160 xxxix. composite. [Senecio. 
Northern Island: in wooded districts, Banks and Solander, lieffenbach, Bidwill ; 
Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, and Ruahine range, Colenso. 
6. S. lautus, Ford. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 145. An excessively variable, per- 
fectly glabrous or slightly cottony, branched herb, 6 in. to 2 ft. high. Stem 
stout, grooved, green, flexuose. Leaves 1-2 in. long, sessile with amplexicaul 
auricles, or petioled, rather fleshy, ovate-oblong or linear, entire toothed lobed 
or pinnatifid ; lobes long or short, broad or narrow. Heads in few-flowered 
corymbs, ^ j in. long, \ in. diam., broad-campanulate ; involucral scales 
linear, acuminate ; outer florets with short revolute rays, rarely 0 ; pappus 
fine, soft, white. Achene glabrous, ribbed or puberulous. — S. neglect as and 
S. rupicola, A. Eick. El. t. 37. 
A most abundant plant, especially on maritime rocks and sands, ascending the mountains 
to 6000 ft., Banks and Solander. Some Otago mountain specimens are slightly cottony, 
but none others that I have seen. Equally abundant in Tasmania aud South Australia. 
7. S. Colensoi, Hoolc.f. FI. N. Z. i. 147. An erect, much-branched 
herb, covered with white cottony or cobwebby tomeutum, except peduncles 
and heads. Stem flexuose, grooved. Leaves 1-4 in. long, coriaceous, linear- 
oblong, lyrate or contracted in the middle, sessile with broad auricled bases, 
deeply irregularly toothed or lobulate, obtuse or acute, tomentose on both 
surfaces. Heads few, corymbose, | in. long, broadly campanulate ; rays 
short, revolute. Achene small, grooved, silky. 
Northern Island : cliffs near the sea, Bay of Islands, East Cape, and Cape Kidnapper, 
Colenso. This has the cottony tomentum and much the appearance of Erechtites arauta. 
I have immature specimens from Colenso of a variety or an allied species, covered with loose 
coarse white tomentum. 
8. S. odoratus, Hornemann. — S. Batiksii, FI. N. Z. i. 146. A per- 
fectly glabrous or sparsely pilose, tall, slender or very robust plant, 2-5 ft. 
high. Stem flexuose, grooved. Leaves coriaceous, sessile, with auricled am- 
plexicaul bases, 2-4 in. long, 2 in. broad, broadly oblong to lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, strongly veined. Heads small, L in. long, corymbose 
on slender pedicels, broadly campanulate ; rays short, revolute. Achene 
slender, grooved, pubescent. 
Northern Island : east coast, Banks and Solander ; on maritime cliffs, Colenso. Also 
found in South Australia and Tasmania, where the leaves are sometimes cottony. 
9. S. Lyallii, Hook. f. — S. Lyallii and S. (?) scorzoner aides, FI. N. Z. 
i. 146. Glabrous, or glandular-pubescent. Eootstock very thick, crowned 
with long silky hairs. Stem stout, simple, erect, 1-2 ft. high, leafy, ending 
in a branched corymb of many flower-heads. Leaves all quite entire ; radical 
petiolate, oblong-lanceolate or very narrow linear, 2-10 in. long, f broad, 
subacute, 1-5-nerved, cauline numerous, sessile, stem-clasping, gradually 
narrowed from the base to the obtuse tip. Branches of corymb (peduncles) 
simple, bracteate. Heads large, 1-2 in. diam. ; involucre broadly turbinate, 
scales in 1 series, linear, pubescent ; rays 1 in. long ; pappus of rigid, 
dirty-white, unequal scabrid hairs. Achene narrow, silky, ribbed. 
Middle Island: west coast, Milford Sound and Dusky Bay, Lyall ; abundant on the 
alps, ascending to 5000 ft., Munro, Sinclair, Travers, Haast, etc. A truly magnificent, 
but excessively variable plant. Buchanan observes that the flowers vary in colour from 
salmon-colour to bright-yellow. S. scorzonerioides is a very broad-leaved, glandular state. 
