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Var. 6. lanata; tota lana laxa molli floccosa uivea induta. (Ad C. montanam Tasmaniæ accedit.)
H a b . Nortliern and Middle Islands ; abundant^ from the East Cape southward. Var. B. Milford
Sound, Lyall. Var. e. Nelson, Bidwill (on the mountains).
An extremely variable plant. Leaves generally all radical, with only small bracts on the scape, but sometimes
running up the scape, 1-8 inches long, very vai-iable in breadth, petiolate or nearly sessile, blunt and apiculate,
obovate or spathulate, quite smooth or pubescent, or covered with scattered hairs, or woolly (in var. c). Scape 4
inches to 14 foot high, covered with scattered bracts, smooth, pubescent, or woolly, stout or slender. Globular
lieads of capitula 4 inch to 2 inches broad, round, soft, dotted with the yellow florets.—Mr. Bidwill says of var. e
that the smeU is disagreeable, and like Rhubarb.
Gen. X II. CASSINIA, Br.
Capitulum pauci(9-12)-ilorum ; flosculis omnibus hermaphroditis tubulosis v. paucissimis ambitu
foemineis angustis. Receptaculum angustum, paleaceum ; paleis distinctis, lineaiibus, floribus immixtis,
apicibus plerumque radiantibus albidis. Involucri sgnamæ mnltiseriatæ, scariosæ, exteriores imbricatæ,
breves, iuteriores sæpissime elongatæ, apicibus albidis radiantibus. Stigmata obtusa, liispidula. Antheroe
inclusæ, basi bisetæ. Achenium ohovatum, eiostve. 1-2-serialis; setis plurimis filiformibus, apice
incrassatis aut penicillatis.
Branching shrubs, with small, evergreen or rusty-coloured, harsh leaves, and panicles of many white flowers.
Heads small, nine- to twelve-flowered ; flowers all tubular, hermaphrodite, or with a few slender female ones at the
circumference. Receptacle very small, with narrow, linear, white-tipped scales, like the inner ones of the involucre,
scattered amongst the florets. Scales of the involucre numerous, scarious, generally pubescent, outer imbricated,
inner vnih. white radiating tips. Anthers with two bristles at the base. Achenium obovate, blunt. Pappus of one
or two series of slender, soft hairs, which are pilose or thickened at the tips.—A rather extensive New Holland and
Tasmanian genus. (Named in honour of M. Henri Cassini, an eminent French botanist.)
1. Cassinia leptophylla, B r.; frutex ramulis fastigiatis incano-pubescentibus, foliis bneari-ligulatis
confertis (ericoideis) patulis v. recurvis obtusis marginibus recurvis utrinque v. subtus incanis, corymbis
terminalibus, capitulis parvis, involucris turbinatis 6- 8-floris glabratis v. tomentosis, acheniis puberubs.
Br. in Linn. Soc. Trans. DC. Prodr. Calea, Forster. C. cinerea, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
\ a r . /S; fobis paulo latioribus superne glaberrimis vernicosis.
Var. 7 ; fobis paulo longioribus supeme glaberrimis subtus ramubsque tomento fulvo viscido tectis,
involucris glaberrimis anguste obconicis.
Ha b . Nortliern and Middle Islands; especially on the east coast, growing in sandy places,.
Solander, Forster, Sinclair, etc. Var. /3. Port Underwood, Lyall. Var. 7 . Canterbury ?
Very variable in size (10-16 feet high) and woodiness of the stems and branches, which arc covered with white
doivn. Leaves small, heath-like, very numerous, uniform in size, 14-3 lines long, crowded on the slender branches,
spreading or recurved, linear, blunt, hoary on both sides or below only, with recurved margins. Corymbs terminal,
of many white, obconical heads, with white rays formed of the inner involucral scales, and the scales of the receptacle.
Involucre longer than the leaves, imbricate; outer scales whitish, smooth or pubescent, six- to eight-flowered.
Achenia smooth.—Very nearly allied to the following, and best distinguished from it by the narrow smaber leaves,
and smaber heads of flowers. Var. 8 approaches C. retorta in the larger leaves, and var. y has the yebow and glutinous
foliage and young leaves of C. Vauvilliersii.
