kaikora mountains, and Mowatt’s Mountain, alt. 5000 ft., Sinclair ; 
Discovery Peaks, alt. 5800 ft., Travers. One of the most extraordinary plants in the islands. 
Sinclair says the patches are so dense, that the finger cannot be thrust between the branches. 
2. H. recurva, HooJc.f. More laxly tufted, as densely covered with 
wool, which is more rufous when dry. Leaves loosely imbricating, in. long, 
obovate-spathulate, recurved. Heads i in. diam. Pappus hairs paleaceous 
and united at the base. Achene glabrous. 
Middle Island: shingle-beds above 5000 ft., Tarndale, Sinclair ; Discovery Peaks, alt. 
5800 ft., Travers ; Mount Torlesse, alt. 6000 ft., Baast. 
3. H. Sinclairii, Hook.f. Loosely tufted, branches ascending, erect, 
covered with paler cottony wool. Leaves erect, imbricating, in. long, 
oblong-obovate or rounded-obovate, obtuse, not recurved, 5-7-nerved. Head 
1 in. diam. ; involucral scales broader than in the preceding species. Pap- 
pus hairs free to the base. Achene glabrous. 
Middle Island : shingle beds, alt. 4-6000 ft., Wairau and Awatere mountains, and at 
the Wairau pass, Sinclair ; Mounts Darwin and Cook, Baast ; Mount Brewster, dry debris, 
alt. 6000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. 
16. ERECHTITES, Eafinesque. 
Tall, perennial, glabrous or cottony herbs. Leaves alternate, simple or 
runcinate-pinnatifid. — Heads corymbose, bracteolate, very narrow, cylindric 
or bell-shaped ; involucral scales in 1 series, herbaceous, narrow linear, ap- 
pressed. Receptacle papillose. Florets of circumference in 2 or more series, 
female, excessively slender, tubular, 2— 4- toothed ; of the disk hermaphrodite, 
campanulate above ; anthers without tails ; arms of style with short terminal 
cones. Pappus in many series of excessively slender, soft, roughened hairs. 
Achene oblong, striated, glabrate or hispid, obtuse or narrowed at the tip, 
terminated by a disk-like thickened top. 
A small genus, the species are natives chiefly of Australia and Tasmania ; a few others are 
American aud Indian. 
Glabrous. Leaves toothed or pinnatifid. Achene slender . . . 1. E. prenanthoides. 
More or less cottony. Leaves pinnatifid. Achene short .... 2. A. arguta. 
Hispid, except the heads and pedicels 3 . B. scaberula. 
Cottony and white. Leaves linear, long, with revolute margins . 4. E. quadridentata. 
1. E. prenanthoides, DC. ,—Fl. N. Z. i. 141. A tall, glabrous, sim- 
ple or branched herb, 1-3 ft. high, rarely slightly hairy. Leaves 3-6 in. 
long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, lower petiolate, upper sessile with auricled 
bases, toothed lobed or pinnatifid. Corymb lax ; heads quite glabrous, nu- 
