Gnaphalium.| _ COMPOSITAE. 963 
female, in 2 or more rows, numerous, filiform, minutely 3-4-toothed. Disc- 
florets hermaphrodite, fewer in number, tubular with a funnel-shaped 
d-toothed mouth. Anthers sagittate at the base, produced into fine tails: 
“Style-branches of the disc-florets nearly terete, truncate or capitate. 
Achenes oblong or obovoid, not ribbed. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, slender 
or thickened at the tip, caducous, often connate at the base. 
A large genus, spread over the whole world, hardly distinguishable from Heli- 
chrysum and others except by the more numerous female flowers. Of the New Zealand 
species two are widely distributed in many countries, two others extend to Australia, 
the remainder are endemic. 
A. Inner involucral bracis white and radiating. Heads corymbose. 
Stems robust. Leaves 2-4in. x 4-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved 
beneath. Heads 4 in. diam. i A 2: wet bs Gi. Lyalite, 
Stems slender, prostrate cr decumbent. Leaves 4-1 in., obovate- 
spathulate, faintly 3-nerved above. Heads $-}in. diam. .. 2. G. trinerve. 
Stems slender. Leaves $-24in. x }-4in., linear-lanceolate. Heads 
+ in. diam. i rat 4 os a .. 3. G. Keriense. 
Stems branched, slender, rigid. Leaves 3-Ildin. x #-sin., 
narrow-linear, margins recurved. Heads 4 in. es ». 4. G. subrigidum. 
B. Inner involucral bracts not white and radiating. 
* Heads solitary, terminal. 
Small, 1-4in. high, simple or branched below. Leaves 4-2 in., 
linear-obovate, white on both surfaces. Head 4 in. diam. .- O. G. Traversir. 
Small, 1-2in. high, solitary or tufted. Leaves 1-1 in., linear- 
spathulate, white beneath. Heads 4 in. diam. af a 
Small, stems short, tufted. Leaves imbricate, 4 in., linear, silky on 
both surfaces. Head 4in. diam. 1% ry. i. .» 7. G. nitidulum. 
6. G. paludosum. 
** Heads numerous, corymbose, ebracteate. 
Stems 3-18in. Leaves 1-3in., linear or linear-spathulate, white 
and woolly on both surfaces m! 15 ay .. 8. G. luteo-album. 
*** Heads compacted into a dense glomerule, with linear bracts at the base. 
Annual, stems 6-20 in., branched, erect, leafy. Glomerules 3—] in. 
diam. ‘ + ". e A 1 ¥ 
Perennial, with creeping stolons. Stems 3-12in., simple. Leaves 
mostly radical. Glomerules smaller . a ; . 10. G. collinum. 
9, G. japonicum. 
* 1. G. Lyallii Hook. f. FI. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 1837.—Stems 1-2 ft. high, 
stout, branched, decumbent or prostrate at the woody base, then erect, 
cottony above. Leaves close-set or the upper remote, spreading, 2—4 in. 
long, ¢-Z1in. broad, narrow oblong-lanceolate or narrow obovate-lanceolate, 
acute, gradually narrowed to a sessile base, membranous, glabrous above, 
beneath clothed with thinly appressed white tomentum and distinctly 
d-nerved. Heads rather large, $in. diam., disposed in many-flowered 
terminal corymbs 2-4in, across; pedicels cottony. Involucral bracts 
numerous, scarious, white, radiating, with short woolly claws. Female 
florets very numerous, disc-florets much fewer. Achene linear-oblong, 
smooth, glabrous. Pappus-hairs few, very slender.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
152; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 297; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
323. G. adhaerens Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 244. 
Nortu Istanp: Taranaki—Sea-coast at Opunake, 7. Kirk; and at Manaia, 
Mrs. F, Mason! Waingongora, Cockayne. Wellington—Murimotu and Moawhanga. 
Petrie! Ruahine Mountains, Colenso / Andrew, Howlett! Rimutaka Ranges, T. Kirk ! 
SoutH IsLtanp: Not uncommon along the western side from Collingwood to the Otira, 
Gorge and southwards to Milford Sound. _  Sea-level_to 2500 ft. November- 
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