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obconic ; involucral scales tomentose ; rays % — | in. long ; pappus hairs 
white, slender, unequal. Aehene linear, slender. 
Northern and Middle Islands: subalpine pastures and rocky places, Kuahine moun- 
tains, Colenso ; Nelson, Bidwill , Sinclair, Munro ; Canterbury, Raoul, Ly all. This and 
the two following, though most dissimilar in their usual states, appear to me to be united hy 
intermediate forms. 
2. S. bellidioid.es. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 145. Smaller than S. Lagopus, 
quite similar in habit and woolly crown, but the petioles often more slender. 
Leaf £-4 in. long, broadly oblong or linear-oblong or cordate, obtuse at 
both ends or cordate or acute at the base, entire or crenate, margins often edged 
with white wool, above rugose and rough with hispid scattered hairs, below 
glabrate, with raised veins ; petioles more or less densely clothed with soft 
wool. Scapes slender, cottony and glandular, 1-4-flowered. Heads, etc., as 
in S. Lagopus. 
a. Leaves broad-oblong, glabrous below. Scapes cottony. 
f}. Leaves broad-oblong, densely woolly below. Scapes tomentose and glandular. 
y. Leaves linear-oblong, glabrate or villous below. Scapes glabrate. 
Middle Island, abundant in hilly pastures, etc., from Nelson to Otago, Munro, etc., as- 
cending to 7000 ft. in the Otago alps, Hector andBuchanan. 
3. S. saxifragoides, Hook.f. FI. N. Z. i. 144. Much larger than the 
two preceding, top of root sometimes 1 in. thick, covered with long villous 
wool. Leaves 3-6 in. long, with short, very stout, woolly petioles, broadly ob- 
long or orbicular, cordate, crenate, villous and silky above, densely woolly 
below. Scape 2-10 in. high, stout, bracteate, cottony or tomentose, and 
covered with black, spreading, glandular hairs, 4-10 -flowered. Heads 1J 
in. diam., as in S. Lagopus. 
Middle Island : Port Cooper, Lyall. 
4. S. Haastii, Hook.f., n. sp. Wholly covered with white, lax or ap- 
pressed, cottony wool ; rootstock woody, covered with soft wool or naked. 
Leaves with long, slender petioles, 2-8 in. long, blade 2-5 in. long, 1-3 
broad, oblong or broad cordate-oblong, obtuse, obscurely crenulate. Scape 
slender, 8-14 in. high, and peduncles very long, cottony, and slightly glan- 
dular. Heads as in S. Lagopus. 
Middle Island: Mount Cook, alt. 2700-4000 ft., shores of Lake Okau, Lake Hawea, 
and mountains near the sources of the Ahuriri, Haast ; Otago, lake district, alt. 2-3000 ft.. 
Hector and Buchanan. The Lake Okau specimen is more hulf-coloured, less cottony ; its 
tomentum is more glandular all over, and shows a tendency to pass into S. bellidioides. 
5. S. latifolius, Banks and Sol. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 145. A tall branching 
glabrous herb, 2-3 ft. high. Stems flexuose, furrowed. Leaves membra- 
nous, 4-8 in. long, very variable, lower on long winged petioles with toothed 
auricles, oblong, lobulate and toothed ; upper more fiddle-shaped or ovate- 
oblong, acute, contracted below the middle and again expanding into toothed 
auricles, 1 in. broad ; in young specimens the leaves are scaberulous, lanceo- 
late, and toothed. Heads | in. diam., in large corymbs with spreading 
branches ; involucral scales short, in 1 series, linear, acuminate ; rays slender, 
in. long - pappus very soft, white, slender. Acliene strongly ribbed, his- 
pidulous. 
