Helichrysum. | COMPOSITAE. 985 
long, cylindric. Involucral scales in many series; outer broadly oblong 
or obovate, tomentose on the back; inner oblong or linear-oblong, 
scariose, brownish at the top. Florets 15-25, only seen in an immature 
state, but apparently all hermaphredite. Pappus-hairs numerous, slender, 
slightly thickened towards the tip and papillose, smooth at the base. 
Achenes cblong, glabrous. s«« owls 
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River, and at Puffer’s Creek, 2500 ft., Cockayne! ' +t? ‘+ ¢ | 
Apparently rare and local, and only known from the two localities quoted above. 
Its subscandent habit is peculiar, and unique in the genus. But the few flower-heads 
that I have had an opportunity of dissecting are very immature ; and the plant may 
not belong to Helichrysum. 
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Sour Isranp: Canterbury—Waimakariri River basin, scrub by the Poulter / 
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9. H. mierophyllum BS ad Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 11 (1873) 311.— 
A small excessively branched shrub 6-36in. high. Stems stout, gnarled 
and twisted; ultimate branchlets very slender, closely packed, :'5—q¥¢ 1n- 
diam., more or less tomentose, irregularly tetragonous. Leaves embedded 
in white wool, minute, 3in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
thick and coriaceous, concave and densely woolly on the inner face, green 
and polished and more or less keeled on the back. Heads terminal, 
solitary, sessile, turbinate, $in. diam. ; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, scarious. Florets 20-25, yellow; females in 1 series, 
few. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs not thickened at the tip.—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 312; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 342. Ozothamnus 
(1864) 146. see Stl. rat Dyck + ttantpe PKs. belee wo celica be fs om &. 
microphyllus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 134, t. 354; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
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Sour Istanp: Rocky places in the mountains ‘of Marlborough, Nelson, and 
North Canterbury, not uncommon, 1500-4000 ft. February—March. 
This is the species as originally described and figured by Hooker in the * Flora 
Novae-Zelandiae.”’ In the Handbook and in all later publications (including my 
own Manual) the conception of the species was enlarged to include several stouter 
forms intermediate in character between H. microphyllum and H. Selago. I now 
agree with Dr. Cockayne (Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlv (1913) 255) in including these in 
H. Selago ! 
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( HACK.) see Trans. £75 157 ns 
10. H. Selago.Benth. and. Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii (1873) 311.—A small 
much-branched shrub 6-15 in. high; branchlets stout, crowded, with the 
leaves }-din. diam. Leaves minute, closely appressed to the branch, 
densely imbricating in about 5 or 6 series, 74-3 in. long, ovate-triangular, 
obtuse or subacute, thick and coriaceous in the upper part, membranous 
below, concave and woolly on the inner face, polished and obtusely keeled 
on the back. Heads terminal, solitary, sessile, }in. diam.; involucral 
bracts in 3 series, linear-oblong; the outer obtuse, tomentose at the base ; 
the inner subacute, coriaceous below, with short secarious spreading tips. 
Florets 35-45; females few, in 1 series. Achene puberulous. Pappus- 
hairs few, not thickened at the tips.—TZ. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 312; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 343. Ozothamnus Selago Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 332; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 147. 
Var. tubereulata Cheesem. n. var.— Leaves almost hidden by white tomentum, 
the centre of the leaf alone showing as a polished tubercle. 
Var. acuta Cheesem. n. var.—Leaves curved, decidedly acute or even apiculate. 
Of this there seems to be two forms—a, with the leaves in many series and almost 
glabrous; and 6, with the leaves woolly as in the type, and usually quadrifarious. 
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