908 COMPOSITAE. , [Brachycome. 
Achenes compressed, with winged margins, or thick and obtusely 4-angled. 
Pappus a ring of short scale-like bristles or altogether wanting. | 
The genus has its headquarters. in Australia, where there are nearly 50 species. 
In addition to those, and the five following found in New Zealand, there is one from 
_ tropical South Africa and another from Assam. The New Zealand species are much 
in want of careful study and re-examination with larger sets of specimens than have 
yet been obtained. This is particularly the case with B. Sinclairii, B. odorata, and 
B. Thomsoni, three species which are at present in a very unsatisfactory condition. 
* Stemless. Leaves all radical. 
Minute, pertogihy glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, Por in. long. 
Heads ;4 in. diam. .. .. Ll. B. linecris. 
Leaves 4-14 in. long, narrow linear-spathulate, closely and uniformly | 
pinnatifid .. .. 2. B. pinnata, ! 
Leaves 4-3 in. long, oblong- or obovate- spathulate, rarely narrower, 
29 R Qinelaivis 
Spentae’ Te ~ Notes and Descriptions of New 
. »PC iGCLes LYans « ROY « SoC. NeLes Vel5, pelS7. 
3 A , Beets 1416 &10 4 
shagnycone Linearis (Petrie) TeKirk. 
/LOwering specimens of this small sénus we 
collected in love mbex, hd from moist, green, 
rey ety ee hee an ay 
matted vegetation on the snore of Lake Te Anau, 
some 100 m. weuthward of the hostel. 
rei tic _Geseribed the “habitat as "grassy flats" 
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ing, branched, ascending at the tips. Leaves radical, 4-14 in. long, linear 
or narrow linear-spathulate, deeply and closely pinnatifid ; segments broadly 
oblong or rounded, coriaceous, entire, flat or concave beneath, glabrous or 
minutely glandular-pubescent. Scapes 2-61n. long, slender, naked, glan- 
dular-pubescent. Heads 4in. diam.; involucral bracts oblong, pubescent ; 
margins purple, scarious and often jagged. Achenes obovate, glabrous ; 
margins thickened. Pappus of very minute scales.—T. Kirk Students’ 
‘© 9 Fl. (1899) 275; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 276. B. radicata var. B 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 127. MURA = 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Lake Tennyson, &. M. Laing! Canterbury—In several 
localities on the Plains; near Burnham, 7'. Kirk / between Springfield and the Kowai 
River, 7. F. C.; near Ashburton, H. H. Allan! Mount Arrowsmith, Cockayne and 
R. M. Laing. Stewart Isuanp: Lyall (Handb. ). December—January. 
Although this has a very different appearance from the ordinary state of 
B. Sinclairii, some varieties of that plant approach it so closely as to be almost 
indistinguishable. | 
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