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Helichrysum. | COMPOSITAE, 983: 
with short white radiating tips. Florets very numerous; females few, 
in 1-2 series. Achene glabrous, with a thickened areole at the base. 
Pappus-hairs few, slender, barbellate above.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) . 
309 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 338. 
Sourn Isuanp: Nelson—Banks of the River Percival, Hanmer, in company with 
H. bellidioides and H. glomeratum, C. E. Christensen! Otago—West side of Dunedin 
Harbour, between Ravensbourne and Port Chalmers, A. C. Purdie / Petrie! B.C. 
Aston ! Cockayne ! Sea-level to 1500 ft. November—December. 
A very puzzling species, not very closely allied to any other. 
3. H. filicaule Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 140, t. 368.—Rhizome 
long, wiry, creeping, putting up numerous very slender simple or rarely 
branched erect cottony stems 3-10 in. high. Leaves distant, $-31n. long, 
obovate-oblong or narrow-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, glabrous or slightly 
cottony above, beneath clothed with white cottony tomentum. Heads 
solitary, terminal on long filiform peduncles, 4in. diam. ; involucral bracts 
in about 4 series; the outer shorter, oblong, obtuse, cottony at the base ; 
inner longer, linear-oblong or linear, acute, scarious. Receptacle small, 
convex. Florets numerous; females few, in 1 series. Achene obscurely 
papillose or puberulous. Pappus-hairs very slender.—7. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 309; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 338. Gnaphalium filicaule 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 153. | 
Norra snp Sours Istanps, CHarHam Isnanps, Stewart Istanp: Not un- 
common in dry grassy places from Rotorua southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. 
December—February. 4 
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4. H, glomeratum Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. n (1873) 311.— 
A much-branched shrub 3-8 ft. high; branches spreading, slender, flexuous, 
grooved, tomentose above. Leaves alternate, very variable in size, 4-1} in. 
long, orbicular or broadly ovate or ovate-spathulate, obtuse or minutely 
apiculate, suddenly narrowed into a short slender petiole, quite entire, 
flat; upper surface glabrous, minutely reticulate; beneath clothed with 
white cottony tomentum. Heads in terminal or lateral sessile or staiked 
subglobose corymbs, small, 4, in. diam. Involucral bracts few, in about 
3 series, oblong, obtuse, scarious, woolly at the base. florets 8-12, 
2 or 3 of them female. Achene puberulous, with a thickened areole 
at the base. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 311; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 341. Ozothamnus glomeratus 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 133; Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 146. Swam- 
merdammia glomerata Raoul Choir (1846) 20, t. 16. vs) 
Uy -:20 COQvanm. Se. Wek: Soy ies). 
Norra AnD Sours Isutanps: Not uncommon from the North Cape southwards. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
A remarkably distinct plant, easily recognized by the orbicular or broadly ovate 
lamina of the leaf with its broad flat petiole. 
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5. A. lanceolatum 7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 311.—Altogether similar 
to H. glomeratum, but leaves 1-14 in. long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acute or subacute, narrowed into a short winged petiole, glabrous above, 
beneath clothed with white appressed tomentum; margins flat or slightly 
undulate. Heads, florets, and achenes precisely as in H. glomeratwm.— 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 342. Ozothamnus lanceolatus Buch. am 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1 (1870) 88. 
