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966 poke PManeor ‘COMPOSITAE. | Gnaphalium. 
Nort IsuANp: Waimarino Plains and base of Tongariro, 7’. F. C., A. Hill! 
Rangipo Plains and Ruahine Mountains, Petrie / Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. Aston ! 
Sourn IsLanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts, usually in peaty swamps, from 
Nelson to Otago. 1500-5500 ft. December—January. Taunus: 7¢: LO! 
Closely allied to G. Traversii, but easily separated by the smaller size and more 
slender habit, thinner leaves glabrous on the upper surface, smaller heads, and fewer 
involucral bracts with dark tips. 'The type specimens of Mr. Colenso’s G. minutulum 
are identical with Mr. Petrie’s plant. 
7. G. nitidulum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 154.—A small densely 
tufted plant, covered in all its parts with appressed silky and shining pale 
yellowish-brown tomentum. Leaves gin. long, densely imbricated and 
sheathing at the base, spreading above, linear or linear-oblong, flat, obtuse ; 
lower + glabrous, membranous; upper } densely silky. Heads terminating 
the branches, solitary, in. diam. or slightly more, on short peduncles 
barely exceeding the leaves. Involucral scales in 2 series, erect, linear, 
hyaline, with pale shining tips. Female florets very numerous, much more 
so than the hermaphrodite; pappus-hairs many, scabrid at the base. 
Achenes faintly downy.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 299; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 325. 
Sout Isnanp: Nelson—Nelson Mountains, Sinclair; Clarence and Wairauv 
Valleys, W. T. L. Travers ; Upper Clarence Valley, near Lake Tennyson, A. M. Laing / 
3000-4000 ft. January. ; 
A well-marked species, easily distinguished from its allies by the linear-oblong 
obtuse leaves covered on both surfaces with dense silky tomentum, short peduncles, 
and erect linear involucral scales. 
8. G. luteo-album Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 851.— Annual or rarely 
biennial, clothed in all its parts with soft white woolly tomentum. Stems 
erect, ascending or decumbent, simple or branched at the base, 3-18 in. 
high. Lower leaves often petiolate, 1-3 in. long, linear or linear-spathulate 
to obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute; upper smaller, sessile, linear or 
lanceolate, acute. Heads tin. diam.; pale-yellow or brownish-yellow, 
glistening, in dense ebracteate clusters arranged in a corymbose manner at 
the ends of the branches. Involucre almost globose ; bracts erect, oblong, 
obtuse, scarious, tips incurved. Female florets exceedingly numerous ; 
hermaphrodite ones few. Achene minutely papillose.—A. Rich. Pl. Now. 
Zel. (1832) 236; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 450; Raoul Choix (1846) 45 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 188; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 154; ZT. Kark 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 298; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 326; Subantarct. 
Is. N.Z, 11 (1909) 414. gals : 
KERMADEC IsLANDS, NortH AND SoutrH IsiANps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM 
Istanps, AUCKLAND Isuanps: Abundant throughout from sea-level to fully 3500 ft. 
Novem ber—March. 
A common plant in almost all warm and many temperate countries. 
9. G. japonicum Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) 311.—Annual, erect, 6—20 in. 
high. Stems often woody at the base, branched, more or less white and 
cottony. Leaves scattered, 1-4in. long, oblong-spathulate or linear- 
spathulate to linear-lanceolate, the lower often petiolate, acute, glabrous 
above or nearly so, cottony-white beneath. Heads small, 4-+in. long, 
compacted into dense globose clusters or compound heads }-1 in. diam., 
which either terminate the branches or are axillary, and are surrounded by 
3-6 linear spreading floral leaves. Involucral bracts scarious, hyaline, erect, 
