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16. Senecio (Brachyglottis) elmgni/oliiis, Hook. fil. ; fruticosus, totus (nisi pagina superiore folii) dense
appresse sericeo-tomentosus, foliis petiolatis coriaceis ovato- v. elliptico-oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis,
racemis terminalibus elongatis ramis involucrisque molliter lanuginosis, capitulis oblongis, flosculis
omnibus tubulosis, aclieniis sulcatis pubescentibus, pappo barbellato. Tab. XLI.
H ab. Northern Island. Ruahine mountains, '
This plant differs markedly from the former in the more slender branches, less woolly and silky shining
covering of these, of the petioles, and under surface of the leaves, in the shape of the leaves and in the racemose, not
corymbose inflorescence, which bears much fewer heads.—A shrub 6-8 feet high, diffusely branched. Leaves 3-5
inches long, obovate-oblong or lanceolate, blunt, shining on the upper surface. Racemes as long as the leaves, terminal.
Head without a ray, 4 inch long, densely woolly, the wool not appressed. Flotcers all tubular. Achenia
furrowed and pubescent. Hairs of the pappus rough with bristles tbrougbout their length.—P late XLI. Fig. 1,
involucre and receptacle ; 2, floret; 3, pappus; 4, stamen;—all magnified.
17. Senecio (Brachyglottis) Bidwillii, Plook. fil. ; fruticulus robustus, totus (nisi pagina superiore
folii) dense lanatus, foliis (parvis crassissimis concavis) breve petiolatis ramulo articulatis late elliptico-oblongis
utrinque obtusis enerviis superne reticulatim venosis nitidis politis, corymbis terminalibus, capitulis
molliter lanatis campauulatis, flosculis radii tubulosis, acheniis glaberrimis elongatis sulcatis, pappo ut
in priore.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. Mount Hikurangi and Ruahine range, Colenso. Mountains
near Nelson, alt. 6000 feet, BidvAll.
A small, vei’y robust, alpine shrub, densely woolly. Leaves extremely thick, hard and leathery, 4-14 inch long,
on short stout (rarely elongated) petioles, which are Jointed on to the branches, elliptic-oblong, the nerves wholly
concealed by wool below, upper surface very concave, glossy, smooth, polished and reticulated. Corymbs terminal,
of many heads ; branches slender or stout, short or elongated, densely woolly. Heads 4 inch long, similar to those of
S. eloeagnifolius. Achenia quite smooth, furrowed.
18. Senecio sciadophilus, Raoul; scandens, ramis gracilibus elongatis flexuosis ramulisque pubescentibus
v. glabratis,'foliis sparsis petiolatis rotundatis ovato-rotundatisve grosse dentatis utrinque glabratis
(siccitate nigris), capitulis racemosis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusve, involucri foliolis paucis puberulis,
achenio glaberrimo sulcato, pappi pilis albidis scaberulis. Raoul, Choix de Flantes, p . 21. t. 18.
H a b . Middle Island. Akaroa, in v?ooàs, Raoul. FL February.
A climbing shi-ub, with slender, flexuose, pendent, smooth or pubescent branches, and terminal or axillary
racemes of few capitula, which have long slender pedicels. Leaves petiolate, 1-2 inches long, ovate or rounded, very
coarsely toothed, smooth or with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces. Capitula as in S. perdicioides, but the
ligulæ are longer and revolute.—Very nearly allied to S. perdicioides, but distinct, especially in the rambling scandent
habit, slender stems and branches, broader, more coarsely toothed leaves, slender, nodding panicles and longer h'gulæ
to the flowers of the ray. It has been found by M. Raoul only.
Gen. XIX. MICROSERIS, ]J(yn.
Capitulum multiflorum ; flosculis omnibus hermaphroditis, ligulatis. Involucrum anguste campanulatum
; squamis linearibus, I-seriatis, basi squamulis abbreviatis bracteolatis. Receptaculum nudum, alveolatum.
Achenium, lineari-elongatum, glaberrimum, striatum, erostre. Fappus 1-serialis, subpaleaceus ;
paleis glaberrimis, basi dilatatis,. superne in setam rigidam scaberulam productis.
