Senecio. | COMPOSITAE. 1015 
Souta Istanp: Not uncommon from Nelson to Foveaux Strait. STaewart 
IstanD: Extremely plentiful in bogs. Ascends to nearly 5000 ft.; descends almost 
to sea-level in Stewart Island. Decem ber—February. De iting fee ber 
A striking plant, although not so handsome as 8S. scorzoneroides. On the main- 
land of New Zealand it is by no means so abundant as that species, but apparently 
it is the commoner of the two in Stewart Island. 
7. S. seorzoneroides Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 146.—Glandular- 
pubescent in all its parts. Rootstock stout, crowned with the silky bases 
of the fallen leaves. Stem robust, simple, erect, 6-14 in. high, terminating 
in a broad corymb of many flower-heads. Lower leaves rosulate, 3-8 in. ° 
long, 4-2 in. broad, linear-lanceolate to oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate, somewhat thick, 3-9-nerved, margins flat, entire. Cauline 
Jeaves shorter and broader, more acuminate, the upper more glandular- 
pubescent. Corymbs very large and broad ; peduncles often very numerous, 
long, slender, bracteate. Heads large, 1-2 in. diam. or even more; in- 
volucral bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, densely glandular-pubescent. Ray- 
florets long, slender, variable in colour, white to yellow or pale-salmon. 
Pappus of rigid dirty-white unequal scabrid hairs. Achene narrow-linear, 
silky, ribbed.—S. Lyallii var. scorzoneroides 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
339; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 372; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t.. 111. 
SoutH Istanp, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon from the north of the Nelson 
Province southwards to Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island, but most abundant in the 
central and western portions of the Southern Alps. Descends to sea-level or nearly 
So in the sounds of south-west Otago; ascends to quite 5000 ft. in the Southern Alps. 
December—February. >ee Tiamse. 72; SS ov BY. 
One of the most beautiful and charming members of the subalpine flora of New 
Zealand. Very closely allied to S. Lyallii, and in the first edition of this work I followed 
Sir J. D. Hooker in treating it as a variety. But it differs markedly in the greater 
size, broader leaves, and larger heads, which range in colour from white to yellow or 
bright-salmon. In typical S. Lyallii the heads are always yellow. 
8. S. antipodus 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1891) 440 (name 
only).—An erect much-branched annual or biennial herb 1-2 ft. high; stems 
stout, fistulose, 4-4in. diam.; branches spreading, grooved. Leaves. 
membranous, rather succulent, 2-5 in. long, lower narrowed into a petiole, 
upper sessile with broad amplexicaul auricles, deeply and irregularly pinna- 
tifid ; segments few, 1-2 in. long, acute, toothed or lobed or almost pinnatifid, 
glabrous above, mealy-tomentose beneath. Corymbs terminal; peduncles 
slender, bracteate. Heads numerous, discoid, 4-}in. diam.; involucre 
broad, campanulate ; bracts about 20, in 1 series, linear-lanceoiate, acute, 
2-ribbed, margins scarious. Florets all hermaphrodite, very numerous, 
funnel-shaped. Achenes linear-oblong, grooved, glabrous or minutely 
puberulous.—Students’ Fl. (1899) 341; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
372. 
ANTIPODES IsLanD: Abundant over the greater part of the island, 7’. Kirk! 
Cockayne! B. C, Aston! : 
A remarkably distinct species, not closely allied to any of the New Zealand forms. 
Kirk compares it with the Fuegian S. candidans, and no doubt there is a resemblance 
in the inflorescence and discoid heads; but S. candidans has ovate leaves with crenate- 
toothed maryins, widely different in appearance to the deeply pinnatifid leaves of 
S. antipodus. 
S cechleacia B+): 72.: 27 Ghia t 
a Aris 
ae 
