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cobwebby on both surfaces or on the lower surface only. Corymbs terminal, 
usually lax. Heads few or many, }-$in. diam., campanulate ; involucral 
bracts linear-oblong, acute or acuminate. Rays short, revolute. Achenes 
slender, grooved, silky or hispid—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 160; 7. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 342; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 375. 
Nortx Istanp: Usually on cliffs near the sea. Bay of Islands, Colenso ; Kast Cape, 
Colenso; near Napier, Bishop Williams! A. Hamilton! Cape Kidnappers, Colenso, 
T. Kirk! W aipawa, Petrie! Patangata, T'ryon!/ Cape Turnagain, B. C. Aston! 
Novem ber—January. 
16. S. Heetori Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. v (1873) 348; vi (1874) t. 23. 
—An erect branching shrub 6-12 ft. high; branches stout, spreading, 
tomentose. Leaves crowded near the tips of the branches, 6—12 in. long, 
2-41n. broad, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate cr narrow oblong- 
ovate, acute, narrowed to the base, membranous, scaberulous above, thinly 
clothed with white cottony tomentum beneath, acutely toothed, pinnatifid 
or pinnate for a short distance at the very base; petiole very short. 
Corymbs large, lax, terminal, much branched, often 1 ft. or more across ; 
peduncles and pedicels clothed with short stiff glandular pubescence. Heads 
large, 1-21n. diam., broadly campanulate ; involucral bracts in 2 series, 
outer lanceolate, inner broader and oblong-lanceolate, acute; margins 
broad, membrancus. Ray-florets 8-12 ; ligules broad, spreading, white. 
Disc-florets numerous. Achenes linear, ercoved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs 
rigid, scabrid.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 344; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 876; Jl. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 112. 
Side TIstanp: Nelson—Collingwood, Hector, W. T. L. Travers ; between Takaka and 
Riwaka, 7". Kirk ; sources of the Takaka, Upper Motueka and its ‘tributaries, fife 3S 
Upper Buller Valley, McGregor, Hector! T. Kirk! Westland—Valley of the Gvéy. 
T. Kark. 250-3500 ft. December—February. 
One of the finest species of the genus, well marked off from any other by a small 
portion of the very base of the leaf being pinnatifid or pinnate, all the remainder being 
dentate. The heads are sometimes as much as 24 in. diam. 
17. S. Kirkii Hook. f. ex T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 344.—An erect 
perfectly smooth and glabrous branching shrub 6-12 /ft. high; branches 
stout, brittle. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 2-5 im. long, 4-2 in. 
broad, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate to oblong-ovate or rhomboid-ovate, 
acute or obtuse, entire or sinuate-dentate, rather fleshy, narrowed into a 
short slender petiole or cuneate at the base. Corymbs large, often much 
branched, 4-12in. diam. or more; _ branches pCa lower bracts 
foliaceous. Heads numerous, large, campanulate, 14-2 in. diam. ; involucral 
bracts in 2 series, linear-oblong, acute, margins Bie Be "Ray-florets 
few; ligules long, white, spreading, #-lin. long. Dhsc-florets with a 
campanulate 5-toothed limb. Achenes linear, grooved, glabrous, slightly 
expanded and thickened at the tip. Pappus-hairs rigid, scabrid.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 376. 8S. glastifolius Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 
147, t. 39; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 161 (not of Linn. f.). Solidage arborescens 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 435. (not - ford.) 
ce: '9tb: 64h rreohed eo BEN asd b Contes 
Norra Istanp: Common in hilly and wooded districts from the North Cape to 
Wellington. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
A very remarkable and beautiful species. The flower-heads are often so abundantly 
produced as to conceal the leaves, the multitude of snow-white rays then rendering the 
plant conspicuous from afar. In the northern forests it is often epiphytic on the distorted 
trunks of the rata (Metrosideros robusta). In Kauri forests it is invariably terrestrial. 