Tbe only New Zealand species is a small smooth herb (with milky juice, I believe), 2 inches to a foot long,
with numerous, rather flaccid, linear leaves and scapes, that bear one yellow head. Leaves 1-6 inches long, linear,
quite entire, toothed or pinnatifid, very in-egularly cut. Scapes longer or shorter than the leaves, often downy above.
Heads 4-7 inch long. Involucre narrow, campanulate, of one series of linear, erect, fleshy scales, with membranous
borders ; surrounded at the base by two series of much smaller, ovate, acuminate scales. Florets all Ligulate, yellow,
with narrow spreading ligulæ and short tubes. Achenia linear, quite smooth. Fappus pale yellow-brown, of
one series of slender, smooth bristles, expanding below and becoming paleaceous. Receptacle smooth, glabrous,
pitted.—This plant is common to Tasmania and South Australia, vai-ying extremely in both countries, sometimes
attaining a height of nearlj* 2 feet, with leaves as broad as the finger : these vary extremely in amount of lobing,
being entire, or pinnatifid, with long, narrow, spreading segments an inch long. The only other species is also a very
variable and quite similar plant, found on the west coast of Chili ; it differs from this only in the broader hairs of
the pappus, which are quite paleaceous. (Name from piKpos, small, and a-epis, a lettuce)
1. Microseris Hook. fil. ; foliis anguste linearibus integerrimis sinuato-dentatis pinnatifidisve
lobis elongatis, pappi setis basi solum anguste paleaceis. Scorzonera scapigera, Forst. Frodr. Banks et
Solander, 3ÍSS. et Ic. M.on(írmQs'La-rvronoi\,Nob.inLond.Journ.Bot.v.9.p.\24. Microseris pygmæa,
Raoul, Choix de Flantes, p . 45. non Hook, et Arn. Leontodon lactucoides, Banks et Sol. 3ÍSS. et le.
I I a b . Northern and Middle Islands ; frequent in many places, especially along the east coast, from the
Thames river southward, Banks and Solander, etc.
In the ‘ London Journal of Botany’ I proposed making this plant a subgenus of Scorzonera, to which it had
been referred, having failed to reduce it to any genus of this difficult tribe described in De Candolle ; it is, however,
truly congeneric with the Microseris of Chili, as rightly determined by M. Raoul, but the species is quite a
different one.
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Gen. XX. PICRIS, L.
Capitulum multiflorum ; flosculis omnibus ligulatis. squamæ imbricatæ, exteriores patulæ.
Receptacîilumn\ikxxn. Acheni sulcata, jugis apice transverse rugosis. 1-2-serialis ; pilis plumosis.
Tall, erect, leafy herbs, with milky juice, of winch one European species also inhabits various parts of India,
Austraha, Tasmania and New Zealand, vaiying considerably, especially in hairiness, in all places, being sometimes
nearly smooth, at others very hispid with stiff spreading bristles. Stems 2-4 feet high. Radical leaves petiolate,
linear-oblong, blunt, more or less sinuate, toothed aud hispid ; cauline smaller, sessile, linear, acuminate. Panicle
loosely branched ; peduncles long and slender, often quite smooth ; pedicels bracteolate. Involucres inch long,
campanulate ; scales in two to tliree series, hispid and pubescent, the outer shorter, often recm-ved, inner long, forming
one row, acuminate. Flowers all ligulate, yellow ; rays spreading. Pappus of one series of fine white feathery soft
hairs. Achenia contracted above, turgid below, furrowed, the ridges tuberculate.—The other species of this genus
are chiefly natives of the South of Em-ope. (Name from mKpos, hitter, as is the juice of this and many others of
the tribe.)
1. Picris kieracioides, L. ; plus minusve liispido-pilosa, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis sinuatis
dentatisve caulinis basi semiamplexicaulibus, capitulis corymbosis, aclieniis superne constrictis striatis transverse
rugulosis. Linn. Sp. Fl. A. Cunn. Frodr.
Var. /3. glabrata. P. atteiiuata, A. Cunn. Frod/r.
H a b . Nortliern Island. Dry hills about the Bay of Islands, etc., Cunningham, etc.
I cannot distinguish this from the common European plant, which I have also gathered in the Himalaya
Mountains at 9000 feet elevation. The var. 8 is only a rather more slender and smooth state of the plant.