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sessile with a broad toothed stem-clasping base, coriaceous, coarsely and 
irregularly toothed or lobed or pinnatifid, lobes sinuate-dentate, upper 
surface glabrous or cobwebby, beneath more or less clothed with loose 
white cottony tomentum. Corymbs terminal, dense; pedicels slender, 
cottony. Heads din. long; involucral bracts 12-14, usually with a few 
minute ones at the base, narrow linear-lanceolate, woolly below. Florets 
30-40 ; females much the most numerous. Achenes linear-oblong, grooved, 
hairy, crowned by a callous ring.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 142 ; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 157; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii (1866) 659; ZT. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 334; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 364. Senecio argutus 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 258 ; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 466; Raoul 
Chovx (1846) 45. 
NortTH AND SoutuH I[snanps, Stewart Istand: Abundant from the Three Kings 
Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—lebruary. 
Also in Australia and 'Tasmania. 
A common plant, varying much in stature, degree of pubescence, and the extent 
to which the leaves are toothed or divided. 
3. E. seaberula Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 157.—A slender erect 
annual 1-2 ft. high; stem grooved, simple or branched above, rough with 
short white hispid hairs. Leaves 1-3 in. long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse, lower petiolate, upper sessile with small stem-clasping auricles, 
coarsely and irregularly toothed or pinnatifid, lobes acute, again sharply 
toothed, both surfaces rough with short hispid hairs. Corymbs terminal, 
lax; pedicels slender, glabrous. Heads +in. long; involucral bracts 
about 12, glabrous, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, tips often recurved. 
Florets 20-30 ; females the more numerous. Achenes linear-oblong, grooved, 
hispid, crowned by a small callous ring —T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 334 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 365. E. hispidula Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i 
(1853) 142 (not of DC.). EH. pumila J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii 
(1881) 338. Senecio hispidulus A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 462 (not of 
A. Rich.). 
Nortu AND SoutsH I[sLanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: Not uncommon 
from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 1500 ft. November—February. 
\ hab.) 
4. E. quadridentata .DC. Prodr. vi (1837) 295.—An erect herb 1-3 ft. 
high, usually much branched from a hard and woody base, everywhere 
more or less clothed with white cottony tomentum. Leaves 2-6 in. long, 
linear-elongate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, lower sometimes petiolate, 
upper sessile, with or without small auricles at the base, entire or with 
a few distant teeth; margins revolute. Corymbs terminal, broad, lax. 
Heads 4in. long, involucral bracts 12-14, narrow linear-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, glabrous or cottony, usually with a few minute ones at the base. 
Florets about 30, females the more numerous. Achenes linear-oblong, 
grooved and angled, hairy, abruptly contracted towards the tip, crowned 
by a callous ring.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 142; Handb. N.Z. FI. 
(1864) 157; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii (1866) 660; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
334; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 365. Senecio quadridentatus Lab. 
Pl. Nov. Holl. 11 (1806) 48, t. 194; A. Cumn. Precur. (1838) n. 461; Raoul 
Choix (1846) 45. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps, Stewart Istanpd, CHATHAM IsLANDS: Abundant 
from the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
November—January. Also in Australia and Tasmania. 