2. Cassinia A. Cunn.; robusta, ramis fasciculatis fobosis dense tomentosis, foliis plerumque
recurvis obovato-oblougis linearibusve obtusis superne incanis v. glabratis subtus pube appressa dense
vestitis marginibus recurvis, corymbis terminalibus 2- 8-cephaIis, involucris turbinatis tomentosis radiatis.
DC. Prodr.
I I a b . Northern Island. Wangaroa Bay, Auckland, etc., generally near tbe coast, Frazer, Cunningham,
etc.
Very nearly allied indeed to C. leptophylla, as stated in the description of that plant ; but more robust, with
larger, broader, more obovate, and more constantly recurved leaves, densely tomeutose below. Coi-ymbs of few
(three to eight) heads, with very woolly peduncles. Heads of flowers larger than in 0. leptophylla, j -4 inch long,
broadly turbinate, woolly, with eight to ten florets.
3. Cassinia Vauvilliersii, Hook. fil. ; ramubs robustis fastigiatis fobosis sulcatis fobisque subtus tomento
fulvo appresso dense vestitis, fobis bneari-oblongis obovatisve obtusis v. retusis marginibus revolutis
superne glabratis costa subtus prominula, corymbis terminalibus polycepbaUs tomentosis, capitubs radiatis.
Ozothamnus, Homh. et Jacq. Voy. au Foie Sud. t. 5. FL Antaret. p . 29.
H a b . Northern Island; common on tbe mountains, Bidwill, eto. Middle and Southern Islands; frequent
on the mountains aud west coast, BidwUl, Lyall.
An erect, dense sbrnb, 6-10 feet high, witb fasciculate branches, which are furrowed and covered with a closely
appressed, buff-coloured tomentum, which also clothes the under surface of the leaves. Leaves coriaceous, much
larger than in tbe two previous species, 4-4 inch long, spreading or reemwed, decm-rent on tbe stem, linear-obovate,
oblong, or spathulate, bhmt or retuse, smooth or a httle pubescent above; margins reemwed. Corymbs terminal,
of many (ten to forty) closely-packed white beads, on tomentose peduncles. Heads obconic, with tomentose,
imbricating involucral scales, of which the inner have white spreading tips. Florets eight to ten.—This plant was
originally published as an Ozothamnus from Lord Auckland’s Group, where it is very abundant. It so very closely
resembles the C. cuneifolia, A. Cunn. (in DC. Prodr.), of Mount Webington, in Tasmania, that were that plant a
true Cassinia I shoidd possibly have united them, but the latter having no paleæ on the receptacle amongst the
flowers, it must be referred to Ozothamnus.
Gen. X III. OZOTHAMNUS, Br.
Omnia Cassiniæ, sed receptaculum epaleaceum. Flores foeminei speciebus Novæ Zelandiæ 0.
This genus so closely resembles the former, that it requires some care to distinguish them ; the absence of any
paleæ amongst the florets characterizes this. All the species are Austraban and Tasmanian, except those of New
Zealand ; many are very strongly scented. I have never found any female flowers in the New Zealand species.
(Name from o^a>, to he scented, and 6ap.voi, a bush)
§ a. Capitula corymbose. Leaves spreading, petiolate.
1. Ozothamnus glomeratus, Plook. fil. ; frutex, ramis tortis laxe foliatis, ramubs incano-tomeiitosis,
folus spai'sis petiolatis ovato-rotundatis apiculatis planis subtus dense nivco-lanatis, corymbis congestis
glomeratis axillaribus terminalibusque tomentosis, involucri squamis scariosis. Swammerdammia glomerata,
Raoul, Choix de Plantes,p. 20. t. 16.
PIa b . Northern and Middle Islands; on diy bills, from tbe Bay of Islands {Cunningham) to Otago,
A bush, with slender, spreading, flexuose, twiggy branches, the top ones wooUy. Leaves scattered, 4-1 incli
long with the petiole, broadly ovate-rotundate, blunt, with a little point, bright green and smooth above, white with
soft wool below. Heads crowded into dense rounded corymbs, which are terminal, or sessile and axillary, 4-1 inch
in diameter. Involucral scales veiy delicate and byabne, woolly at the base.—This is a very distinct plant, easily to
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