988 "COMPOSITAE. [Cassinia, 
above, fulvous or white and strongly costate beneath; margins recurved. 
Heads very numerous, in terminal rounded corymbs, shortly pedicelled, 
turbinate, }-Lin. long; involucral bracts in several series; the outer 
shorter, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, tomentose or glabrate, often 
reddish towards the tips; inner linear-oblong, with short white obtuse 
radiating tips. Scales among the florets numerous. Florets 8-15. Pappus- 
hairs thickened at the tips.—-Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 145; 7. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 315; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 345. Ozothamnus 
Vauvilliersii Homb. et Jacq. Bot. Voy. Astrol. et Zeél. (1846) 38, £. 5; Hook. f. 
Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 29. Olearia xanthophylla Col. on. Lrans. N.Z. Inst. 
See Ser entinar GA. Trans £6 -1426:%2 
(* Var. rubra’ <Involucral bracts red, glabrous. —C. rubra Buch. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xix (1887) 216; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 315. 
al (da ilo) Var. albida/7. ‘Kirk I.c.— Branchlets and leaves beneath clothed with whitish 
é tomentum. Leaves linear-spathulate, strongly costate beneath. C. albida Cockayne 
whe in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896)_374. boner ClarAance St +7 Rs, Taaas Cos: 16s 
NorRTH AND Sour ienanoe, eae IsLAND, AUCKLAND ISLANDS: Not uncommon 
from the East Cape and Taupo southwards. Sea-level to 4500 ft. December-— 
January. Var. rubra: Upper Wanganui River, Buchanan! Var. albida: Marlborough 
—Kaikoura Mountains, extending in a westerly direction to the Clarence River and 
Lake Tennyson, and northwards to the middle portion of the Wairau Valley. 
A very variable plant. JI am unable to maintain Buchanan’s C. ruéra as a distinct 
species. Var. albida has more important points of difference, and at one time I was 
inclined. to agree with Dr. Cockayne in definitely separating if from C. Vauvilliersit. 
More recent study has led me to take the opposite view. And if I rightly understand 
Dr. Cockayne’s remarks in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1] (1918) 168, he also is inclined to reduce 
it to the position of a variety. z 
4. C. amoena Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix (1897) 591.—A small 
round-topped densely branched shrub 1-2ft. high; branches stout, 
furrowed, the younger ones clothed with greyish-white tomentum. Leaves 
close-set, spreading or suberect, +-%in. long, narrow linear-obovate or 
linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous 
above, clothed with dense white tomentum beneath; margins recurved. 
Heads numerous, in rounded terminal corymbs, narrcw-turbinate, shortly 
pedicelled, #-tin. long; involucral bracts in several series; the outer 
shorter, ovate-eblong, obtuse, tomentose; the imner linear-cblong, with 
short white radiating tips. Florets few, 4-6; scales of the receptacle 
usually absent or rarely 1 or 2 present. Achene silky, with a thickened 
areole at the base. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—T7. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 315; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 346; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) 
a t. 107. 
Norru IstaNnp: Cliffs near the North Cape, 7'..F. C., W..R. B. Oliver! December- 
January. 
; Closely allied to C. Vawvilliersti, some forms of which approach it in habit. It 
can easily be distinguished, however, by the smaller size, narrower heads, fewer florets 
, (usually from 4-6), and particularly by the almost total absence of scales among the 
florets. ©. retorta and C. leptophylla are at once separated by the different habit and 
| much larger size, smaller leaves, broader heads with more numerous florets, and by the 
i numerous receptacular scales. 
5. C. fulvida Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 145.—A slender erect 
much-branched shrub 2-6ft. high; branches. glutinous, clothed with 
fulvous tomentum. Leaves close-set, spreading or suberect, 4-4 in. long, 
lmear or narrow linear-spathulate or linear-obovate, obtuse, narrowed to 
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