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980 COMPOSITAE. | Leucogenes. 
Sourn Isnanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to Otago. 
SrewaRt IstAND: Rare. Summits of Mount Anglem and Table Hill, Cockayme ; 
Mount Allen, Murdoch. 2500-5500 ft. December—January. 
L. Leontopodium, which represents L. grandiceps in the north of Nelson and on the 
higher mountains of the North Island, is the only species which can be said to be closely 
allied. Butit can be easily distinguished by the numerous persistent basal leaves, which 
often form rosettes, and by the longer and more erect cauline leaves. 
* 3. L. (2) Grahami Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlv (1913) 268.—Stems 
numerous from the top of a long stout and woody root, simple or sparingly 
branched, slender, pliant, }-+in. diam., 4-6in. long. Leaves closely 
imbricated, appressed or slightly spreading at the tips, sessile by a broad 
base, triangular-lanceolate, acute, + in. long, everywhere clothed with lax 
greyish-white cottony tomeatum; a few of the floral leaves rather larger 
than the others, but not exceeding the heads. Heads in capitate fascicles 
of 2-5, terminal, sessile, each =4,in. diam. Involucral bracts in 3 series, 
linear-oblong, subacute, pale and shining, scarious, the outer sparingly 
tomentose on the back. Florets numerous; female in 1 series; corolla 
abruptly swollen at the base, narrow, slightly dilated above ; pappus-hairs 
few, slender, barbellate, slightly thickened above. Achene sparsely payllose. 
Sours Isnanp : Canterbury—Mount Sebastopol (Mount Cook district), P. Graham ! 
February—March. 
A very distinct plant. I have only seen one good specimen, and a few scraps, and 
in default of better material have reproduced Mr. Petrie’s description. But the 
inflorescence, pappus-hairs, and achenes are so different to those of Leucogenes that I 
anticipate that it will ultimately fall into a different genus. 
13. EWARTIA Beauverd. 
Perennial herbs, more or less suffruticose at the base, usually densely 
clothed with silvery-white pubescence ; branches elongated, laxly foliose. 
Leaves small, alternate, entire, laxly imbricate. Heads small, sessile or 
peduncled, crowded or solitary at the ends of the branches, terminal, 
heterogamous and discoid. Involucre oblong or hemispherical; bracts 
imbricated in 2-3 series, more or less rigid and scarious, furnished with 
white radiating tips. Receptacle narrow, alveolate, pilose or fimbrillate, 
naked when old. Florets of the circumference in a single series, female, 
narrow-tubular, 3—4-toothed.  Disc-florets tubular, with a narrow-cam- 
panulate limb. Anthers sagittate at the base, produced into fine tails. 
Style-branches truncate or subcapitate, or of the females linear-filiform. 
Pappus-hairs in 1 series, slender, shortly barbellate, scaberulous towards 
the base, clavate-papillose towards the top. Achenes oblong-fusiform, 
obscurely papillose or puberulose. 
A small genus of 5 species, 4 confined to Australia, the remaining 1 endemic in 
New Zealand. The species have been placed by botanists in turns in Gnaphalium, 
Helichrysum, Raoulia, Antennaria, and Leontopodium. Such a complete want of 
unanimity is probably the best proof that could be offered of the desirability of esta- 
blishing a separate genus for their reception, and most New Zealand botanists will 
agree with Beauverd’s action. 
1. E. Sinelairii, Cheesem. n. comb.— A small much - branched herb 
6-12in. high; stems and branches ascending, leafy, clothed throughout 
with white cottony tomentum. Leaves close-set or laxly spreading, 
4-iin. long, é In. broad, linear-oblong to obovate-spathulate, obtuse, 
densely covered with white cottony tomentum on both surfaces. Heads 
