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1014 COMPOSITAE. [ Senecio. 
rounded or slightly cordate at the base or narrowed into the petiole, mem- 
branous or subcoriaceous, entire or crenulate, upper surface rugose or almost 
flat, more or less covered with short stifl bristles, beneath glabrate or 
sparingly clothed with white or brownish tomentum; petioles long or 
short, usually woolly. Scapes 1-12 in. high, simple or branched, cottony or 
elandular-pubescent, rarely glabrate; bracts few, small, acute. Heads 1 
to many, = lin. diam. ; involucral bracts tomentose or olabrate. Achenes 
linear, slabrous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 159; Tf. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 338; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 371. §. Traversii F. Muell. 
an Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vil (1861) 154. 
vie. olabentas T. Kirk l.c.—kLeaves broadly sbi feet beneath, sparingly | 
setose above. See Phew Se Ae bel, Soe CH 
Var. angustatus 7’. Kirk 1.c.— Leaves linear- oblon®. pee banded Be subacute. 
‘Soutn Istann, Oa: ArT ISLAND : Not uncommon in mountain districts throughouel 
Aseends to 5000 ft. - descends almost to sea-level in Stewart Jsland. Decem ber— 
February. Var. Siete : Wangapeka Valley, 7. 7. C.; Cass River, Cockayne 
and Foweraker. Var. angustatus: Buller Gorge, Mount Rochfort, Mount Frederic, 
W. Townson! Arthur’s Pass, 7’. F. C., Cockayne! 
Very closely allied to S. lagopus, but in its usual state can generally be distin- 
guished by the smaller size and more membranous leaves, which are often quite 
glabrous beneath, seldom tomentose. 
5. §. southlandicus Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvu (1915) 118.— 
Rootstock stout, usually clothed with pale-buff or purplish tomentum. 
Leaves all radical, crowded, spreading or suberect; blade 2—5in. long, 
broadly oblong or almost orbicular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cordate 
or truncate at the base, membranous or subcoriaceous ; glabrate or slightly 
silky-tomentose above, sometimes sparsely mixed with stoutish bristles ; 
usually purplish beneath, glabrate or slightly silky-tomentose ; petiole 
long, silky-tomentose. Peduncles or scapes 5-12 in. long, branched, more 
or less silky-tomentose below, sometimes glandular-pilose. Heads 5-12, 
41+ in. diam. ; involucral scales linear, obtuse ; margins purplish, glabrate 
centre tomentose, often glandular. Achenes linear, glabrous. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Open tussock country to the south of the Clutha River, 
not uncommon, Cockayne / Bee Petrie! Probably has a much wider range. 
December—February. ~ 949 
This would probably have ae hotel treated as a form of S. bellidioides. 
6. §. Lyallii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 146.—A leafy herb 1-13 ft. 
high. or more, usually glandular-pubescent or almost villous, rarely glabrate. 
Rootstock thick, crowned with long silky hairs. Stem stout or slender, 
simple, erect, terminating in a broad corymb of pny flower-heads. Leaves 
numerous, quite entire; lower 2-10in. long, j4-+in. broad, linear or 
narrow-linear, acute or acuminate, contracted or petiolate ‘above the 
sheathing villous base, 1-5-nerved; cauline gradually becoming smaller, 
sessile, amplexicaul, tapering from the base to the apex. Corymbs usually 
large and broad ; peduncles 1-5 in. long, slender, simple, bracteate. Heads 
large, 1-25im. diam.; involucral bracts in | series, linear, pubescent or 
glabrate. Ray-florets 4-lin. long, yellow, spreading. Achenes linear, 
silky, ribbed. Pappus- haihs unequal, rigid, scabrid.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fl, (1864) 160; TZ. Kirk Students’ FI. (1899) 339; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 372. 
